This is genious, whoever came up with it!

Imagine doing that in pharma also: you pay a regular monthly fee for the side effects of the medical drugs you took (caused by the pharma company, not by you).

This is literally the plot context of a recent Black Mirror episode. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30127325/

> Windows Server 2025

Over on the consumer side, I'd rather pay $1.50 to permanently regain full control over when the computer I own reboots for updates.

(Yes yes, insert Use Linux Joke here.)

I would hate to be the Microsoft account manager having to explain this fee to a CIO. Especially when Linux kernel livepatch is free.

Goes hand in hand with the paid Microsoft Extended Security Updates service for "legacy" operating systems.

Get ready to see a lot more hotfixes...

> Get ready to see a lot more hotfixes...

Will they actually fix Windows bugs ? They don't do this for suported Windows versions.

Serious question: what windows does/does better than Linux that can explain be ready to pay for using their server softwares?

Pretty ballsy for Microsoft to charge a subscription fee for a feature that Linux has had for decades.

I don't expect this to go well for them.

incentivizing themselves for building a broken system, you can do anything if you have a majority of market share

Chiselers.

Obligatory "I'm gonna write myself a new minivan this afternoon"