Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Was my 2019 prediction about Windows correct?”.
On june 21st 2019, you predicted that microsoft windows would be free in three years. Do you have an update on this prediction? Post pandemic, i mean it was sort of uh. It was sort of a cheat of a prediction, because functionally using windows does not have to cost money. Microsoft has eased off of their piracy protections to such a degree that it is pretty clear that they don’t care.
It’S also really funny like. If you, google, buy windows 11 in the sidebar, oh, not even sidebar, the last time i did this was in the sidebar right here, 23 from turnkey point. I’M sure they could get this taken down, but they don’t.
The reality of it is microsoft. Wants the whole world running on windows that is far far more important to them than collecting a hundred dollars from custom pc builders? They want windows to be the standard so that companies like hp and dell will buy licenses in enormous vault. You got to understand. They want to sell business licenses, they don’t care about selling them to you. You got it. You got to understand guys the the custom pc space is this.
Is this tiny splinter in the eye of these companies? We are the loudest most obnoxious minority, we’re lucky. They bother listening to us at all because from a business standpoint we don’t matter also such an obscene percentage of people in this space, just pirated anyways, yes, so like like we suck, but in my i think my theory, my theory, for why we’re getting a new Prediction is that we’re influencers or the recommenders exactly everyone watching this show right now is an influencer. It’S very likely that if you’re watching this, you are like the tech person for your family. So if microsoft or intel or amd or nvidia mess with you too bad.
Well, you’re going to stop recommending their stuff and that multiplication effect. It ain’t worth it. It ain’t worth it. So no microsoft hasn’t officially gone free to play with windows 11, but i’m not backing down.
It’S clearly happening, there’s more and more ads and uh. More and more ads and adjacent services included with windows. You look at the way that um, you know, xbox game pass is advertised. When you do a fresh windows install, they are clearly on the trajectory.
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