Enshitification Comes.
Can’t wait until the Windows OS starts demanding you have a credit card on file in order to function.
Oh that is in the pipeline.
Assisted a man with new iPhone yesterday. Can’t download free apps or anything from the appstore without a working card on file.
Disgusting.
Just makes Linux look even better.
I don’t think many of you read this article and it shows
This is a terribly written article, full of needlessly convoluted sentences and long paragraphs that make it hard to read.
Jesus the nickel and diming just keeps going. What’s next? A fee per core to save in notepad?
Although hotpatching has been available for the longest time for Windows Server Datacenter: Azure Edition, and it will continue without charge, these security updates for Windows Server 2025 users will cost $1.50 per CPU core per month. Yes, you read that right, per core.
So its not being charged for everyone, only those not running on Azure (which is a huge number of folks). However, Microsoft giving preferential terms to MS software running in Azure instead of elsewhere isn’t new. They’ve been doing this for Windows and MS SQL server for years though Azure Hybrid Benefit.
