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Microsoft's Windows 12 is expected to be even worse than Windows 11, functioning as a paid "subscription service" or forcing users to watch ads in order to use it without paying (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by RedArcher@hexbear.net to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 months ago

Source?

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

Well if it's from a hexbear user you know it's gotta be true.

[-] lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

I've seen this opinion a few times so far about hexbear, so i gotta ask... wtf is hexbear.net? Is it like the equivalent of 4chan?

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 6 points 5 months ago

One of the bigger communist instances, like Lemmygrad.

They are infamous half because they are a big instance with a shared fringe worldview that is anathems to liberal democracy, so when something pops up in their feed, cultures clash.

The other half is that at least some of their users do like to use alts to "agitate" which is mostly trolling.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Just remember youll only get one side of the story since most big instances blacklisted them.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

Pretty much but they claim to be 'communists' (though realistically they solely support the Chinese and Russian governments and never actually discuss communism as an economic policy) and isolated themselves from the rest of the fediverse for years. Last year they finally federated with everyone and were quickly defederated by most large instances because they're absolutely insufferable trolls who do nothing but fling feces and brigade in every post.

[-] simple@lemm.ee 23 points 5 months ago

This is just speculation based off of a rumor that was never confirmed.

[-] RedArcher@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

Multiple other news outlets report the same information. Even if this remains unconfirmed for now, it is certainly not unreasonable considering the state of Windows 11.

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Why not post something with the tiniest bit of credibility, then?

A bunch of completely unreliable nonsense posts from completely unreliable nonsense people does not add up to evidence of any kind.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Speculation based on trends of Microsoft's shitty behavior over the span of their existence.

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 months ago

Remember when they said Windows 10 will be the last version? lol

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

Didn't they try to call it Windows X at the time?

[-] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

YES I will spread misinformation on the internet

NO you cannot do anything about it

[-] tutus@links.hackliberty.org 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This may be speculation but if you had to make a choice, I think you'd say it's likely true.

Windows is nothing but a vehicle to Azure for Microsoft. But they'll keep milking that cow for as long as they can get away with it. Slowly destroying it in the process. Windows 12 will be more ads, more telemetry, more spying and more data hoovering than ever before. We all know this to be true.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 5 months ago

Last windows I used was Windows 7.

[-] corvus@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Great. XP in my case.

[-] nick@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago

Just pirate the business version. All that bullshit is stripped out

[-] pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

that's ok, ill just use linux

[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

First micro was an Acorn Atom around 1981. First home built PC in around 1988.

Used Windows from the very early days of 3.0 when (Xerox?) Gem became the less useful competitor.

Around Win 2003, XP era they started taking useful functionality out or burying it and taking the useful KB articles off the net.

About that time I wanted to look at VoIP and stumbled into VoIP@home which was hosted by CentOS and I, initially, ran in a Win 2000 VM.

Not long after MS bought Hotmail and found that Windows servers couldn't keep it going and they had to replace it with UNIX. Maybe that timeline isn't quite right.

Started transitioning away from Windows that that stage and am so glad I did. I think Win 12 will just consist of a start button and everything else will require daily subscription.

From being a Win fanboy to just wishing he'd have taken the whole thing to that Epstein island with him and left it there.