

They know. Microsoft is now a service company. Windows upgrades are free. Do you remember when Microsoft said that windows 10 is the last windows?
Now the upgrade to 11 is free, Microsoft is a service company… Windows is only a platform to sell you an office 365 subscription, copilot bullshit and grabbing your information.
They know the Windows days are numbered, and they are going to extract the most juice out of it until it dies.
In their head, the only OS you’ll need in the future is a browser, until then, tough luck peasants.
Yes, we are going back to the mainframe era. It started gradually with “the cloud”.
I remember the first days of “the cloud”, when people were not keen to give their data to other companies: “we aren’t going to put all our data on the internet!”. Yet, here we are.
Today, when I bring slightly the idea we could host our operations, I am seen like the crazy one.
Slowly but surely, everything is being locked down in the hands of a few.
The costs are raising, our freedom is diminished, and our privacy is gone.
Linux is like the only bastion remaining. I hope we all take care of this one!