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Originally Posted by wavytone
Inevitable... Microsoft isn’t good at hardware, and there haven’t really been any killer new feature in operating systems since windows NT.
Without a compelling reason to buy a new OS every few years they’ll go under.
So they’ve created a new feature of their own - and it’s a real “killer” - in the form of a time bomb demanding money and holding your files to ransom.
They aren’t alone in this model, it has been tried before in the 1980s and 1990s by mainframe companies - all of which have died anyway except IBM.
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I have to disagree with pretty much everything you say here.
The revenue MS gets from it's hardware is more than it gets from it's desktop operating systems (think X-box, Surface etc). In fact, in 2015 PC operating systems revenue made up less than 16% of their total revenue.
Regarding the artticle, this sounds more like something that will sit alongside the current windows 10 that people are familiar with buying and managing, and will probably be a successful product, just not to regular consumers, think more business and enterprise consumers.