Microsoft Gradually Converts Operating System to Subscription-based Stranglehold

Some of you are already aware that Microsoft intends to make
the key elements of its operating system into a “rental” or “subscription” operating
system. That in order to continue to run Micosoft Windows you’ll be paying
practically whatever they want per month or year for it to work.

The whole article is here:

https://consumertip.com/microsoft-and-adobe-subscription-operating-systems/

Already, companies like Adobe are withdrawing support for,
and even sabotaging the continued usage of, their standalone products to herd
the consumers into subscriptions. Microsoft is doing the same for older
versions of Office, which includes Excel, Powerpoint, Word etc.

There is no justification for this in most cases because MOST people are NOT power-users and do not need
the support, continued-development, nor features that better-funded major
corporations with multiple machines, platforms and locations to coordinate.

So as we get corralled into various subscriptions, the cost
of computing should soon become onerous to regular computer users.

Some people are already using their phones as computers,
handling their emails, authoring, reports, spreadsheets etc on their phones
rather than their laptops which (due to their operating systems) are “sitting
ducks” for a Microsoft Subscription operating system coup.

To replace Adobe Acrobat I did some looking around and found
a handy product called PDF24 and it’s wonderful. I have encountered no
limitation and it is addressing all my needs in the production of my new book.

https://www.pdf24.org/en/

To replace Microsoft Office I’ve found the same product so
many other of you have called Open Office.

https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html

Adobe and Microsoft are counting on your continued ignorance
of these excellent ‘practically identical’ products. And they will continue to
raise the prices of their Acrobat and Office Suites until everyone on any kind
of budget opens their eyes and looks around.

Now I wonder….What actual operating system will replace
Microsoft Windows while Bill Gates underestimates the irreplaceability of his venerable
but increasingly privacy-invasive OS?

I could see the marriage of Meta (Facebook and Instagram)
with Microsoft, Adobe and Office all under one roof (subscription) as the
perfect Pacifier (and money-drain) for the American computer-user.

Wake Up People. We should have boycotted the first software
manufacturers as they dropped their standalones for subscription products. But
we didn’t. And I don’t think the train’s gonna stop. I think the solution will
be products that replace subscription products with standalone products.

Why does this matter to you?

Because to install, use, and update subscription based
products, you’ll have to make a perpetual investment, AND you will need internet
access at all times to validate that you are a legitimate licensee. And if
something happens to your ability to prove your subscription (say moving to or
logging in from a new computer) –  you’re
screwed until you get that whole shenanigan worked out.

I’m saying NO to subscriptions to software I should own, at
least in the version on my computer. I understand UPGRADES cost money and
usually I’m happy to pay it. But a month-to-month fee for irrelevant “updates”
and features in my limited, residential space is unacceptable.