On 22 Jul 2016 at 14:05, Brian Lightfoot wrote: > I think unfounded statements like "I have heard" need to be taken with a > grain of salt. Unless it can be substantiated and documented, then it´s all > just another rumor on the Internet.
Not just a rumour -- it has already been announced that the Enterprise version of Win 10 will cosdt US$ 7.00 per seat per month. I suspect that Microsoft would not announce such a thing for the Home editiion before the last date to upgrade for "free". > However, many large software houses have already switched to a subscription > based sales. Adobe is one major example. Try buying a "stand-alone" version of > Photoshop anymore. You are forced to "rent" it on a monthly or yearly basis. > Yet, nobody complains about that. Within the next decade it would not surprise > me at all if most software programs end up being subscription based...be haps > even Legacy Family Tree. So while you think you can switch to an open source > OS like Linux, you may be forced to use subscription based applications. Of > course, this all supposes that the Internet doesn´t crash and burn in the next > decade. There is a difference between spps and an operating system. Legacy is an app. An operating system that depends on subscriptions is, as I said, nothing more than ransomware and evil. It would make huge amounts of historical informatiion inaccessible. Picture this scenario (and you can imagine many others) -- your maiden aunt dies, and you inherit her laptop. She has kept, not only her genealogy, but otherr family documents -- her memoirs and diaries, corresondence etc on her computer. But it all becomes inaccessible. And that could be multiblies millions of times throughout the world. And what would happen if Microsoft went bankrupt? That is why I hope Legacy will continue to work on earlier versions of Windows. > Brian in CA > > > > > > From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Wes Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 8:18 AM To: Legacy User Group > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Register for Webinar Friday - Windows 10 Survival > Guide for Genealogists by Thomas MacEntee > > > > On 7/21/2016 10:05 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: > > On 21 Jul 2016 at 8:45, Geoff Rasmussen wrote: > > > The Windows 10 operating system is not so much a choice as it is an > inevitability. As Microsoft continues to remove support from Windows 8 and > earlier versions, you should get on board the Windows 10 upgrade train now! > Learn the new features of Windows 10, how it will impact how you research > genealogy, and more. You´ll also learn which default Windows 10 settings to > change as well as how to fix common "annoyances" experienced by most users. > > > I have heard that as soon as Microsoft has enticed enough people into > "upgrading" to Windows 10, they will turn it into a subscription software, as > they do with some version of Office, so that the "free" upgrade will in fact > > lead to a lifelong debt that can never be paid off -- in fact a form of > ransomware. . > > I therefore hope that Legacy will continue to work with older versions of > Windows, and that the people at Millennia will seriously consider porting it > > to another platform, like Linux. > > > > If they tried to do that, you would see an amazing exodus to Linux. It > would happen so fast, no one at Microsoft would know it until it was too > late. > > > > Just my .02 > > Wes > > -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: [email protected] -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
