Tech stories circulating that Windows 12 is going to ship and it'll be subscription based and packed with more AI.

[jackryder@infosec.exchange]

@da_667 can you still use their apps without a subscription?

Honest question, I'm not Windows.

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@jackryder @da_667 yes

[zombie042@infosec.exchange]

@da_667 While I have 11 for hobbies and a backup work system, that will move me to some flavor of Linux faster than Microsoft's stock price falls...

[da_667@infosec.exchange]

@jackryder Well, I bought a copy of Office 2019 a while back however it was a single-use license. I have since re-used that single-use license for my VMs. So, at least Office 2019 is still standalone.

[jackryder@infosec.exchange]

@gsuberland @da_667 Oh nice!

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@da_667 Win11 Enterprise IoT + Win11Debloater = win.

[da_667@infosec.exchange]

@gsuberland totally agree

[jackryder@infosec.exchange]

@da_667 Right sorry, that makes sense. I wasn't thinking about VMs.

[da_667@infosec.exchange]

@jackryder nothing to be sorry for

[johnley@infosec.exchange]

@da_667 and then Apple drops the MacBook Neo this morning and obliterates the “Best Buy shopper” laptop market.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@da_667

yeah... folks love to say "just use libreoffice" but if you have clients/work that are on windoze, sharing a doc back and forth doesn't work well. i still have a "local" copy of office and will keep using it until it's finally no longer at all compatible. hopefully by then, office/365/copilot will have died the horrible death it deserves and the world will have moved on.

[mira@shark.community]

@da_667 I’m running Win10 IoT 2021 on a couple of my machines. Once those are done, I’m done with windows

[derekheld@infosec.exchange]

@johnley @da_667 I may have convinced my mom to swap out her Windows laptop for the Neo already.

Apple is going to lay waste to Windows laptops in that price segment.