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Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before

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25 pointselorant8 comments

By the way, Windows 11 Pro is pretty much a scam now. "If it is free, you're the product" well it seems even if you pay you are still the product too. It installs adware if you use Google Chrome and launches that whenever it pleases (usually in the middle of using Chrome).

And remember: no refunds! I asked.

Sw engineers have been so pissed off by Windows 11 that the company I work for now allows Ubuntu installation on corporate notebooks.

I predict this is a total disaster.

Microsoft continues the war against its own users.

Microsoft's real users are governments and large corporations -- seat licenses, admin tools, services, etc.

Everyone else using their OS is just another one the products Microsoft can sell to their real users.

It wouldn't be quite so frustrating if it wasn't almost impossible to buy enterprise-equivalent licenses as an individual. Why can't it be as easy as Office 365?

I am mystified as to why Microsoft is so disinterested in taking our money.

So long as you're willing to pay enterprise subscription prices for both Office and Windows with no volume discount, single-user subscription licensing for Windows Enterprise is exactly as easy as subscribing to Office 365:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/e3

(click "Try free for one month >", enter an email not already associated with a 365 org, and note that, under "Company size" in the resulting sign-up form, the first option is "1 person")

AFAIK, non-subscription licensing is still as much of a hassle as it's always been — volume licensing, minimum purchases, partners — and the page for a base Windows Enterprise subscription without Office offers "Contact Sales" with no listed price as the only purchasing option.

Most users want the DNS of the Internet, not of their own ISP.

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