This made think of a story about salesman who gave everyone in the village free lamps with a bit of oil, after they ran out of oil, he charged them for more of the oil.

I think it's too risky for ms to actually do. I'll just take it as rumor.

They should have just picked up some piles of grass to find magic meter refill power ups!

I can already imagine businesses trying to figure or wanting to support a new alternative, I mean paying just to use an OS sounds insane both for a business who seeks to make profit, not drawbacks and consumers who have simply paid once and used the OS for as long as they wish.

I had a feeling they would do this in the end though, an OS that consumers can use and another that gets charged like a service, though now it seems it's the same OS.

If it goes to all people that got it im bouncing to Windows 7 real quick. Or might get a Mac.

Almost made it. The notifications have stopped!!! However the icon is still in the task bar and theres still that 7.2GB $WINDOWS.~BT directory.

http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/

Great tool to get rid of that and regain your space for your C drive.

I hope they do it, and that it would spark a revolution and all gamers would chose Steam OS or possibly Linus instead.

FIgured as much. People always love to depict MS as the boogeyman of technology (must've been playing too much Fallout because I am starting to think they are the Institute of computers)... 

It's not a problem for consumers, at least yet, but it's a strong indicator that Microsoft is seriously looking into the possibility of Windows being a service instead of a product. I guarantee you that if Microsoft thinks it makes sense for Windows to be a service for consumers too, the change will happen. We're not there yet and hopefully we'll never be, but I find this a strong indicator that we must be wary.

They also saw what happened with GFWL, they did away with it but never once stated that they would scrap that concept forever and never do something like it again and yet here we are with the whole DX 12, Win 10 only games and melding Xbox with PC like it's 2008. MS have their visions, when people shout they will back down at first but like a vulture they will circle until the time is right and land to carry on what they intended to do from the start.

I can easily see them charging consumers for the OS and eventually for online usage of certain software and games, it's worked so well with their console oevr the eyars and since it works with one of their competitors then to them it makes sense to eventually reach that desired point where everything they give out is branded a "service" and nothing is owned or paid for once and never again. See to any busines, the thought of you having to pay to keep accessing something is a goldmine to them because for one you don't own what you have to keep paying just to access and see, for another you have to keep coming back in order to keep that level of investment going and of course for them that makes them more money in the longrun.