Microsoft Confirms $1.50 Windows Security Update Hotpatch Fee Starts July 1

This is genious, whoever came up with it!<p>Imagine doing that in pharma also: you pay a regular monthly fee for the side effects of the medical drugs you took (caused by the pharma company, not by you).

&gt; Windows Server 2025<p>Over on the consumer side, I&#x27;d rather pay $1.50 to permanently regain full control over when the computer I own reboots for updates.<p>(Yes yes, insert Use Linux Joke here.)

I would hate to be the Microsoft account manager having to explain this fee to a CIO. Especially when Linux kernel livepatch is free.

Get ready to see a lot more hotfixes...

Serious question: what windows does&#x2F;does better than Linux that can explain be ready to pay for using their server softwares?

Pretty ballsy for Microsoft to charge a subscription fee for a feature that Linux has had for decades.<p>I don&#x27;t expect this to go well for them.

incentivizing themselves for building a broken system, you can do anything if you have a majority of market share

Chiselers.

Obligatory &quot;I&#x27;m gonna write myself a new minivan this afternoon&quot;