SaaS - "software as a service", aka "subscription model".

This is why people need to ditch Windows, because even though the new fancy Nordic edition will remove telemetry (honestly if you have to run Windows, run that), it'll still most likely be subscription based.

The way I see it, Windows will become Co-Pilot OS. Eventually features will be taken out of Windows and replaced with prompts. At some point you can only do basic, basic stuff without Co-Pilot, and Co-Pilot will cost you a monthly subscription.

This will hopefully piss off the OEM's, because they'll see that they're paying Microsoft to give them clients. Hopefully that will mean they pivot toward Linux, but most likely they'll just hash out a deal with Microsoft and also push Co-Pilot like a mf.

This is a reminder that most laptops and systems today run perfectly with Linux. You don't need windows anymore, and the longer you stay reliant upon Microsoft, the deeper into that SaaS rabbit hole you go, eventually ending up as a captured audiences once more.

Again:

LINUX is super fucking easy nowadays, you have no more excuses.