[awinter-py]

Aligned incentives is a cool insight.

If windows (for example) were on a monthly subscription model instead of a bi-yearly upgrade model, I think a lot of the consumer-facing failures at msft post-win2k wouldn't have happened. They couldn't bundle new features with breaking changes in a gradual-improvement subscription model.

[galfarragem]

With a monthly subscription model most of that failures wouldn't have happened because they wouldn't be using windows anymore..

[awinter-py]

fair point -- it would take a lot of convincing to get consumers to pay for security updates and USB drivers