[PostOnce]

"no business model" e.g. one off payment

and yet Microsoft (worlds most valuable company btw) built an empire selling software.

[jamespo]

And yet here we are in 2019 and they're moving to subscription model

[Terretta]

Because now they can rope-a-dope the market segment who don’t need to upgrade every year, usually only with a new computer.

It’s rent seeking of a sort. No additional needed value delivered, artificial change to extract more monies.

[inapis]

Microsoft was not built on $5 one off software.