I have managed to avoid using anything Microsofty for decades, despite intensive hi-end computer use; in the past, with Atari, and later Macintosh.

If Microcrap comes up with this scheme and Apple follows, I can only hope that clever entrepreneurs will come up with a new line of machines with a novel concept: buy the machine and the software you need and do whatever the hell you want with it for as long as you want with no one watching!