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What Microsoft has said and what they might do are two very different things, would not be the first company to change direction further down the road.
As far as the idea of a subscription cloud based OS, its not that far fetched an idea. There are lots of subscription models that work very well, versions of Office, cloud storage, mmo games, Tv etc.
Lets not forget all the big names are starting to push the idea of cloud hosted game streaming services, I see no reason why a sub based OS is not possible, even now you don't need a physical copy of Win10, just download it and buy a key from MS store. It could work similar to Sky tv packages.
But as I said, this is not a prediction, its the completely unsubstantiated musings of a Win10 user, so no need to start an argument, only Microsoft know for a fact where they are going with Windows (well, we hope).