Microsoft will Give All Current Users (including pirates) Free Upgrade

[wewantutopia]

to Windows 10.

They must really want to hold on to their market share.

http://www.cnet.com/news/windows-10-...h-free-update/

[Dragonbite]

Microsoft, I suspect, are trying to move Enterprises from Windows 7 since there is a lot of resistance for companies to move to Windows 8.n.

I will probably upgrade my Windows 7 laptop to 10 (it's dual-boot already) once I make sure I have the means to re-install Windows 7 (just in case) as well as to boot into the installed Linux (fix grub).

[sffvba[e0rt]

Give away Windows to grow market share and dependency on it while using the trusted Apple model of App Store dependencies to keep em pushing in the $'s...

[QIII]

To be fair, I think that this is a better business model in terms of user value.

Free OS, buy the goodies you want or use freeware/open source if you choose.

[sffvba[e0rt]

To be fair, I think that this is a better business model in terms of user value.

Free OS, buy the goodies you want or use freeware/open source if you choose.

One of the reasons Valve has been betting so heavily on Linux is to get out of this "new Windows" world as there will soon not be much room for competition... because that makes you less money. I would like to think that you would still get to run what you want how you want it but I suspect that it will be a case of it becoming more difficult (verging on impossible very often).

But I guess only time will tell...

[Dragonbite]

By including Pirates then their reported adoption rate (market share) is increased even if they didn't get paid for all of those instances. Never was a factor before, but their market share is getting chipped away by Apple, ChromeOS, Android and Linux!

[sammiev]

I may just try it then when the time comes.

[Dragonbite]

Chances are, if you have used Windows 8 it shouldn't be too far of a stretch. I haven't so it takes a bit for me to get used to navigating around the start menu/screen/??? thing.

[MartyBuntu]

I bailed out around XP SP2.

I don't care either way.

[Mike_Walsh]

Like MartyBuntu, XP was the last version I really used to any extent. Tried Vista, thought it was awful.....and decided MS and I had come to a parting of the ways.

With Ubuntu and Puppy Linux, I have no reason to look back.


Regards,

Mike.