Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 35781985)

Hopefully it will stay like it is now as Gabe says, but we can't see several years into the future.

They will still make money from new pcs with Windows oem on it and businesses, which is where they got most of their money from anyway i think.

Originally Posted by johnhook (Post 35781980)

I hope you and Dave are right but the future is a long time my opinion is it will be short lived

Originally Posted by johnhook (Post 35781997)

Firstly businesses will have to upgrade some will some wont those that do will only ever need to buy one more licence and have upgrades forever.

Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 35781985)

They will still make money from new pcs with Windows oem on it and businesses, which is where they got most of their money from anyway i think.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35782027)

I'd rather believe the opinion of a Microsoft product manager over yours.

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Business will NOT be able to buy one license and have upgrades forever. They will have to pay for a new copy of Windows every time they buy a new computer.


Same reason that Windows XP hasn't changed much in 12 years yet businesses had to update it.

And how many business do you know that use 12 year old desktop PCs for their day-to-day office work?

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Correct.

Any amount of money they may lose by giving away upgrades for free to existing users is minuscule in comparison to the number of paid-for new copies that will be sold during that time.

Only a tiny minority of people would ever have purchased a new copy of Windows to upgrade an existing machine.

Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 35777152)

I hope they don't try and go down the Office 365 route.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35777156)

They will.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35777180)

It's more like, pay every year for the additional features and updates you get every year. I suppose it's not a full subscription service but they have said it'll be somewhat subscription based/SaaS.

Far as I'm aware, you lose updates if you unsubscribe, Windows keeps working, same as what happens if you upgrade an unlicensed copy.

Originally Posted by Stop It (Post 35766073)

It looks pretty good to me, and Cortana is now active in the UK (Without region changing malarky).

The new sign in screen looks like an improvement too. Will test properly over the weekend. I wouldn't say it's a "Main OS" worthy build yet because features are still changing with each build.

Originally Posted by johnhook (Post 35782126)

hmmmmm less than a month ago you had the same opinion funny that ba dum dum tush

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35782172)

You're claiming businesses can buy consumer licenses when they cannot.

Windows SA, EES and Academic schemes have have always been subscription based.

Originally Posted by johnhook (Post 35782126)

I am not asking anyone to believe my opinion just posting what it is. Thought this was a discussion board am I mistaken?

Originally Posted by alanbjames (Post 35782834)

For example i could have 2 folders with MP4 but want to open the videos within the folders using different programs.

Originally Posted by ianch99 (Post 35783261)

When 10 is GA, is it wise to jump straight in or wait a (short?) while for any gremlins to be ironed out?