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Originally Posted by johnhook
I hope you and Dave are right but the future is a long time my opinion is it will be short lived
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I'd rather believe the opinion of a Microsoft product manager over yours.
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Originally Posted by johnhook
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.
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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.
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Office365 is already subscription as lets face it Office has not changed that much in 12 years so why would business need to update that? I just can not see it as sustainable myself 
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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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Originally Posted by SnoopZ
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.
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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.