MS thinking of doing windows 8 for free

[spoffle]

I dunno MS is evolving and they need to adapt to survive ultimately, these days they would be better off with an agressive pricing model and getting people to pay smaller amounts more regularly (but not too regularly) than huge upfront prices that either tends to result in people wringing every last drop out of the software for 10+ years or pirating it. Theres a good reason why Windows 7 at ~£45 was such a success relatively.

The £15 or £25 copies of Windows 8 were probably even more successful, it's a shame that they hiked the price up so much afterwards.

 

[theheyes]

Key word being relatively. Retail offers are only really targeting a small subsection of consumers, namely enthusiasts. It's OEM pricing that's the central issue.

 

[Elevon]

Still think windows 7 is great. Using Home Premium myself.

Dont believe MS giving anything away for "FREE" without them getting loads of $ for it.

I thought DOS was great(better then any Windows back then ) but we all know what happened to it,as to Win8/8.1 which I think is better in many ways then 7 etc well pricing needs to be cheaper and yes those 15 and 25 quid deals were great,I hope Win9 gets the same treatment.