Windows 10 price
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Windows (a non ad-supported 'with Bing' or whatever version) is not going to be free forever. It will be a free upgrade because they are desperate to get people off of Windows 7, but expect to see it form part of the Office 365 lineup.
Windows and Office (365) is the Microsoft cash cow. They lost huge amounts on Surface, Windows Phone, Xbox etc. They can't really afford to give up OS licensing income.
Windows and Office (365) is the Microsoft cash cow. They lost huge amounts on Surface, Windows Phone, Xbox etc. They can't really afford to give up OS licensing income.
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Very little of Windows income is generated by people going out and buying it, almost all of it comes from OEM.
No such thing as a free lunch.
It will most likely start as free to all for a year or so with the aim of getting all PCs updated to the same OS/platform. Once everyone is on board, they can drop support for older platforms and become a subscription platform. MS can't make money from cloud-based word processing and spreadsheet services, besides there are free alternatives that are just as good.
Want to continue using Windows? Pay £5 per month. Most people will set up direct debits and have no problem with paying what is a small amount for most people. With millions of people using Windows, there is a nice tidy sum lining MS execs pockets. Look at how popular Netflix has become - I know many people who let their subscription roll every month yet hardly watch anything, if anything at all most months. People will be more than happy to pay a fiver a month for Windows, even if their PC time is minimal.
It will most likely start as free to all for a year or so with the aim of getting all PCs updated to the same OS/platform. Once everyone is on board, they can drop support for older platforms and become a subscription platform. MS can't make money from cloud-based word processing and spreadsheet services, besides there are free alternatives that are just as good.
Want to continue using Windows? Pay £5 per month. Most people will set up direct debits and have no problem with paying what is a small amount for most people. With millions of people using Windows, there is a nice tidy sum lining MS execs pockets. Look at how popular Netflix has become - I know many people who let their subscription roll every month yet hardly watch anything, if anything at all most months. People will be more than happy to pay a fiver a month for Windows, even if their PC time is minimal.
Look at the Office 365 it has been a HUGE success for Microsoft.
Microsoft are certainly going to follow suit and offer Windows along with Office for a subscription fee. The initial OS will ALWAYS be free to offer a platform to get new users and to avoid piracy. They will fund that with advertisement revenue like Google.
Initially to offer a paid for subscription service to get Office desktop and other services such as more storage and all integrated services that Microsoft do and will provide.
Next this will link this to business, so you can use home and office together, blurring and eventually removing the boundaries between them (which they are already doing with Enterprise Mobility Services to provide Encryption, AV and managed support).
After they will breadcrumb people with their overlapping services and by doing decrease customer attrition through lock in and seeing this other services will start to lock in customers even more.
Surface is going to make Microsoft A LOT of money starting THIS YEAR with Surface 3, it is products like this and X-Box as well as Windows phone which have always been tools used to bring customers in.
Microsoft have been preparing for this year for a long time and they are going to see a huge leap over come Windows 10.
I just wonder how long it is before you can get a Microsoft lifetime mortgage.
Microsoft are certainly going to follow suit and offer Windows along with Office for a subscription fee. The initial OS will ALWAYS be free to offer a platform to get new users and to avoid piracy. They will fund that with advertisement revenue like Google.
Initially to offer a paid for subscription service to get Office desktop and other services such as more storage and all integrated services that Microsoft do and will provide.
Next this will link this to business, so you can use home and office together, blurring and eventually removing the boundaries between them (which they are already doing with Enterprise Mobility Services to provide Encryption, AV and managed support).
After they will breadcrumb people with their overlapping services and by doing decrease customer attrition through lock in and seeing this other services will start to lock in customers even more.
Surface is going to make Microsoft A LOT of money starting THIS YEAR with Surface 3, it is products like this and X-Box as well as Windows phone which have always been tools used to bring customers in.
Microsoft have been preparing for this year for a long time and they are going to see a huge leap over come Windows 10.
I just wonder how long it is before you can get a Microsoft lifetime mortgage.
that'll be in about 2 or 3 years
but MS have said “once a qualified Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it up to date for the supported lifetime of the device, keeping it more secure, and introducing new features and functionality over time – for no additional charge.”
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Yes because Office 365 provides Exchange for email, calendaring, contact management etc. and a bunch of desktop and mobile applications that tie into it very nicely.
If you do any sort of collaboration with other organisations and your staff aren't all particularly great computer users then Office is cheaper than training and dealing with problems.
If you do any sort of collaboration with other organisations and your staff aren't all particularly great computer users then Office is cheaper than training and dealing with problems.
You should read what office 365 gives you if you think its just a spreadsheet and a word processor.
For example you've forgot the mention you get 1TB of cloud storage. That alone makes the subscription very attractive.
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Along with mobile device management and azure ad etc
so everyone upgrades before they introduce "windows live" (xbox gold)
but i don't get why they are saying !Great news! We will offer a free upgrade to Windows 10 for qualified new or existing Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices that upgrade in the first year! And even better: once a qualified Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it up to date for the supported lifetime of the device, keeping it more secure, and introducing new features and functionality over time – for no additional charge. "
You've got that the wrong way around. Windows is currently the declining market for Microsoft (maybe due to the market waiting for Windows 10?). Azure, Office 365, Xbox and Surface are Microsoft's cashcows now. Just look at their 2015 Q3 highlights - https://www.microsoft.com/Investor/...s/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY15/Q3/default.aspx
For £7.99 a month, I get unlimited storage with onedrive, a reasonably generous skype minutes allowance and the office suite to boot. Oh. That's also for 5pcs and 5 mobile devices.
Am I really dumb for paying that price now?
About this so called free upgrade. I take it the upgrade we get will only be valid on the computer we use it on and if we move over
to a completely new computer, the upgrade we got will be useless and so we will need to buy a Windows 10 license to use it on
our new computer since the upgrade we got and the installation is only for that device we used it on?
to a completely new computer, the upgrade we got will be useless and so we will need to buy a Windows 10 license to use it on
our new computer since the upgrade we got and the installation is only for that device we used it on?
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FYI... the two versions you mentioned are the same
Pre-intalled = OEM
You mean OEM vs Retail.
OEM is *supposedly* tied to the motherboard (although you can still re-license if you have had a failure and replace the motherboard etc or simply use the phone system and tell them it's only installed on one PC
)Retail is the one you can officially take with you.
