Windows 10 Price ?

Dicehunter · 21 May 2015 at 02:17

Anyone by chance heard any info regarding the price of Windows 10 and if it will be OEM or retail ?

Not too keen on the idea of paying £80 for a 1 time use license myself TBH.

Dewgy · 21 May 2015 at 04:15

From what i understand if you have a genuine windows 7 or 8 you get a free upgrade. If you don't fall into that then you pay. Unfortunately they have not said what price this may be. Just that there will be a discount for people with non genuine windows.

Glaucus · 21 May 2015 at 08:24

Since windows 8 one time use doesn't exist, all the license changed and OEM = retail effectively.

As for price, no info. Other than win 7/win8 get a free upgrade to win 10.

Dicehunter · 21 May 2015 at 09:53

Glaucus said:
Since windows 8 one time use doesn't exist, all the license changed and OEM = retail effectively.

As for price, no info. Other than win 7/win8 get a free upgrade to win 10.

Cool thanks for the reply.

Although I recently tried to reinstall Windows 8.1 and the product key wouldn't work so had to go back to 7.

I phoned MS but they said the key was blocked even though I bought it from OCUK :confused:

Glaucus · 21 May 2015 at 09:54

Phone ocuk.

Steve2000 · 21 May 2015 at 12:33

Will it be free forever? Or is it a free upgrade, then a subscription plan kicks in after a year or something?

Glaucus · 21 May 2015 at 12:39

Forever

opethdisciple · 21 May 2015 at 16:04

It's free to upgrade to within the first year, if you have a genuine Win 7, 8 or 8.1 key.

If you dont upgrade in year one, you will have to pay for a license.

BaronVonDuncs · 26 May 2015 at 20:31

Glaucus said:
Forever

I doubt that, I think a subscription service ala Office 365 is much more likely longer term. It may be you will need to buy a subscription in order to keep getting updates etc for any 'free' copy of win 10.

Destination · 26 May 2015 at 20:38

I doubt that, I think office and then other products will be the retail end, the OS is simply there as a platform of uniformity and conformity, for them to sell their service through.

Glaucus · 26 May 2015 at 20:40

BaronVonDuncs said:
I doubt that, I think a subscription service ala Office 365 is much more likely longer term. It may be you will need to buy a subscription in order to keep getting updates etc for any 'free' copy of win 10.

They've already said it's for the life of the device. So yes it's forever.
And subscription model is very unlikely. As OS is not where the money is. It's selling services like office 365, Skype etc.
If they start charging for the OS people will flock away even more than they are doing now. Mist home users are perfectly fine with android or apple.

Hikari Kisugi said:
I doubt that, I think office and then other products will be the retail end, the OS is simply there as a platform of uniformity and conformity, for them to sell their service through.

Exactly, it makes no sense to go subscription or back to £80+ model.
I expect it will be oh look it's done so well we're extending the free bit. And if they charge then it'll be cheap like <£25. That's what I think anyway.

Skeeter · 26 May 2015 at 20:56

For consumers, yes.

Business licensing will remain, so if Windows does become cheap or free I expect it will only be for personal use.

Jim99 · 26 May 2015 at 20:58

If it does end up costing £80, it'll probably be better to buy a copy of 8.1 and then upgrade it for free.

Glaucus · 26 May 2015 at 22:03

Skeeter said:
For consumers, yes.

Business licensing will remain, so if Windows does become cheap or free I expect it will only be for personal use.

Off course. Bit then enterprise comes with support and other add value stuff.

gareth170 · 27 May 2015 at 00:11

but for people who upgrade their rig may need to pay for a new win10 license. because they saying they'll support the free upgrade for the life of the device. upgrading the device e.g motherboard would basically make it a new/changed device.

Glaucus · 27 May 2015 at 01:00

gareth170 said:
but for people who upgrade their rig may need to pay for a new win10 license. because they saying they'll support the free upgrade for the life of the device. upgrading the device e.g motherboard would basically make it a new/changed device.

Unlikely unless they change the t&cs again as that hasn't existed for years.
On top of that in the past it's always been the t&cs on what you are upgrading, so the w7/w8 license.

Just people panicking before all details have been realised, and no point panicking before those details are realised.

BaronVonDuncs · 27 May 2015 at 09:52

gareth170 said:
but for people who upgrade their rig may need to pay for a new win10 license. because they saying they'll support the free upgrade for the life of the device. upgrading the device e.g motherboard would basically make it a new/changed device.

That point still needs clarity from MS. Does lifetime mean a 'one time' install of win 10 free but no further installs without paying or will you be able to change components eg mobo cpu etc and then reinstall a clean copy of win 10?

It would be great if Win 10 does work out to be like a new retail win 8 license and you can install multiple times etc with no hassle all for free but the cynic in me finds this scenario hard to believe at this time.