Microsoft To Sell Windows 10 on usb-sticks

#5123807 Posted on: 07/17/2015 07:36 AM

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It's about time. They should have had this awhile ago.

#5123808 Posted on: 07/17/2015 07:41 AM

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this is a really good idea and about time too

what would the cost difference be to completely end dvd/bluray disc sales and make it all usb?

could even make the sticks un-writable so only the game will ever be on it

#5123811 Posted on: 07/17/2015 07:45 AM

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This is good for progress....I built my PC back in 2013 without any drives, so I've been without any kind of optical drive last few years. Think I've only needed to use it maybe 2 or 3 times..

PC games as well however should also make this transition to USB sticks, I don't like at all where they're trying to push us with PC games which is 100% the digital format (Steam, Origin) because if you look at the paperwork, you're really just RENTING the game... I would much rather have something on a USB stick so I know I own it with my own two hands.
I can now get that with Windows 10 which is a bonus

#5123842 Posted on: 07/17/2015 08:57 AM

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I wonder how long they will do that... I very much like the idea of getting the image and installation on an USB stick, but that costs...

I still remember back in the day there was the Netbook edition of Norton's Internet Security. Came on an USB stick (because netbooks seldomly have optical drives), but just a year after I bought it they stopped selling it. I think it was too expensive to put out the USB sticks.

#5123851 Posted on: 07/17/2015 09:14 AM

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I wonder how long they will do that... I very much like the idea of getting the image and installation on an USB stick, but that costs...

I still remember back in the day there was the Netbook edition of Norton's Internet Security. Came on an USB stick (because netbooks seldomly have optical drives), but just a year after I bought it they stopped selling it. I think it was too expensive to put out the USB sticks.

It wont cost more than if it was on DVD.
Microsoft Windows 10 Home will cost 119 USD, Microsoft Windows 10 Home Pro is a steep 199.99 USD

#5123869 Posted on: 07/17/2015 09:56 AM

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Yeah, for us... but I'm not sure microsoft will get a USB stick with the files on there for the same price as making a dvd. That's why I said I wonder if they will change that in the long run.

#5123875 Posted on: 07/17/2015 10:24 AM

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I like this... USB drives are cheap enough.

Windows Vista has the coolest Packaging though #___#

#5123877 Posted on: 07/17/2015 10:29 AM

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An ms certified usb isnt cheap. I reckon this will increase cost of the OS a fair bit if buying retail and you know damn well that retailers will further inflate the price as they'll try to pass it off as some sort of technical revolution.

#5123883 Posted on: 07/17/2015 10:45 AM

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USB flash drives expensive ? ahahahahaa aa sorry

#5123894 Posted on: 07/17/2015 11:11 AM

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Oh i like that!

I'm running my PC without an Optical Drive for atleast 4 years now. The only thing i have in my Drive Bay is a Fan Controller for my Case Fans.

#5123895 Posted on: 07/17/2015 11:16 AM

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Oh i like that!

I'm running my PC without an Optical Drive for atleast 4 years now. The only thing i have in my Drive Bay is a Fan Controller for my Case Fans.

Same here, everything should be digital or local.

#5124006 Posted on: 07/17/2015 02:53 PM

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This is good for progress....I built my PC back in 2013 without any drives, so I've been without any kind of optical drive last few years. Think I've only needed to use it maybe 2 or 3 times..

PC games as well however should also make this transition to USB sticks, I don't like at all where they're trying to push us with PC games which is 100% the digital format (Steam, Origin) because if you look at the paperwork, you're really just RENTING the game... I would much rather have something on a USB stick so I know I own it with my own two hands.
I can now get that with Windows 10 which is a bonus

You were always just renting the games, you never own the rights to the game only own a license to play the game, that's how it always has been, that hasn't changed, don't try and fool yourself into thinking any different.

USB flash drives expensive ? ahahahahaa aa sorry


Yes? Comparatively speaking.

DVDs can cost, by now, probably 20 cents to make each, maybe lower, it was around 30 cents in 2006

Compared to a USB drive, which is hard to get information on, but i'd say they'd have to use a 16gb USB drive, or an 8Gb, which both will probably cost them $1.50-$5, that number is even harder to both get and calculate due to different manufacturing processes, cheaper memory controllers vs higher quality, etc. I'd expect it'd Microsoft to not go the cheapest but probably not the most expensive to make sure their product will work.

Is it a lot of money when it comes to $119/$199 products? no, is it a lot of money when you order 10's of thousands of them? yeah, even at my estimate that'd be:

10,000 DVDs @ $.20=$2,000
10,000 USBs @ $3=$30,000

Again, the USB specifically may be wrong, but they aren't as cheap as DVDs to make, individually that's not a problem, but when you have to make a ton, that's a problem.

#5124043 Posted on: 07/17/2015 04:19 PM

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About damn time, I'd gladly pay a few extra bucks if that what it takes (though I shouldn't pay anything if the update is free for my 8.1 cd-key...), I stopped using my optical drive for I can't remember how long.

#5124063 Posted on: 07/17/2015 04:50 PM

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I have a Blu-ray optical drive and it is one of the most important pieces of hardware in my PC, I cant get digital 3D movies so I need it to watch 3D movies using Discs.

3D movies direct to a 3D Projector = better than 3D cinema experience

I already use USB for installing windows 8.1 and Ms office hopefully Ms will allow us to create our own USB windows10 drives

#5124091 Posted on: 07/17/2015 05:58 PM

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You were always just renting the games, you never own the rights to the game only own a license to play the game, that's how it always has been, that hasn't changed, don't try and fool yourself into thinking any different.




So I'm still renting my car that I bought and paid in full from my dealership years ago ?
You're making zero sense, and about owning the rights to the game what in the heck are you even talking about? where's your common sense/logic? it's about that one single game that I own, and not the rights to it or whatever you're going on about

I go into a store buy a physical boxed copy of Witcher 3/Windows 10, and I have that for the rest of my life because it's something I can hold in my own two hands and nobody can take that away from me.
I go on Steam purchase it digitally, wherein they reserve the right to take it out of my library/make it unplayable any time any reason they see fit... for various reasons I won't get into, could be anything.


A simple analogy I can use if you're not comprehending is I go into a dealership I buy a car in full, I OWN that car, Nissan or Honda can't come take it back, it's MY property.... if I leased/financed it on the other hand, well then that's a different story, and that's what you get with Steam, you pay full price to basically lease a game.