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Windows 10 upgrade will not be free after one year
Microsoft is saying is that if you want the free upgrade you need to do it in the first year. After that time you will need to buy the upgrade just like you had to do with every other version of windows. Previous upgrades were around $99 to $129 (depending on version) and I imagine this will continue to be the case.
Microsoft has been heavily promoting the fact that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for consumers running Windows 7, 8 or Phone 8.1 when the OS is released later this year. While the company is clearly pushing this 'free upgrade' announcement to make sure they can hit their 1 billion users benchmark, ina post on the company's Australian Partner Network, they explicitly state that the free upgrade offer will expire after one year.
Microsoft will offer a free upgrade to Windows 10 for qualified Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices in the first year. After the first year, upgrades will be paid via boxed product and VL Upgrades.
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#5076027 Posted on: 05/20/2015 01:03 PM
maybe there next option will be they pay us to use
maybe there next option will be they pay us to use
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#5076032 Posted on: 05/20/2015 01:09 PM
I got a bad feeling about all this free upgrade advertising.
Somehow i feel the downside will be, that they will fully bound OS to hardware. So you won't be able to activate Windows 10 as soon as you want switch to a new computer. Your "free" Windows 10 would not be portable to any new system. I hope i'm going to be wrong.
Those 100~150 Euro versions are OEM, that means one PC and if you trash it, you should not reuse that OS on 2nd PC. It is M$ benevolence/error if they allow you to activate it 2nd time.
Transferable license is 250+ Euro.
I got a bad feeling about all this free upgrade advertising.
Somehow i feel the downside will be, that they will fully bound OS to hardware. So you won't be able to activate Windows 10 as soon as you want switch to a new computer. Your "free" Windows 10 would not be portable to any new system. I hope i'm going to be wrong.
Those 100~150 Euro versions are OEM, that means one PC and if you trash it, you should not reuse that OS on 2nd PC. It is M$ benevolence/error if they allow you to activate it 2nd time.
Transferable license is 250+ Euro.
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#5076041 Posted on: 05/20/2015 01:24 PM
If Microsoft would just learn a vital lesson in which they brought down the price of their OS it would certainly help reduce piracy. An OS costing £50 would be worth the purchase for a large majority due to getting updates and not having to use dodgy scripts to bypass MS's copy protection but they continually charge an inflated fee that some people just can't justify.
Bring down the cost and you reduce your piracy is the key. I know there will always be the tight fisted "I hate Microsoft" brigade but a lower fee may just tempt them to put their hands in their pockets rather than run a dodgy script and having their bank accounts emptied overnight
If Microsoft would just learn a vital lesson in which they brought down the price of their OS it would certainly help reduce piracy. An OS costing £50 would be worth the purchase for a large majority due to getting updates and not having to use dodgy scripts to bypass MS's copy protection but they continually charge an inflated fee that some people just can't justify.
Bring down the cost and you reduce your piracy is the key. I know there will always be the tight fisted "I hate Microsoft" brigade but a lower fee may just tempt them to put their hands in their pockets rather than run a dodgy script and having their bank accounts emptied overnight
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#5076077 Posted on: 05/20/2015 02:05 PM
As Jim Sterling would have said .. M$ will go after ALL THE MONEY rather then some money. Remind you of something ?
If Microsoft would just learn a vital lesson in which they brought down the price of their OS it would certainly help reduce piracy. An OS costing £50 would be worth the purchase for a large majority due to getting updates and not having to use dodgy scripts to bypass MS's copy protection but they continually charge an inflated fee that some people just can't justify.
As Jim Sterling would have said .. M$ will go after ALL THE MONEY rather then some money. Remind you of something ?
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I think win xp 64 bit cost me £250, win7 "ultimate" cost me £100, win 8 was £20 using upgrade offer and now win10 is free.
At what point does Microsoft pay me to take their OS ?