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Windows 10 upgrade will not be free after one year

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/20/2015 08:01 AM | source: | 26 comment(s)
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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lanelor
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#5075826 Posted on: 05/20/2015 08:30 AM
In 3rd world countries 1 licence for Windows 7 Home costs the same as Windows 8.1 /100 euros/, while the average salary in a big city is less then 500 euros.

So who in their right mind will buy a legit MS OS /government excluded/?

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#5075849 Posted on: 05/20/2015 09:13 AM
In 3rd world countries 1 licence for Windows 7 Home costs the same as Windows 8.1 /100 euros/, while the average salary in a big city is less then 500 euros.

So who in their right mind will buy a legit MS OS /government excluded/?

Here OEM W8.1 costs 150 Euro, non OEM (transferable) 250 Euro. Ratio between OS cost and salary is same here.

CK the Greek
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#5075922 Posted on: 05/20/2015 11:02 AM
Nuh,after the first year best sales marketing plan would be 69Eu to 99Eu max for upgrade in my opinion. Seems like they need to take back more consumers.

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#5075924 Posted on: 05/20/2015 11:05 AM
Romania: 110EUR for 8.1 Home.
8.1 Pro, non-OEM is 250.

Average salary is all over the place. The average salary is 400EUR, but there are fields that start at that salary. That's the minimum salary for a programmer (and there are a lot of companies offering even more).

But on average, same rates.

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#5076022 Posted on: 05/20/2015 12:59 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.

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