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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: Drastic on May 11, 2015, 03:27:11 PM

Title: Windows 10 = "last version of windows"
Post by: Drastic on May 11, 2015, 03:27:11 PM
Going to service model.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/11/with-windows-10-the-os-becomes-a-service-instead-of-a-series-of-major-releases/

So, what do you think the yearly fee is going to be?
Title: Re: Windows 10 = "last version of windows"
Post by: rcjordan on May 11, 2015, 03:50:39 PM
>what do you think the yearly fee is going to be?

$50, like MS Live Gold
Title: Re: Windows 10 = "last version of windows"
Post by: Drastic on May 11, 2015, 04:34:52 PM
That's $60 now, msrp.

Don't they get $100/yr or so for office?
Title: Re: Windows 10 = "last version of windows"
Post by: rcjordan on May 11, 2015, 04:51:08 PM
>$60 now, msrp

bastards


>Office

Dunno, we've been on OO for a decade or more.   The price point is going to be what makes or breaks it.  As we've seen in cable cordcutters, millennials and x-gens are particularly sensitive to subscription models. Rightly so. But if MS slips in with an under-the-radar annual auto-renewal then it'll be a gusher.
Title: Re: Windows 10 = "last version of windows"
Post by: Brad on May 11, 2015, 05:07:14 PM
People have gotten used to learning new operating systems: most Windows users also use either Android or iOS.  Its not a big step to learn either Linux with a Windows-like GUI or OS X for their next computer if MS tries to milk the price too much and if their is an alternative at the right price.

In the UK Canonical and HP are getting ready to release a line of cheap laptops running Ubuntu.
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