Windows 10 Upgrade Thread (Questions, observations, experiences)

vincent

vincent

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M$ wants you to use its services like onedrive, skype, cortana, bing, msn, etc so they can be more like google (sell ads based on your personal info)
 
solarz

solarz

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vincent said:
M$ wants you to use its services like onedrive, skype, cortana, bing, msn, etc so they can be more like google (sell ads based on your personal info)
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That's certainly one aspect. The other one I think is because of what they experienced with XP. It's expensive to be forced to maintain multiple versions of Windows. By making the win 10 upgrade free, potentially everyone with win 7 and 8 will move to win 10, allowing MS to support only one windows version.
 
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antiterror13

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solarz said:
That's certainly one aspect. The other one I think is because of what they experienced with XP. It's expensive to be forced to maintain multiple versions of Windows. By making the win 10 upgrade free, potentially everyone with win 7 and 8 will move to win 10, allowing MS to support only one windows version.
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But there will be still some still use Win 7/8 and Microsoft by law still required to maintain the OSs until 2020 (for Win7) and 2023 (for Win8) ... so Microsoft still has to spend money to support them no matter what
 
solarz

solarz

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antiterror13 said:
But there will be still some still use Win 7/8 and Microsoft by law still required to maintain the OSs until 2020 (for Win7) and 2023 (for Win8) ... so Microsoft still has to spend money to support them no matter what
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Not sure about having to support them by law, but remember that XP came out in 2001 and is still being supported today simply due to the large number of corporate clients still using it. The move is aimed toward those people.
 
Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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solarz said:
... remember that XP came out in 2001 and is still being supported today simply due to the large number of corporate clients still using it.
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Outside of some very specific situations...where perhaps large corporations are paying MS extra to hire people to maintain it, XP support officially ended April 8, 2014.

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antiterror13

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Jeff Head said:
I am unaware of any Federal Law that requires this in the US. Could you link documentation for this?
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Perhaps it was my bad wordings, what I meant when we bought Win 7, the agreement between us and Microsoft was ... Microsoft to support the OS until 2020.

Anyway an agreement is protected by law
 
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