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Windows 10 isn't free and the free upgrade offer was only for Windows 7 users and up and it will be over on July 29. The official retail price for Windows 10 is
by bad_user 10y ago
Windows 10 isn't free and the free upgrade offer was only for Windows 7 users and up and it will be over on July 29. The official retail price for Windows 10 is $120 for Home and $200 for Pro. That isn't cheap either.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoIndeed. (Windows 8 users too.) It's a free update (like... you know, many other free updates) to a paid license. And it remains a paid license. "You are the product" does not apply to Windows 10, and that's why it's so key that Microsoft change it's strategy with regards to telemetry: We're paying customers.
- Grishnakh 10y agoWhy should MS change its strategy? They might as well double-down on their strategy and grab as much data about you as they can. What are you going to do about it? Most MS customers have shown they will not abandon Windows, no matter what, so it would be dumb for MS to worry about customers' feelings about being spied on.
- phatfish 10y agoI think if MS had a share of the mobile market greater than 2% (or whatever it is at now) they would be less inclined to enable such spying through their desktop OS. However they are nowhere in mobile (and search), and desktop is the only source they have for user data. The thought of getting left behind in the data mining race by Google and Facebook must be a real concern, and they will do anything to keep up. I suppose the LinkedIn takeover has changed this somewhat, but LinkedIn alone will not put them on terms with Google/Facebook.