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They are still making a lot of money selling Windows. Every OEM has to buy a copy of Windows. The only difference is that now they don't charge for upgrades. W
by addicted 9y ago
They are still making a lot of money selling Windows. Every OEM has to buy a copy of Windows.
The only difference is that now they don't charge for upgrades. Which is extremely smart because the cost of supporting people on decade old OSes probably significantly exceeds the revenues earned from consumers who are buying Windows upgrades to their existing PCs.
Oh, and enterprise licenses are the same, if I am not mistaken.
Frankly, MS not making updates free earlier was them shooting themselves in their foot.
- Steko 9y agoThey didn't change me to upgrade to Win 10 but they stripped out the ability to play movies on DVD and then tried to sell me a $15 app.
- sbrm1 9y agoGet VLC.
- zxcveqwer 9y agoActually, VLC is for Linux and macOS, because they don't have MPC-HC - https://mpc-hc.org/ https://mpc-hc.org/
- jackvalentine 9y agoUm Actually[1], some of us prefer VLC. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qam4iiya1q0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qam4iiya1q0
- ww520 9y agoGet MPV or VLC. I like MPV because the minimum, no nonsense approach to just play video.
- signal11 9y ago> Oh, and enterprise licenses are the same IIRC MS enterprise licensees are charged for "software assurance", which is an annualized fee they pay for regular updates and upgrades. This looks like it's continuing with Windows 10. On the consumer side, Microsoft would really like you to not buy a Mac. Since Mac's OS updates are free, it just makes sense that Windows is free anyway - they made very little on retail Windows sales anyway. I guess they figure they'll make their money when people upgrade laptops/desktops or buy other form-factors, e.g. 2-in-1s or tablets.