I wonder how much Apple's decision to make OS X upgrades free will put additional pressure on Microsoft. I consider OS X less enterprise ready, but Apple has ma

I wonder how much Apple's decision to make OS X upgrades free will put additional pressure on Microsoft. I consider OS X less enterprise ready, but Apple has made huge strides there. Apple clearly has less interest in keeping OSes updated long term (10.6 is being EOL soon), but the free upgrades solve part of that issue. So, will companies be willing to trade Apple's lack of commitment to maintaining a version of the OS long term like MS for free upgrades? Keep in mind that OS X upgrades tend to work fairly smoothly, and some of the OS upgrade issues that Windows faces have not impacted OS X. Add in the increasing pressure from Linux distros that work well for specific uses, and MS is in a bind with trying to sell expensive OS upgrades. I wonder if this will cause MS to move more into the hardware business, where you can make money off of the whole package. Of course, if you really like Windows, maybe you'll need to pay for the OS more than once a decade.