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> here is no significant difference between the three companies' treatment of their customer base in this regard. Correct. What's different is the customer's e

> here is no significant difference between the three companies' treatment of their customer base in this regard. Correct. What's different is the customer's expectation (so far) about this treatment. IMO this is significant. > I believe it would not be a surprise to find that the enterprise/ultimate/wtf-ever-they-call-it are excluded from this. Of course, I'm sure a user could receive the same exemption should they choose to pay the fee... I would certainly hope this to be the case, but so far this is AFAIK just speculation. Did MS think as far as building in these use cases? After what they did to the desktop UI (even on Windows Server) on Windows 8 I have stopped to just assume Microsoft knows what they're doing.

AdieuToLogic 11y ago
> After what they did to the desktop UI (even on Windows Server) on Windows 8 I have stopped to just assume Microsoft knows what they're doing. I was going to discuss customer expectations and how they vary when smart phones are involved. But your statement quoted above is simply too good. I submit it as a candidate for the Windows equivalent of Godwin's law[1] but without all negative implications :-). Well said. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
- m_mueller 11y ago
  Thanks. I would agree that the expectation on smartphones is different, but we're still also talking about desktop users. This might be just one of the delicate issues a Software company runs into when trying to do hybrid desktop / mobile OSes, of which I consider Win10 to be the first major one (i.e. with relevant usage numbers).