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I think Windows 10 is pretty much free as in beer for most ordinary users so the wallet threat is pretty flat. Why is it free? First of all because they are sc
by danieldk 11y ago
I think Windows 10 is pretty much free as in beer for most ordinary users so the wallet threat is pretty flat.
Why is it free? First of all because they are scared to death that iOS and Android will eat their lunch in the consumer space. Secondly, because they want to sell services and SaaS (Office 365, etc.).
For the latter part, you can certainly vote with your wallet.
- brudgers 11y agoAndriod and iOS are probably not very good evidence that the road to fat quarterly returns is paved with sales services and SAAS subscriptions over a free operating system base layer...at least in the consumer space. I'd say RedHat/Fedora/CentOS ecosystem is probably a more likely business model. Microsoft was already in that space (e.g. Mono).