Microsoft finally prices Windows correctly.
Microsoft to Provide Free Upgrades to Windows 10. The article doesn't discuss how the different "subtractive" editions will work. I suppose you get a free upgrade to whichever edition you are curr...
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I think the pricing is the smartest thing Microsoft has done in a long time- free upgrade for a year after release will keep them from having to maintain support as long as they did with XP- if the large scale corporate licenses have the same pricing, businesses are going to tend to upgrade.
They do have to do something- while Windows is the dominant OS on the desktop, when you look at all "computing devices", the figure I have seen lately is around 15%.
My problem is MS is trying to put in an OS things that can be done on app level- the Chrome browser is an example- Chrome is synced across my Windows install, my iOS devices and my Linux boxes, and I can easily log in on my Dad's iMac and create an account which will sync on it.
Some of the new UI stuff looks pretty good- the holographic stuff looks killer, but I'm still waiting on the revolutionary file system that was promised for Vista, but still has not arrived. Other than the holographic stuff, everything else is simple copying of features that have been around for years for OSX and Linux- on Linux the core OS is very much separate from the desktop environment, and all of it is infinitely tweakable, offering actions and features that Windows still hasn't caught up with.
They do have to do something- while Windows is the dominant OS on the desktop, when you look at all "computing devices", the figure I have seen lately is around 15%.
My problem is MS is trying to put in an OS things that can be done on app level- the Chrome browser is an example- Chrome is synced across my Windows install, my iOS devices and my Linux boxes, and I can easily log in on my Dad's iMac and create an account which will sync on it.
Some of the new UI stuff looks pretty good- the holographic stuff looks killer, but I'm still waiting on the revolutionary file system that was promised for Vista, but still has not arrived. Other than the holographic stuff, everything else is simple copying of features that have been around for years for OSX and Linux- on Linux the core OS is very much separate from the desktop environment, and all of it is infinitely tweakable, offering actions and features that Windows still hasn't caught up with.
