Microsoft to give away Windows 10, unveils hologram glasses

[mashman]

Investors aren't chuffed

[Scuba_Steve]

Pretty big move for MS especially considering something like 60% of their cash moneys comes from Windows

[Gremlin]

Pretty big move for MS especially considering something like 60% of their cash moneys comes from Windows

Only for 1 year though. How will the free work? Normally upgrades from an existing Windows doesn't play nicely. Fresh installs are better.

Businesses won't shift quickly to 10 either. Lot of testing to be done etc.

Interesting... but the devil is in the details. Many didn't shift to 8, clearly MS wants to try and remove barriers to moving to 10 (like eliminating 9)

[SPman]

Free for a year, then probably subscription base - ie after a year, if you want to keep your Windows OS, start paying........Hmm...Linux is starting to look like an idea after all.....

[mashman]

Pretty big move for MS especially considering something like 60% of their cash moneys comes from Windows

"The 'free' strategy is designed to put Windows in as many devices as possible. The company would then make up for any lost revenue by selling services such as Office over the Internet, or cloud."

Office 365, Sharepoint Online, Azure blah blah blah... There'll probably be no windeez in 10 years as we'll all be back on dumb terminals.

[Reckless]

I'll upgrade as long as there's no Annual subscription.

I use Windows 7 pro on my main comp and Laptop and 8.1 on my Tablet.
Yet I use none of the other MS products.
Use Open office, Chrome and Thunderbird which sync all my calenders, contacts, appointments etc via Google Calender to all devices.
Their logic is possibly flawed as there is generally no need to have Office or outlook?
Was thinking of Office 365 for a while as The Annual subscription rate has come down heaps but the system I have running now runs so well its not worth the upset?

[Scuba_Steve]

"The 'free' strategy is designed to put Windows in as many devices as possible. The company would then make up for any lost revenue by selling services such as Office over the Internet, or cloud."

Office 365, Sharepoint Online, Azure blah blah blah... There'll probably be no windeez in 10 years as we'll all be back on dumb terminals.

Yea I saw that, most other reports left that detail out leaving speculation for 1yr trial or 1yr upgrade [with new PC] etc
Their strategy might work... Alot of consumers don't buy Windows either they "obtain it through less respected means" or it comes with new PC so to give it for free will probably have alot upgrading & you'll probably see a MUCH bigger push of their sub-par app store; then businesses, like Gremlin said, won't upgrade straight away so they'll miss the free period & have to pay (which someone tells me is a new inflated price?) so it could be a win overall for MS, who knows

[AllanB]

I'm 50 next month. I know - I type like a 40 year old - cheers guys.

When I was young the comics (now called graphic novels for you younger readers) all advertised X-ray glasses - the advert always had a picture of a guy checking out a girl!

[Akzle]

jesus fucking fuck.

One day i'll get windows 7. Probably when its abandonware.

Srsly, who the fuck pays to/ gets a new fucking OS every, what, 3 years??

[mashman]

Yea I saw that, most other reports left that detail out leaving speculation for 1yr trial or 1yr upgrade [with new PC] etc
Their strategy might work... Alot of consumers don't buy Windows either they "obtain it through less respected means" or it comes with new PC so to give it for free will probably have alot upgrading & you'll probably see a MUCH bigger push of their sub-par app store; then businesses, like Gremlin said, won't upgrade straight away so they'll miss the free period & have to pay (which someone tells me is a new inflated price?) so it could be a win overall for MS, who knows

All fair points... I wonder how MSDN is going to fit in with their strategy?

[Tazz]

If they combine it with stopping updates for 7 people will move. It's the only reason a lot of businesses finally moved from XP to 7 last year.

I've never paid for windoze (just use the bundled OS but cleaned up) however I do pay for Office 365 and as suggested I think subscription will be their direction. More potential money in it too from business users.

[TheDemonLord]

Their logic is possibly flawed as there is generally no need to have Office or outlook?

it depends - in the corporate world, Office and Outlook are standard - there is just so much functionality with Exchange, AD, Sharepoint etc. that means that anything else isn't worth it

[pzkpfw]

I'll upgrade as long as there's no Annual subscription.

I use Windows 7 pro on my main comp and Laptop and 8.1 on my Tablet.
Yet I use none of the other MS products.
Use Open office, Chrome and Thunderbird which sync all my calenders, contacts, appointments etc via Google Calender to all devices.
Their logic is possibly flawed as there is generally no need to have Office or outlook?
Was thinking of Office 365 for a while as The Annual subscription rate has come down heaps but the system I have running now runs so well its not worth the upset?

What keeps you on Windows at all? From this you sound like a candidate for Linux or even a Chromebook.

[Akzle]

it depends - in the corporate world, Office and Outlook are standard - there is just so much functionality with Exchange, AD, Sharepoint etc. that means that anything else isn't worth it

openoffice> apache office> ms office >

exchange, i'll givem, not that there aren't alternatives. stacks and stacks of free alternatives. but for an existing deployment is fuckloads easier than switching, and it isn't that offensive.

AD is an horrendous piece of shit (like much other M$)

sharepoint... yeah, not since they invented this thing called the internet...

[Akzle]

What keeps you on Windows at all? From this you sound like a candidate for Linux or even a Chromebook.

google=jews.
linux=not jews.

you decide.