A Query ?
"Well, a senior MS bod made the unequivocal statement that folk getting W10 now will NEVER pay."
I'm taking that statement literally and surmise that people upgrading to this iteration of Win 10 within the "Free upgrade" period will not pay.
This leaves the people who install/upgrade after the promotional period ?
Software as a service - In other words a subscription model (Microsoft are a for profit business).
Users are locked in to a subscription in perpetuity and there's nothing contradictory in Microsoft saying at some future stage after a number of iterations of the upgrade process, well its in effect a New Operating system through evolution - Please Pay.
Up to now for single users; you paid for the (Licence of ) an operating system and a stated time interval of support, either indirectly or directly by purchase.(Bulk agreements not withstanding).
The new revenue model subserviates the user in time for ever. A Master/Slave relationship where Microsoft hold all the cards and remember this will apply to Outlook/Office and other utilities in time.
Edit: Heaven knows what they might do if you UN-install Win 10 at a future stage.
Win 8.1 will be my last Microsoft operating system. Loose Rivits its profit that motivates Microsoft to Pi$$$ off half the world. As a company they about to fail through a false belief in their own invincibility.
CAT III
Last edited by Guest 112233; 25th May 2016 at 11:45.
Reason: Edit: clause