[-44-] Pendragon

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Member Back to Top Post by [-44-] Pendragon on Microsoft really wants everyone on the same version of Windows. It was a little surprising when MS announced that everyone running Windows 7 or 8 would get a free upgrade to Windows 10. That's a lot of people but when you think about it that's not everyone. Outside of the US and Europe Legit copies of Windows are scarce. Thats a massive install base that will not be running Windows 10. South America, Russia, India and China along with everywhere in between not running windows 10. That's a problem for Microsoft so they have just announced that the free upgrade will be extended to pirated installs of Windows as well.



At this point a sane person would just give up on the whole licensing thing and just give the OS away for free. Live off integrated services as the revenue stream. This is how many Linux distros and open source projects work. It's the direction game engine makers have gone. It's the approach Google has taken so successfully with Android and ChromeOS.