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It's FREE WINDOWS 10 time: 29 July is D-Day, yells Microsoft

TheVogon

Re: How many of you Windows user will be...

"To be fair I'm pretty sure it's a major deal for Microsoft and shareholders are going to take some convincing."

It really isn't. Consumer OS sales are worth much less than business ones - and most are heavily subsidised OEM versions anyway. Microsoft will likely only need to sell a single Office 365 or OneDrive subscription, a few Windows Store apps, or have you use Bing (even via Cortana) for a few years on each PC to make more money than a home license would have cost...

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