* Posts by Wightman

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Windows 10 marks the end of 'pay once, use forever' software

Wightman

What Short Memories You All Have

Microsoft have not stopped selling operating systems. All this jabber about patches, linux and direct X is missing the bigger picture. Windows 10 is free as a damage limitation excercise. Microsoft have a year to stop it being worse than Windows 7 and a year to make it the most popular OS installed out there. After which it is no longer free. So all new PC's that are shipped will have to have a paid up copy of Win X, which you will also note is an interesting number to stick with i.e. OS X, WIN X...

Microsoft are nobodies fool, despite massive evidence to the contrary i.e. Win 2000, Win Vista, Win 8.x.

If they can get us to switch because it is free and runs the latest tech, they will suceed.