James_L
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Re: Hidden cost to Windows 10?
2016/02/25 12:38:23
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The only way around it is that they may instead force ads on you whenever you use the o/s, every time you open a new app, overlays on games etc., and they generate income from ad revenue, or make you pay a monthly fee to remove the ads, which in essence is no different than paying to have a subscription-based o/s with no ads on it.
As I had stated prior in this thread (as well as you pointing this out in your reply above mine) they will begin charging for the OS in many different ways in order to pay for the updates/improvements to the OS itself. They must do this in order to stay financially solvent. You may want to take a look at this particular article. It's interesting to see how many people are blinded by the fact that Microsoft needs to do something in order to maintain their profitability in the ever shrinking OS market. 
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Re: Hidden cost to Windows 10?
2016/02/25 15:52:48
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Nereus
The only way around it is that they may instead force ads on you whenever you use the o/s, every time you open a new app, overlays on games etc., and they generate income from ad revenue, or make you pay a monthly fee to remove the ads, which in essence is no different than paying to have a subscription-based o/s with no ads on it.
As I had stated prior in this thread (as well as you pointing this out in your reply above mine) they will begin charging for the OS in many different ways in order to pay for the updates/improvements to the OS itself. They must do this in order to stay financially solvent. You may want to take a look at this particular article. It's interesting to see how many people are blinded by the fact that Microsoft needs to do something in order to maintain their profitability in the ever shrinking OS market.
ok my lock screen has been the same for long time i have never had an Ad come up on it as of yet and even if i did guess what Microsoft did the same thing with Bing year and years ago so boo who ignore it or disable it simple as that . and you do relaise Microsoft makes more then an OS right so the fsact is with all the other service they provide software or hardware guess what they still make money lots of it they are a Multi billion $ company so the fact being that giving away windows 10 for Free upgrade to all of us the past months in to this summer is chump change to them if they had made us pay for it Quite Beching and moaning about your OS and just use your system
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Re: Hidden cost to Windows 10?
2016/02/25 21:08:34
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notuptome2004
Quite Beching and moaning about your OS and just use your system
LOL, pot meet kettle.
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Re: Hidden cost to Windows 10?
2016/02/25 21:09:46
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notuptome2004
ok my lock screen has been the same for long time i have never had an Ad come up on it as of yet and even if i did guess what Microsoft did the same thing with Bing year and years ago so boo who ignore it or disable it simple as that . and you do relaise Microsoft makes more then an OS right so the fsact is with all the other service they provide software or hardware guess what they still make money lots of it they are a Multi billion $ company so the fact being that giving away windows 10 for Free upgrade to all of us the past months in to this summer is chump change to them if they had made us pay for it
Quite Beching and moaning about your OS and just use your system
Apparently you don't understand that we are free to complain and disagree with the path that Microsoft is taking for an OS of which, by in large, did not need to be created this way. No, no I won't take your advice and just use my system and 'conform' to the updating/forcable upgrade that Microsoft is trying to push to all their 'customers'. Please understand that we, as consumers, certainly are able to discern what we desire and what is not desirable. Your attitude about 'just be quiet and conform' (and I'm just taking your attitude as a whole on this discussion about your disagreements with our assessment) is just the thing that will not only upset others but will, for the most part, keep anyone from taking your opinion seriously. Personally my clients are not moving to the new platform and won't, in future, support this company.
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Re: Hidden cost to Windows 10?
2016/02/26 04:33:42
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http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-subscriptions-arent-happening-heres-why/  The orange part of the furthest column right of this chart shows how much MS makes on retail licensing for Windows. Looks like it is less than $1 billion. This is consumer only, not enterprise. Nobody upgrades their PC. Whatever OS comes on the PC is what people keep. This push for everybody to install Windows 10 will help MS. If people get to W10 faster, MS can stop supporting older versions faster. The number of employees can go down because they don't have to support as many versions (I know laying off people is bad, but it's a business), so MS will probably end up on the plus side of making money. Keep in mind, they are still supporting 6 versions of W7 (Home 32, Pro 32, Ultimate 32, Home 64, Pro 64 and Ultimate 64), 4 versions of W8.1 (Home 32, Pro 32, Home 64 and Pro 64) and 4 versions of W10 (Home 32, Pro 32, Home 64 and Pro 64) and this doesn't include Server. That's 14 versions of Windows. Once everybody is on W10, MS will only have to support 4 versions of Windows.
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