[alert type=blue ]Who is really winning, Microsoft or us?[/alert]
The company took us by surprise and announced that a free Windows 10 upgrade will be available to all the Windows 7, 8, 8.1 users and that too ‘free for the first year’. Call it an insane business strategy, a change of heart, benevolence or whatever, Microsoft has committed to this decision.
You might be concerned about whether this upgrade will be fruitful for non-genuine or pirated Windows version. Well, Microsoft has a provision for that too. For anyone who’s running unlicensed old version (7, 8, 8.1) of the Windows will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 but there’s a catch. All those unlicensed upgrade will continue to be that way, [highlight color=#229CDC ]the upgrade will not change the genuine state of the license[/highlight]. Microsoft doesn’t publish non-genuine Windows. If a device is detected or considered to have an unlicensed Windows before the upgrade, it will continue to be treated the same way after the upgrade is done.
Now another question arises, what would happen after the first year? Would it cost us? The answer is no! The only thing that is going to change after the first year is that it will no longer be a free upgrade rather Microsoft will sell Windows 10 in the old fashion way. Windows 10 users will still get free updates and support for the lifetime of the OS, exactly like past versions of Windows (like XP and Windows 7’s Service Packs, for example).
This product will provide small bread crumbs like updates for its user for the whole year rather than a big service pack at the beginning, maybe that’s one of the reasons for it being a free upgrade. After the first year, Microsoft will launch Windows 10 as a whole service pack and that will cost a reasonable amount to its users.
[divider]Theories about Windows 10[/divider]
1. It is just another desperate move by Microsoft to keep the worldwide masses interested in its product by giving it for free, after the massive failure of Windows 8’s unfamiliar design and user interface.
2. Why free upgrades for pirated copy?– Maybe its just an attempt to stop piracy.
3. Why name it Windows 10 instead of Windows 9?– Maybe to prevent the users to confuse it for Windows 95 or Windows 98.
4. Every alternate version of Windows is a ‘Hit’ like ‘Windows XP’ was a hit, after that ‘Windows Vista’ was a miss, then again Windows 7 was a hit and Window 8 a miss, so it’s an obvious expectation for the next version to be successful .
After running technical and customer previews, Windows 10 is supposedly set to debut both PC and phone version of the OS during summer with improvements like the Web browser, new features like an Intelligent Digital assistant Microsoft Cortana, Holographic 3D designing, Xbox. The very soul of Windows [highlight color=#229CDC ]’The Start Button'[/highlight] will finally return with upgrades and what not.
Summer is coming!