Comments on: Users Pirating Windows Will Also Be Able To Upgrade To Windows 10 For Free http://www.vrworld.com/2015/03/19/users-pirating-windows-will-also-be-able-to-upgrade-to-windows-10-for-free/ Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Repainted Thinner http://www.vrworld.com/2015/03/19/users-pirating-windows-will-also-be-able-to-upgrade-to-windows-10-for-free/#comment-10674 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 06:10:00 +0000 http://www.vrworld.com/?p=50336#comment-10674 Allowing users of pirated copies to upgrade to W10 looks crazy on the surface, but it is a brilliant idea. My guess is, Microsoft no longer views an OS as product that makes money – for them, it becomes a platform on which to market products that make money.

Most of the OS piracy likely is in China and India. They are forced in to pirating the OS because a Windows license probably costs more than an average monthly salary. And most likely, they will upgrade on-masse while the offer lasts, which would allow Microsoft to show a massive adoption rate for W10.

Showing a massive adoption rate would help Microsoft silence the army of Apple-paid journalists who already have penned articles on a “W10 flop” and give boost to its own army of paid-journalists who will wax lyrical about the W10 adoption.

Now that gets Microsoft right on track for attracting developers to code apps on the platform, giving them the products that earns money for Microsoft simply through distribution.

]]> By: UpTide http://www.vrworld.com/2015/03/19/users-pirating-windows-will-also-be-able-to-upgrade-to-windows-10-for-free/#comment-10635 Fri, 20 Mar 2015 14:35:00 +0000 http://www.vrworld.com/?p=50336#comment-10635 Ok, who has been giving the people at Microsoft ecstasy? I’m starting to wonder if this isn’t going to be a ‘pay $100 a year’ type of plan.

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