Windows 10: Microsoft Needs to Kill Windows 8 to Make Windows 10 a Hit, Says HP

The attraction of Win10 is fairly easy to understand. If you own Win7/8.x, you have until 7/29/16 to upgrade to Windows 10 free of charge. There will not be a Win11 or 12, etc., so if Win7/8 users don't take advantage of the free upgrade to Win10 they will have to buy a license for Win10 when Microsoft stops supporting their current OS. That really makes no sense at all, considering you can get Win10 now, in perpetuity, and free of charge, if you upgrade from a retail version of Win7/8. Additionally, from this point forward, while Win7/8 will continue to get security updates for the remainder of their lifespans, all new features and advances will go into Windows10.

I won't buy a laptop or a pre-built desktop precisely because of components being overpriced and often custom-made & requiring specialty OEM-only drivers (regardless of OS.) For personal use I have built my own from hand-picked components since 1995...*Wink Dell cannot compete, unfortunately. OEMs are strictly for people who either cannot or will not build their own desktops, or for people who want laptops or other non-user-upgradable/serviceable machines, imo.

 

Look here for starters:

Windows 10 :
Amazon.com: Windows 10

Amazon.co.uk: Windows 10

Suchergebnis auf Amazon.de für: Windows 10

Windows 10 - Newegg.com

Basically where ever you are in the world it is about the same price and 8.1 and cheaper than 7.

 

It is how much OEMs pay MS for Windows 10 that hasn't been leaked yet...

 

That may very be true but it is nonsense to believe MS can predict what the technology landscape will be like when all support for 8.1 expires in 2023. The whole Free thing is just a ploy to get rid of the earlier OS's IMO. In 5 years or 10 years or further out the entire computing paradigm may be radically changed so in 2015 to say there will not be a W-11 or W-12 or any new OS's is meaningless. If MS effectively transforms the OS into a service that service will always be available and everyone will pay a price one way or another and that includes everyone that accepts the Free Updrade now.

I will stay with 8.1 as it works perfectly and more than meets my needs.

 

For crying out loud there are still people using windows XP yet. 2023 is quite a ways off who knows by then alot of us might not even be still alive. No one can predict what technology will be like or do in the future.

 

for now windows 8.1 should stay.

still some issues on windows 10 that dont show in windows 8.1

I think windows 10 needs couple years to mature.



what will we be saying about windows 10 in 2025 when it support ends? if it ends.

 

Sorry, but 2023 will be here in an eye blink. If I go the same distance backwards that's 2008. To me, that's yesterday. I was running XP then, and I was still running it two years ago. To me, it pays to plan well ahead, so at least you have some sort of road map.

 

It's gotten hard to beat price on OEMs. Advantage to building is getting EXACTLY the parts you want. And I am all laptops these days, so I havent built in a while now.

My son and I will likely build a gaming rig in the next year or so. He is 8, and understands technology well. And video games are his life.

 

You know that Satya was born in India right? No Offense *Smile

After Bill left I felt sad not only about him leaving, but also nervous about another CEO or Chief Executive screwing everything in it's path. Long story made short I updated to Win10 on my pops laptop (th1), but then things went horribly wrong. Very very wrong I faced many issues with incompatibility that I had no choice to wipe and install 7 on it again.

He said to me no way he was going to fork out 700 dollars just to go on Windows 10.

 

OEM's cant sell MAC's. Not that was a Steve Jobs thing but they haven't allowed it yet so it sounds like Cook feels the same. MS has trained most of the world on MS OS's and enterprise would have to start the drive away from MS (Won't happen).

 

You are right on that. It has always been their business model. I agree that it is unlikely to happen, but maybe it is worth a cold call to Apple to present an unsolicited proposal. They have nothing to lose. MS is a competitor as well as a 'partner'.