Steve Stone wrote:

On 1/21/2015 2:17 PM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
Want Windows 10? You got it: for free.


There is no such thing as a free lunch. What does Microsoft get out of
all of this?
Articles claim Microsoft is now looking at Windows 10 as a Service. What
does that mean? To me it might mean it will be just another way to suck
up info on what you do with your Windows device up to a mothership in
the cloud, that mothership analyzing that data and selling it to the
highest bidders, perhaps targeting you for custom ads, like the
robocalls on the phone you get when you sit down for dinner.

What M$ gets out of it is usage share. Developers don't develop for an
unpopular OS like the Windows Phone or Windows 8. Microsoft has begged for
people to write apps for the Windows Store but the store still looks like
that mall that went out of business last year.

Enterprise customers will buy Office and so forth but the consumers aren't
going to buy a machine that has a limited amount of software available and
software developers aren't going to write for machines with a limited number
of users. You've got to break the cycle somehow and giving free upgrades is
what they hope will do the trick.