I wonder if it will update to my Enterprice version for free or is that only for the unusable "home edition"?
Parasondox said:
Its like that fool I saw who missed Doctor Who special and said "Oh well, I will just torrent". ITS ON IPLAYER FOR FREE, STUPID!!!
He may have torrented it for 2 reasons:
1. He did not/could not deal with stupidity of "IPLAYER"
2. torrents have better quality.
Ajarat said:
Why is MS so horny to give out Win10 for free? What about Win10 is going to make people "realize the value of properly licensing Windows"? After all, my priate-friends Windows are Licensed, just not properly.
Is this going to contain "snitch-DRM"?
Am I, er... are they going to get pop-up ads periodically interrupting my, ahem... their gaming-sessions?
How much privacy can we actually expect, and when are we going to hear "What did you expect, you got the OS for free... We had to make money somehow," not that I have ever expected a modicum of privacy from MS products, that is.
Market share and catch. Windows is not a money maker for MS, its all the products that rely on windows that is. if you get 10% market share of windows users you are going to sell more copies of office, lightbeam and other stuff.
Also there had to be a catch, such as advertisement placement in windows or something. they already tried to trick people into making online accounts where you cant even login without being connected to the internet. they might disable local accounts completely and tie you to always online DRM.
As far as populs go MS products had the least of them lately, which is surprisingly nice.
Flammablezeus said:
Microsoft can't even tell the difference between legitimate and illegitimate copies. I've seen the whole "your copy of Windows is not genuine" thing so many times on multiple PCs, all running genuine Windows.
According to Arstechnia, around 13% of detected pirated copies are false positives. thats a horrifyingly high number.
OLAS said:
Ah, Microsoft doing something non-dickish again? Of course everyone's going to assume, without evidence, that they must have a nefarious motive underlying it to screw us all.
Same thing would happend if Ubisoft or EA did it. when you have a history of dicking your costumers over for decades, they tend not to trust you.