I knew there was a catch, $7 per month to use Windows 10!
I wonder if it will eventually apply to the people who upgraded for free?
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The only problem I can foresee with the subscription model is the computers that are not connected to the 'net. I would suspect that there are many enterprise computers that do not have access to the 'net. How the subscription is going to work with them is going to be interesting.
I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
Anyone that has taken the free upgrade will have access to newer builds of Windows 10 f.o.c. for at least the next 5 years.
Enterprises can purchase traditional 'full price up front' licences, or can go down the subscription path - their choice. Businesses that decide to run with subscription will be able to run in house activation servers as they currently can for various Microsoft enterprise bits n pieces. If they don't want to do that it is trivial to set up a proxy for the OS to allow it to contact Microsoft's activation servers as needed, and nothing else but those activation servers. This is completely separate to any proxy access that a normal user may or may not have.
Windows 2012 and later support Windows 10 servicing mode (ie a Windows 10 PC can do a version upgrade by pulling from an inhouse Windows Update server) under the full control of the company's IT staff.
ahhhhhh....Linux Mint, my new flavour
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"Only US$7 a month" adds up very quickly. If I'd been paying that for my venerable old copy of Windows XP that's been running in a VM since XP first came out, I'd have shelled out a lot of money by now.
lsemmens (22-07-16)
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