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<blockquote data-quote="drkrack" data-source="post: 2046854" data-attributes="member: 16974"><p>You're very right, Android has nearly replaced windows as most popular OS. Laptop & Desktop sales dipping year after year. Other than hardware spec wars & mimicking mobile OS, nothing exciting is happening in desktops. </p><p></p><p>Android and iOS are free with the hardware you buy, even the updates are free later on. You practically pay only once for any software on mobile platform and it's free for the entire device lifespan.</p><p></p><p>Mac understood this problem early on and made their last OS update free. Since they control the hardware of Mac OS, it hardly affects their revenues. They can easily update their devices for free for the entire lifespan of the device. </p><p></p><p>MS is caught in a catch 22 situation, their earnings depend solely on software sales, they can't make it completely free. They want to make it free for at least home users to keep their domination. They can't be more transparent on licensing policy currently because they don't want to loose on revenues from their corporate customers. This trend is going to continue from MS till maximum people adopt to Windows 10.</p><p></p><p>They'll finally come out with a licensing policy similar to mobile OSs sooner or later. You may get free Windows license with expensive high end motherboards soon, because activation is tied to a hardware IDs . </p><p></p><p>So I don't think MS will do this mistake of cracking down on home users for pirated software, they simply can't afford anything like this, as dependency on Desktop OS is reducing day by day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drkrack, post: 2046854, member: 16974"] You're very right, Android has nearly replaced windows as most popular OS. Laptop & Desktop sales dipping year after year. Other than hardware spec wars & mimicking mobile OS, nothing exciting is happening in desktops. Android and iOS are free with the hardware you buy, even the updates are free later on. You practically pay only once for any software on mobile platform and it's free for the entire device lifespan. Mac understood this problem early on and made their last OS update free. Since they control the hardware of Mac OS, it hardly affects their revenues. They can easily update their devices for free for the entire lifespan of the device. MS is caught in a catch 22 situation, their earnings depend solely on software sales, they can't make it completely free. They want to make it free for at least home users to keep their domination. They can't be more transparent on licensing policy currently because they don't want to loose on revenues from their corporate customers. This trend is going to continue from MS till maximum people adopt to Windows 10. They'll finally come out with a licensing policy similar to mobile OSs sooner or later. You may get free Windows license with expensive high end motherboards soon, because activation is tied to a hardware IDs . So I don't think MS will do this mistake of cracking down on home users for pirated software, they simply can't afford anything like this, as dependency on Desktop OS is reducing day by day. [/QUOTE]
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