Notice the last bit? Yep, Microsoft will still offer paid features and upgrades for enterprise, the one market they can count on.Įnterprise has been stuck in this time-lapse where Windows XP is still acceptable, but throughout the past half decade, we have seen a steady move to the new age-old option: Windows 7, which will probably last longer than Windows XP if Microsoft doesn’t hit a home-run with Windows 10. It looks like Microsoft will take a note from Apple’s book and make Windows 10 (also Windows 9) free for all consumers. All eyes are on Microsoft next year, in 2011 the team screwed up by offering a mobile-like experience to Windows customers with Windows 8, alongside pricing it rather highly, compared to Apple who decided to drop the price of OS X and make it free to all desktop users on the platform.
