Oh, well that’s official, then.
And my cynical side … ? Is noting that whole ‘free’ aspect: Mac fan that I am, my first thought is that MS are copying Apple, who’ve been giving away the current version of OS X for about five years, at a guess.
AND taking a leaf out of the open source movement’s book. Every shade of Linux has been handed out of the asking for even longer.
By the sounds of it, though … ? Microsoft, under its new CEO, Satya Nadella, seems to be trying something new.
Going for hardware sales, á la Apple, with the various shades of Xbox. And going for offering the Windows 10 for free: with highly pricey technical support, á la Canonical: who’ve been doing the same with Ubuntu for about a decade, at least.
Good luck to them.
But personally?
Either my next computer’s a Mac … or I’m getting an iPad … !
~≈fi≈~
