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by mdaniel 1963 days ago
A common refrain is that if you're not paying, you are the product, but does Microsoft still charge for Win10? My last contact with it was that I was offered a free upgrade from 8, and I don't recall 8 having these issues, so maybe that's why it was free.

Anyway, when I saw the monster price tag for Enterprise, I suspected that is what they determined was the cost of loss of analytics
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chipsa 1963 days ago
It's not just analytics, but also expected level of support.

You can still buy win 10. The major point of the free win 8 upgrade was to let them avoid supporting the old version, which indicates the value of it to them was more than the cost of getting everyone to buy a new license.

Note that the free upgrade is not supposed to be transferable. New computer means new license, so you gotta pay.

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