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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 479180" data-attributes="member: 6277">No, from what I have read the update is free and will remain that way for those you update in the first year. Also when you buy a new computer with Win10 installed the updates from now on will be free. From what I read Microsoft&nbsp; did not sell very many copies of any OS. The main income was from new computer installs. The free update will save them money in the long run by having everyone on the same OS version. IT will also be better for software companies since they will not have to be backward compatible. When the present life time runs out on all OS versions except Win10 the overhead of the OS will be a lot smaller and the same goes for all software. New software written will only run on the latest version of Win10 or whatever the latest update is. In the long run it SHOULD be better for everyone. (I did say SHOULD so no bashing of Windows or Microsoft needlessly) </blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 479180, member: 6277"] No, from what I have read the update is free and will remain that way for those you update in the first year. Also when you buy a new computer with Win10 installed the updates from now on will be free. From what I read Microsoft did not sell very many copies of any OS. The main income was from new computer installs. The free update will save them money in the long run by having everyone on the same OS version. IT will also be better for software companies since they will not have to be backward compatible. When the present life time runs out on all OS versions except Win10 the overhead of the OS will be a lot smaller and the same goes for all software. New software written will only run on the latest version of Win10 or whatever the latest update is. In the long run it SHOULD be better for everyone. [I](I did say SHOULD so no bashing of Windows or Microsoft needlessly) [/I] [/QUOTE]

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