Microsoft wants me to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. Whey do they want me to do this? They are not nice people. I will stay with Windows 7 and also browse with Firefox.
Microsoft wants me to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. Whey do they want me to do this?
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Long story. Some of it is filled with paranoia and doubt, depending on who you get it from. I’ll try to summarize.
Microsoft saw phones and tablets overtaking desktop computers at some point, and wanted to get in on it before completely missing the bus.
Their original codebase and interface was written with only desktops in mind. They wanted to make an operating system (OS) that could work with phones and tablets.
This presented a problem with their developers - the people who wrote Windows programs. It threatened to split developers into two different camps: the desktop camp and the mobile (phone & tablet) camp.
Microsoft decided to try and keep the developers in one camp, so they could essentially write one program and it would work on everything: desktops, tablets, and phones.
Microsoft came out with Windows 8 to do just that. The bad thing is, when they changed the interface to be more friendly to phones and tablets, they changed the desktop interface too much for Windows users, almost like they didn’t care about them anymore.
Windows 10 is an attempt to get the desktop interface back to usable for the 20+ year Windows customer, while keeping the other stuff that made it friendly to mobile computing.
Why do they want people to upgrade Windows 7 and 8 free to 10? That would mean less work for Microsoft. Instead of having to update two or three different operating systems, they could just update one and be done with it. That would mean abandoning 7 and 8, though.
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I will stay with Windows 7 and also browse with Firefox.
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Staying with 7 has been the standard response from every company I’ve worked for. None of them want 10.