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Windows 10 free upgrade offer ends on July 29th
300 million of us slurped it for free. Anyone left willing to pay
US$119/£99.99?
Microsoft has announced that the free all-you-can-eat Windows 10 upgrade
buffet will close forever on July 29, and that after that you'll have to pay
for all the fun of its latest operating system.
US$119 is the price Redmond has set for the Home version of the operating
system. A sales person in a live chat session on the Microsoft online store
told us the UK price will be £99.99 while Australians will pay the quaint
price of AU$161.10.
Microsoft always promised the free upgrade was not forever, suggesting it
would run for a year. The program's been a success: the company today said
300 million devices now run the OS and it looks to have captured between 15
and 20 per cent market share
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/02/desktop_os_market_share_april_2016/>.
Windows 8.x has been the big loser, but even Windows 7 use is declining in
business
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/05/windows_7s_grip_on_the_enterprise_desktop_is_loosening/>.
Redmond's now hustling the holdouts to upgrade in the few remaining weeks
Windows 10 will be gratis.
The upgrade program's been quite generous: even a Netbook that shipped with
Windows XP
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/08/remember_netbooks_windows_10_makes_them_good_again/>
qualified for the program, and Windows 10 made it behave rather better than
it had for years.
Microsoft says Windows 10's launch has gone better than any it's done for
years, too, with many millions signing up for the services it offers and some
six billion queries sent Cortana's way since launch. ®
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