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"Clocky" <notgonna@happen.com> wrote in message 
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> On 3/06/2015 1:22 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>
>>
>> "felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message
>> news:ct7455F645gU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> On 03-June-2015 7:51 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message
>>>> news:ct54d9Fkl9tU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>> On 02-June-2015 3:22 PM, SG1 wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:ct4ncdFhls0U2@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is everyone going to get their free copy?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just replied on the W7 Ult machine will have to fire up the others
>>>>>> to check. At this stage will be
>>>>>> 5 copies.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> why are they doing this?
>>>>
>>>> Because all their competition does that now.
>>
>>> what competition?
>>
>> The Mac OS-X, iOS, android, Linux.
>>
>
>>> everyone uses M$
>>
>> Not anymore now that so many are
>> using tablets and smartphones now.
>>
>
> That's true though most I know still have a home PC at this stage.

Plenty I know don’t use them much at all anymore.

> I guess they are wanting to hang on to that market for as long as 
> possible.

MS has noticed that they never did get that many upgrading
and that almost all of their sales was with new hardware.

> Linux on the desktop is effectively dead

Nope, just a microscopic share of the desktop market.

> and is of no consequence.

It is what runs on the absolute vast bulk of
tablets and smartphones and even Macs now.

>>> except maybe large commercial organizations or corporations. goverments?

>> Quite a few of the more rabid fanatics do use linux now.

> Hardly anyone uses Linux on the desktop now and never really did.

Yes, but that is because few use desktops anymore.

>>>>> It's unpreceedented for M$ to give away an operating system.

>>>> Its unprecedented for all their competition to do that too.

>>>>> what's the catch?

>>>> There is no catch.

>>> but we're talking about M$ :)

>> They don’t get to have any catch now that all
>> their competition is giving upgrades away now.

>> MS has just decided to go with the flow and only get any money
>> for the OS that comes with the new hardware people buy

> Well, I'm still going to wait for user feedback before installing just the 
> same.

Sure, no reason not to, there isn't any dramatic advantage with it. 

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