Windows 11

So there is a lot of speculation going all over the internet about Windows 11. I was thinking Windows 10 was going to be last version of Microsoft Windows, and they would just update it with new features like what Apple has done. Either way, I just hope Microsoft lets it be a free upgrade for us loyal Windows 10 users, especially those of us that aren't downloading the early leaked build of it that isn't official from Microsoft. But in all, it shouldn't come as a cost to anyone running Windows 10. That would not be fair of Microsoft to do that to their customers.

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@Paul Black believed it would be free.

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Jesse Williams said:

I just hope Microsoft lets it be a free upgrade for us loyal Windows 10 users

Loyalty does not necessarily gain you something for free.

The data age has ushered in a new business model. Very often things are given away for free, to be paid for by using your data and/or by throwing advertising at you.

z3r010 said:

Do you expect your car manufacturer to give you a free car every time they replace your model? Free TV every time yours becomes obsolete?
Development and support need paying for from somewhere, if they just give it away free, where will that money come from?

That's why it's not just freelancers who offer free software. The big, money-making companies do it, too.

margrave55 said:

Very often things are given away for free

... except hardware.

z3r010 said:

Do you expect your car manufacturer to give you a free car every time they replace your model? Free TV every time yours becomes obsolete?

I know no analogy is perfect -- but as analogies go that is painfully past acceptable.

Do Apple users expect free OS upgrades? Yes. Linux Users? Yes. Windows 10 users who were told charged upgrades are over? Yes. Do iPhone and Android users expect free upgrades? Yes.

z3r010 said:

Development and support need paying for from somewhere, if they just give it away free, where will that money come from?

Elsewhere. You're talking about a filthy rich company. And if they want to make even more money they should take a page out of Steve Job's playbook: lower prices so that all can participate.

$1 a song was a radical idea back in the day. Where a CD could cost up to $20 that same 'disc' on iTunes was $9.99.

Microsoft Cloud storage? $19.99 a year for half a 500GBs and $29.99 for a terabyte. Almost everyone would do it. Maybe another $19.99 to get Microsoft Office access. Right now their prices are greedy and stupid.