ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
So from what I understand as long as you upgrade within the first year you can keep it forever?
If it was subscription based then I wouldn't mind, depending on the price. If you think about it windows costs around £70 at the moment and most people will keep their PC for 5 years or less, so anything around £15 or less a year is completely reasonable and I'd actually prefer it, since it costs less upfront when you buy a new pc
My understanding is that this is very similar to the Windows 8 early-adopter low price deal, the difference in this case is that the early-adopter price is free. Once you have Windows 10 installed it will work forever.
The key thing to realise here is that in the past Microsoft could afford to support several versions of Windows at the same time, but with Windows 10 having to run on multiple devices Microsoft cannot now afford to support several versions (and especially versions that are only desktop based (like 7)) so they clearly want everyone on Windows 10. To achieve that they have made it free to everyone with a currently supported version of Windows (i.e. 7 or above) but only for a year to encourage us to upgrade.