What We Know About Windows 10

Subscription Based Windows 10

There’s very little Microsoft has let out about the sales of their upcoming Windows 10 OS. The only thing we know is that there will possibly be a marked change from how the other Windows wares were sold on the market. Also, there’s enough reason to believe that the prices will be lower as well.

We’ve been getting information from two fronts: WZOR, and Mary Jo Foley. The former is well known as a Russian group/individual that leaks the latest information about upcoming tech releases; while Mary Jo Foley – a journalist and Microsoft expert – is a more respectable source. According to WZOR, the base OS is a free offering, with extras costing more as you go. Under this, you’d have the enterprise features as the additional part, much like in the Office 365 software suite.

But Foley says that even though the base OS will be free, this will be without the desktop. This projection is in keeping with the current policy Microsoft has, which says that beyond a certain size, products are automatically let off the licensing fee hook. But it remains to be seen what the company will charge for the desktop, and how it would do this.

There’s the chance of a Windows 365 service offering, going by the leaked documents from Microsoft. Along that direction, it looks like the OS is bound for a subscription-based outlook. And there’s also been no conclusive word on the Windows 10 price yet. You hear rumors aplenty that Microsoft is setting to offer it for free to all Windows 8 customers. If so, this is one thing which that demographic can be genuinely happy about.

Windows 10 Operating System

Meanwhile, it’s been announced that January will see an event for press and developers, where the latest in the new OS will be unveiled. It’s set to happen right after the Consumer Electronics Show in LA, and being who they are, the company is probably planning to siphon all the excitement from CES.

Last month’s presentation from the tech giant still left a lot conspicuously uncovered, and although the tech preview is something to go by, there’s no saying that most of it will figure in the final product. It’s a staging device for what’s coming next, and the only thing we can be reasonably sure of is the cross platform “Continuum” feature, because that has been at the centre of Microsoft’s one-OS mantra.