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Re:Cyber Sleuths Track Hacker to China’s Military by happywolf on Thursday September 24, 2015 @12:08PM (#10272424)
MS technically has ability to shut off and cripple any pirated Windows over the wire if it wants to. But in this case, it has chosen not to for a lot of Asian countries. The reason? Market share.

It wants users to get used to how Windows works, versus to other alternatives like Linux, Mac, etc.

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Re:Cyber Sleuths Track Hacker to China’s Military by imglorp on Thursday September 24, 2015 @01:58PM (#10273315)
Good observation. MS is willing to pay a high price for market share.

For example, nobody wanted Windows Mobile, so they paid Nokia to install it. Failing that (<4% mkt share), they bought Nokia.

X-Box is another product they're paying customers to take, in exchange for living room share. It's lost billions overall since its beginning.

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Re:Cyber Sleuths Track Hacker to China’s Military by tellthetruth1 on Thursday September 24, 2015 @01:52PM (#10273269)
Freemium model.
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