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Re:Putting my VB6 Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store by TheRealDunkirk on Monday October 03, 2016 @08:17AM (#12626804)
You're suggesting you have inside information that this is, in fact, their roadmap. It wouldn't surprise me. And it makes me all the more willing to pay a premium for hardware which runs macOS, if it would make Apple NOT go down the same roads.
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Re:Putting my VB6 Windows Apps in the Windows 10 Store by Zelmor on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @04:24PM (#12639151)
They will do away with the Windows 10 name in two-three year's time and just call it "Windows", it being their final operating system product. All iterations and patching can be done via their update services.

At the same time, the OS will be made free-for-download, not just upgrade, since they have already made the bulk profits from sales. Focus will shift to spreading their base product, the OS, to everyone and live off of services they provide within their ecosystem. All products, enterprise and otherwise, will move towards a SaaS structure, where they will attempt to push pre-made packages onto customers big and small alike. Office 365 was the pilot.

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