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Re:Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windo... by ximeng on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @11:46AM (#9226301)
Making hardware - Surface, Dongle PC: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Unveils-Windows-8-1...

They are also giving away visual studio now which is part of >1bn$ development business division

Re:Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windo... by tracker1 on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @01:25PM (#9227139)
Most of those that qualify for the free version open-source, individual, and businesses under $1 million USD/year gross are a very small part of the money they made, and likely creates far more benefit to mindshare than the losses they're seeing.