Re:Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windo...
by tracker1 on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @01:25PM
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Most of those that qualify for the free version open-source, individual, and businesses under $1 million USD/year gross are a very small part of the money they made, and likely creates far more benefit to mindshare than the losses they're seeing.
They are also giving away visual studio now which is part of >1bn$ development business division