Ashbringer
Supreme [H]ardness
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Cause if you have to build another PC you have to buy another copy? Not important for majority of PC owners out there who don't build PCs but for people like us, it's a costly $100 to add to your build.First, who cares if you get it for free THEN have to pay after you've already got it free?
People were using the phrase "Worst Buy" buy refereeing to Best Buy for around as long as people have been declaring the year of desktop Linux. So not that clever.
There is no year of linux. It's a gradual process to get people to accept the OS for regular use. For the most part, you can except for gaming. GTAV and Witcher 3 was released and no Linux version in sight.
Funny that you should say this, cause there's rumor that Microsoft may dump Windows Phone OS in favor of Android. But one doesn't have to look towards Android for Linux supremacy, even the desktop has some Microsoft attention. .NET is on Linux now. Visual Studio for Linux. Don't forget Raspberry Pi 2 has a crummy Version of Windows for it that nobody will likely use, which is a direct response to Pi having always used Linux.I sincerely doubt this. There isn't some mass exodus to Linux waiting in the wings if they charge $40 again (like what I paid for Win8 upgrades) or even full price. MS's worst competition is MS - in the form of Windows 7.
In America the worst competition for Microsoft is themselves, but not in other countries. There's a growing interest in using linux due to lack of trust towards American made products. It'll be like Xbox where popular in the states, but not so much elsewhere.