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Originally Posted by wodin
Ahem!
I pay for every OS and application I have on multiple computers. It might be peanuts to M$ but it's a considerable amount of money for me.
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I was referring specifically to Windows. Applications are another matter.
The vast majority of users historically did not directly purchase Windows. It came pre-installed on PCs they bought, and the price of the machine included the cost per machine for the Windows license the PC vendor got from Microsoft to let them bundle it.
The vast majority of users got a new version of Windows because they bought a new machine that came with a new version of Windows.
Very few upgraded in place, and purchased a new version of Windows to do so.
If you are one who did, you are one of a very small fraction of Windows users worldwide.
When your installed base for your software is billions of machines, what any individual user might want won't even be on your radar screen, even if they did actually purchase it.
This has been true for as long as Windows has owned the desktop.
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Dennis