>>>https://ca.news.yahoo.com/microsoft-says-windows-10-free-upgrade-recent-buyers-173239279--finance.html
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>>>Does that mean we'll become (even more) the product?
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>>Well, it confirms what I have heard before from other Msft employees, namely that the cost of developing a new Windows version after Win10 is too high to justify it, so it simply won't happen. In other words, Win10 will be the last version of Windows ever, only updates will be provided after its release. And since VFP9 will run on Win10 as long as the processor is Intel compatible, VFP9 will continue to work for many, many years still.
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>I'm surprised you persist with this idea that a new OS will be too costly to develop. That has nothing to do with this move. This move is entirely to do with converting from a revenue model based on once-off new product sales to a recurring subscription model. This is not a technical issue at all, regardless that the PR BS people may like you to believe that. This is a money issue and it really is very obvious.

Well if there's a serious list of technical breakthroughs (like they had for the Vista, at least in form of promise and abandoned features list), then perhaps it is serious. Otherwise, I'm inclined to think it's just makeup - cosmetic change in the behavior of the desktop and what have you, with not much changing under the hood. Unless if it's plugging in the last holes in the areas where users could still configure something for themselves (like get rid of the homepage in Skype 7.0 - just change a single character in the config.xml and it claims it's 6.3 and forces you to install 7.0 within 24 hours which then reverts whatever you tried to change).