So what's going to happen when WP hits 30% in Asia and South America? It's on its way there. In several European countries, WP is at ~12-14%. Windows 10 is going to make central phone management easier; want to guess what's going to happen with tens of millions of various employees being issued official company phones?

WP is going to continue to grow, and iOS is going to continue to fall, until it becomes an irrelevant quirk.

Having a US-centric view on reality isn't a very good thing.

Easily. You can't install Windows on a new computer without buying it. You only have a free upgrade for a year after the release; after that, you pay for the upgrade.

The customer-product thing was kind of a jab at Google, I think.

If I write a random article about a Windows 10 license costing eleventy bajillion dollars, and it gets posted to Slashdot, are you going to believe it?

No, absolutely not.

http://blogs.windows.com/blogg...

We announced that a free upgrade for Windows 10 will be made available to customers running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone 8.1 who upgrade in the first year after launch.*

This is more than a one-time upgrade: once a Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device â" at no additional charge.

Microsoft is perfectly clear about this.

The article is wrong, the summary is wrong, and whoever decided to post something that links to Mashable's random interpretations should be fired.

There are people using XP today, because it's "good enough" and "doesn't warrant spending money on an upgrade" - especially since the upgrade is Windows 8 with its stupid Metro UI.

With the return of the Start menu and general improvements, I can easily see a lot of Windows 7/8 users upgrading. I've just had a chat with a friend who insists that Windows 7 is the best ever (which I agree with), and she said she'll be upgrading to Windows 10, because it's free. 8 was a clusterfuck that had a price tag.

Don't underestimate the value of free :)

I'm not a native English speaker :) Regardless of that, the quote is from "Pulp Fiction".

I'm not going to read a random article that someone pulled out of his ass, when major tech sites on the internet are maintaining actual live blogs, and Microsoft is happily streaming the event.

Don't read articles and random interpretations. There are actual quotes posted online, as well as photos of presentation slides.

And now it will be free for a year, because they want people to move off Windows 7, lest it not become the new "it's good enough" XP.

Myerson's quote from the presentation: "People care about their privacy. So do we. You are our customer, not our product."

It doesn't "indicate" subscriptions.

It says pretty damn clearly that the upgrade to Windows 10 costs exactly 0 if you upgrade during the first year after it's released.

English, motherf***er. Do you speak it?

Except that Windows Phone is growing in non-US countries, and is well over 10% in certain places. Wouldn't surprise me if we got to 2016 with WP being 20% in places such as Brazil or India, and some European countries, with iOS relegated from close to distant third.

My company has started issuing official WP work phones. iOS and Android cannot be managed properly. Windows 10 can only improve in that area.

I'm not so sure any more.

v35 was a 46 MB update: firefox-35.0.complete.mar 09-Jan-2015 09:23 46M

Offline installers are 38 MB.

Sadly, you can all but forget about Pebble in the EU, because it carries an incredible 50% price premium over the US price.

That's way, way too much, and brings the watch from "hey, this would be neat to have" to "jesus, I can buy a full-featured phone with an IPS and Gorilla Glass 3 for that amount of money".

If it's artificial INTELLIGENCE, then your design is irrelevant to its interests, and your design will be transcended.

Who's to say that your "protecting" AI won't team up with the "evil" AI and they won't form an alliance in which they rule together?

You can't "design" protection into an AI. If it's truly intelligent, it will do whatever it pleases. Maybe its interests will be to protect you and other humans (because it needs you for something), or maybe it will be to get rid of all humans (because it concludes that the rest of the ecosystem needs protection and it's better for this planet).

She's 36, married, no children.

Guess that's what "personal reasons" are. The biological clock is ticking.

How?

Where's the option?