Most of you know that when Apple comes out with a new update to its operating system, users can update their Apple computers cheaply — whereas (until Windows 8) Windows users paid $100+ to upgrade their operating system every few years. Apparently Microsoft is seeing benefits to Apple’s approach and are working on a platform called Windows Blue, which will be available at a low cost (similar to Windows 8 intro price of $39.99) or free.<\/p>\n
Moreover, yearly updates to the Windows platform may be the norm soon, or so The Verge reports<\/a><\/span>. We think it’s about time. Consumers will get a better price on new Windows versions thus I assume more consumers will be upgrading Windows rather than sitting on old versions which, over time, tend to become more vulnerable, more prone to attack and therefore less safe.<\/p>\n Also, rumors abound that Windows Blue will bring back the traditional Windows start button – the lack of which has many Windows 8 users fuming – or at least wistful. Right now there are a few good apps that can bring back the start button on Windows 8 — some free and some not.<\/p>\n What do you think about the Windows Blue idea? Do you think it’s about time that Windows users get upgraded operating systems more often and for a much more reasonable price?<\/p>\n When you think about it? What if Microsoft were to charge $30 or $40 for each yearly upgrade for Windows Blue? Microsoft make as much money on Windows as they do now — since a new Windows OS comes out only about every three to four years. By my math, 3 x $40 = $120 and 4 x $40 = $160. If customers currently buy a new Windows version every 3 or 4 years for $100 — then Microsoft is going to make even more money with Windows Blue. But I can only assume that users will not be forced to update to a newer version of Windows “Blue” each time a newer version is offered. So a yearly update may well turn out to be, for most consumers, an update they’ll install only ever couple of years. Additionally, I assume, that like all previous versions of Windows, Microsoft will provide support for a particular release of Windows Blue for a reasonable amount of time.<\/p>\n Right now it’s all speculation, but it’s something to think about. Apple has been successful with a similar approach.<\/p>\n So what do you think? Are new versions of an operating system every year a bit too much? Time will tell.<\/p>\n Tell us what you think about the Windows Blue idea? Should Microsoft take this decidedly Apple tack?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most of you know that when Apple comes out with a new update to its operating system, users can update their Apple computers cheaply — whereas (until Windows 8) Windows users paid $100+ to upgrade their operating system every few years. Apparently Microsoft is seeing benefits to Apple’s approach and are working on a platform called Windows Blue,\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5160,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/5160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}