Windows 10 free: Why is Microsoft giving away its new operating system?

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It will be free for current Windows 7 and 8 users for one year. Everyone else will have to buy it, it seems, and Windows 7 and 8 users may have to pay something in the future. Hardly free.

Windows 10 free: Why is Microsoft giving away its new operating system? And who’s losing out?

Microsoft launched its new version of Windows last night, making clear at the launch event that it would offer for free. The move marks a departure for the company, which has in the past counted on Windows for much of its revenues — but that cash has already begun to come from other places.

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