Remember the days when you would head out to the store to pick up the latest version of Windows, on DVD, for something like $130? Or if you were unlucky enough to not qualify for upgrade pricing, maybe even $239? Those days might seem in the distant past, but in reality Microsoft is still charging for upgrades between major versions even as of Windows 8.1. But this isn’t going to be the future of Microsoft; the days of charging for upgrades are over and the company is being slowly_backed into a corner by the_trend_of free upgrades on mobile and Apple...
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