Windows will be free on phones, small tablets and the Internet of Things

[froggyboy604]

Microsoft has announced that Windows will be free for hardware makers to use on phones, tablets with screens under nine inches and Internet of Things devices.

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I think Windows should be free for Netbooks, cheaper desktop, slower computers, and bigger tablets as well.

I wonder would some PC companies take advantage of the term "Internet of Things" to install Windows for free because a desktop computer, laptop, and smartphone can be consider an "internet of things" because they are things which can connect to the internet.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I'm surprised they are willing to do this since their OS on the PCs are so pricey. 

 

[froggyboy604]

Maybe MS plan on selling Apps and in-App purchases to free Windows uses where they can earn a lot of money from in-app purchases like how people spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on Candy Crush Saga virtual money.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Another thing to say it's to fight free OS.

 

[froggyboy604]

Yes, it is to fight free OS, and to convince PC game and software makers to keep making games for Windows instead of Linux, Steam OS, Android, and UNIX which are free, and could take a lot of users from Windows because they are free, and Windows would have fewer users because of poor and cheap people using free OS instead of Windows.