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It’s a free, automatic upgrade for Windows 7 and 8, yes, but the type of people who actually are stuck using Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 and such are either tech illiterate, or working for companies who have no interest in spending the time and money to upgrade, despite being under siege by malware and decaying programs. With that said, the final piece of the puzzle is why Windows 10 isn’t just flat-out free. This mythical group of tech-savvy pirates still running Windows XP, waiting to jump on an opportunity like this, would seem to either be incredibly tiny or not exist at all.

MICROSOFT PHOTO STORY 3 FOR WINDOWS XP FREE DOWNLOAD HOW TO

And if instead you’re a pirate who installed an illegal copy of Windows 7 or 8, chances are you’d figure out how to do the same for Windows 10 if it wasn’t free. If you’re still running Windows XP, chances are you are not the type of person who knows how to properly pirate an entire operating system. But it’s unclear how that logic holds up after closer inspection. The counter-argument to all this of course is that Microsoft is encouraging piracy by offering amnesty with Windows 10. Sometimes pirates aren’t pirates at all, but simple sailors who got on the wrong boat and are confused when they look up and see a Jolly Roger. Past China, where piracy is the norm, Windows users worldwide sometimes find themselves with pirated copies of the operating system purely by accident, given how widely circulated they are, and that can make buying or upgrading legal software difficult. Rather than spending a fortune trying to develop anti-piracy measures that pirates will inevitably crack within a week of release, Microsoft is giving everyone a clean slate, and making it much easier to become a legitimate customer of their other products if they so choose. In one clean sweep, Microsoft can convert millions of pirates into legitimate users. The move is also seen as an olive branch to China, where as much as three quarters of all PC software, including Windows, is pirated.

The idea here is that with a legitimate copy of Windows in hand, even pirates may be more likely to shell out for Microsoft’s other products like Skype and Office 365.

It’s dropped from 23 percent of revenue to 16 percent, year over year, between Windows and Office licenses. Even though Microsoft has long struggled with piracy issues, licensing is becoming an increasingly less important part of their revenue model.