[dba-Tech] What if Microsoft...

I know I don't generally buy a new version of software until it has been 
around for about 18 months. Let someone else pay for the privilege of 
being the beta-testing lab.  I'll wait until the sucker is stable!
T

Tina Norris Fields
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On 3/11/2013 1:46 PM, Hans-Christian Andersen wrote:
> For the same reasons users upgraded from vista and xp to windows 7 perhaps? Or Microsoft could do as apple does, which is yearly releases (for much cheaper), rather than big releases even 3+ years. In fact, I think I read somewhere that this is, in fact, what Microsoft wants to do now.
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> Also, another point to make is that most users don't actually care to upgrade their version of windows when a new one comes out (probably because upgrades are too expensive or they aren't that technical of a user). They tend to just buy a new machine when they need to and take whatever OS is pre-installed with it. So that's something to take into consideration.
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