Microsoft Moving to New Software Model with Windows 10, Official Spokesperson Reveals
It’s clear that with Windows 10, Microsoft is moving towards a very different software model henceforth. Without a doubt, and as an official Microsoft spokesperson put it: the company would release updates gradually instead of these scheduled launches.
Of course, one can only attribute this to the easy availability of the internet for your personal computer. This seemingly big change with Microsoft has been a growing trend as a number of other companies (one being Adobe) release continuous updates for their operating systems, apps and firmware.
Speaking of which, Adobe takes advantage of this new style of software distribution by taking monthly subscription fees for access to desktop products such as Illustrator and Photoshop, which is a part of its Creative Cloud model. Apart from this, Adobe has also added a range of supporting services and which includes Creative Cloud syncing cloud storage.
Much like Adobe, Microsoft under Nadella, is clearly towards becoming a services company and with adding Windows into a bundle of services that it offers will only increase the value of the entire move as a whole. Of course, this decision to offer gradual updates will also help them go easy on engineering resource allocation while also keeping up with the rapid adoption curves of new technology these days.
What will be interesting to note is how the sales model shifts as a result of this change given that Microsoft has already announced that Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for devices for the first year after Windows 10’s official launch.
Who knows? It might become an integral part of the services bundle that will expand on what Office 365 currently provides.