Kurt your company should have some sort of license agreement with M$ at that count of machines. In our situation we are allowed to switch to the LATEST version at any time on anything because our maintenance agreement(s) all point to paying today for the most current version. Same with our servers. Now server licenses could change for SQL or Exchange that are all based on CPU count and ram but you are talking desktops.
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Kurt Wendt Kurt_Wendt@globetax.com wrote:
Hey Mike - thanks for the input. Yes, for your client w/250+ users - at a per license cost - that will be A LOT for them to handle. So, I can understand their desire to do the free upgrade. But, as the old adage goes
- you get what you pay for. Thanks for that Date of final free upgrade. Now
at least I know I have a little time to make up my mind.
Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst
Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Mike Copeland Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 9:03 PM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Win10 Free Upgrade Expiration???
No direct experience, just have helped a few clients downgrade to 7 after they were hijacked to 10. I didn't care for 10, I don't see the benefit of 10 (to the user, I see a lot of benefit to MSoft) and at this point I'm willing to pay $130 for a copy of Win 10 'someday' if I ever decide it's the thing to do.
My understanding is that July 31, 2016 is the last day to upgrade for free.
I have a large client, over 250 machines, who wants to upgrade simply due to the economics of not having to purchase 250+ licenses in the future. They reason that "our users are young, they'll adapt." Probably true.
Hope this helps.
Mike Copeland
Kurt@VRFX wrote:
So - I'm here on my laptop - and, as usual lately - as I boot up - I get the Dumb Ass Win10 Nag pop-up!
As such - it Begs the question. When does it expire? At which point I have to Pay - which I would rather not.
Although - am also curious as to how Good Win10 is. I know there has been a Lot of Shit talk about Win10. But, since Evil M$ decided to use the Whole World as Beta testers. I suspect that by now most of the Bugs have been worked out.
So - what say you all? Go for it and Upgrade - or should I say F That and just stick with what I have (Win 8.1 on my laptop & Win7 Pro on my Desktop)! Hell - I stuck with WinXP for years on my old Desktop - and things Win2000 Pro for Quite some time - before finally upgrading. As such - I have no problem holding off on this Win10 stuff if its Not dependable.
L8r, -K-
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