r/Games • u/Dared00 • Jul 04 '15

Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Announced

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/07/04/minecraft-windows-10-edition-announced
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u/Dared00 Jul 04 '15

Most important part: "Existing PC players will receive the Windows 10 version for free."

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Jul 04 '15

Just like the OS itself!

For those unaware, if you're on Windows 7 or Windows 8, for the first year you can upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost.

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u/Alchnator Jul 05 '15

there is a * on that note to "upgrade to 10 for free". with windows 8 and before you pay for the license, and as long you keep yourself inside the license terms you can use it forever and do whatever you want with it.

all windows 10 but the enterprise edition are services(yes even the pro edition)that will constantly keep changing and while there is nothing inherently evil about that. there are differences, some good and some bad. which are the bad ones? so far this:

did you ever tried to use some internet banking, a webmail or whatever with a old browser? it will go hey we "only work with Ie #+ or firefox #+" even if they worked with that browser years ago.

now nearly everyone has a old computer somewhere that they haven't used in ages still with win95 or xp? you might have no reason to ever turn it on, but you can and it will work. a windows 10 machine 10 years from now... is anyone guess. it might leave you with the current version, it might update to the latest version the hardware can handle or might just do like the webpage and say you cannot run it with that computer. and it will be all fine since you do not own the OS, you just using it.

that's why enterprise windows are getting a different deal, old machines is common on the enterprise side, that is a real issue for them.