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 <[email protected]> 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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike > Copeland > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 9:03 PM > To: [email protected] > 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- > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajidmy+guhazdi2z2+jnf39i9uup9mxpdoaocnorqmhz+ox...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
