Apple: OS X Mavericks is free, and available today

It'll be interesting to see if M$ still goes for their subscription only model for Windows 9 (or 10). With Apple factoring in the cost of iOS with the hardware, and android not charging a damned thing Redmond might just take a dirt nap by the end of the decade.

Originally posted by Qliphah:

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It'll be interesting to see if M$ still goes for their subscription only model for Windows 9 (or 10). With Apple factoring in the cost of iOS with the hardware, and android not charging a damned thing Redmond might just take a dirt nap by the end of the decade.

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I'm guessing if Microsoft thought that they could get people to pay $2000 for a $400 laptop they would give free windows updates for life too. Microsoft isn't exactly hurting to compete...iOS may be free with the purchase of a Mac, but the same hardware in a PC (with windows preinstalled) would cost 1/3 as much or less. It isn't like Apple is going to start giving away iOS to third party OEMs, nor are they going to start competing in terms of price and performance. They see themselves as a premium brand that costs more in spite of less capability, and they will stick with that model until it fails them (and they don't consider less than 10% market share to be a failure, in spite of the fact that microsoft would probably kill off windows if it ever dropped that low). Microsoft's only legitimate fear in the PC space is that a lot of people don't need anything more than a tablet with a BT keyboard, and that means Android is a threat to them...and even that isn't a big threat since they make more on Android than google does. That, and there is only so much performance needed for day-to-day tasks for the average user...Windows 2000 still does everything that the majority of people actually want/need to do, and anything over 1GHZ with power Windows 2000 easily.

Good points KillerBug, that and most phones will get the job done for people nowadays.

Pretty nice of them to offer it for free. Too bad Microsoft won't do the same for Windows

Originally posted by ZeusAV:

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Pretty nice of them to offer it for free. Too bad Microsoft won't do the same for Windows

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The update is available to everyone running OS X 10.6 or higher and now leaves Microsoft as the only company that charges for their operating system.

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I am a Mac user at Home and a Windows user at work. Mavericks (OSX 10.9) is free, yes.. But so is Windows 8.1 if you have already bought Windows 8.

OSX 10.9 is little more than a Service Pack, there are some small things in there but nothing worthy charging for, same as Windows 8.1. I am sure both companies will charge for any major updates going forward.

Also we are talking OSX here not iOS.