Okay, so 2-4 years. Still, it was obvious from the beginning that MS wasn't gonna really, actually do "free." How many email addresses did they harvest with that lie though...
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I'd definitely go with "intentionally misleading" in this case. They've been telling everybody forever than it's going to be totally free, supported forever, and on and on, but realistically there's no way a company traded in public is going to go backwards to a venture capital "we don't make profit yet" model. I've believed from the onset that MS was being intentionally misleading, but I expected they'd wait until a few hundred million people were stuck before asking for credit card information.
[–] librium ago
Thanks for the clarification. Microsoft either has really terrible editors for their statements or is being intentionally misleading and ambiguous.
[–] JesTheRed ago
I'd definitely go with "intentionally misleading" in this case. They've been telling everybody forever than it's going to be totally free, supported forever, and on and on, but realistically there's no way a company traded in public is going to go backwards to a venture capital "we don't make profit yet" model. I've believed from the onset that MS was being intentionally misleading, but I expected they'd wait until a few hundred million people were stuck before asking for credit card information.