You better believe it because the way I see this going is that will be paying 50 bucks (maybe more) for each major update for windows 10.

Want SP1? $50 please! Oh and don't forget, major Windows 10 functionality and security will be limited or not working at all without it :-)

Seriously though I hope they don't plan something like this...

it's like Apple saying there will be no iPhone 7 this year. both are LIES!

Highly unlikely since it was confirmed it was free months ago.

Saas-Software as a service.

If you are talking about the operating system, that's false. What SaaS are you talking about? what other services are you thinking of would be probable to implement into a free OS?

The reason I see that ther wont be another windows is that its not as profitable as before. Computer sales are going down and thats where the majority of income come in. Therefore, they make it free, allowing pc buyers and others to switch over without a paywall. With that many users, they can promote the app store or other services already out like office 365 or that rumored windows 365 which would most likely be some sort of remote application like teamviewer.

So what SaaS BS are you talking about?

Yes they have the majority of consumers but not on the exact same OS. Still there are more than half of desktop users on windows 7. I brought up office/windows 365 for the people switching TO windows. Now, the point I was making was that they needed those users so that they can promote software that works better with that OS. Windows 8 and 10 allow apps from the store. 7 does not. If they want a good profit from the store, they need to get those windows 7 users over to 10.

Now about that software removal, can you be more specific? Features removed and sold back are most likely able to be replaced by third party software. They aren't the best in developing applications, believe it or not. Therefore, if a software isn't used a lot by the users and it would cost money/time to work on updating the program, its common sense to just scrap it or use someone's else;s software to replace it. A feature being old/bad means that in comparison to other software, its not as good/up-to-date, so already people are going to download that to replace it(example: internet explorer, wmp, defender).Unless what your'e talking about is something big and no other third party software compares. What kind of feature would that be? Elaborate or give some sources on how doing something like that would be reasonable action that they would take knowing that doing a dlc kind of operating system is going to hurt them in the long run due to the fact that users would know not to update if an important feature wont be there or be influenced not to update if other users flame hate on it(windows 8).

You wont require Live gold to get the update on the xbox one as silver gets the updates too it will just need to be connected to the internet.

What people are forgetting about Windows is most of the money comes from new pc's not upgrades so they are looking to make the money from there. Plus Microsoft are moving onto becoming a cloud 1st company so services like 365 and azure. Plus other services like Skype, SharePoint, Xbox Music as well as Xbox live ect.