After decades of evangelizing the concept of software as a product, Microsoft launched its most ambitious project to date: transforming its flagship Windows (and Windows 10 ), as a service . For example, Microsoft can improve messaging functionality by deploying a messaging application update by the Windows Store.
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Deliver Windows as a service will result in some accounting gymnastics from Microsoft. If traditionally the turnover was closely related to the sale of licenses, now it will be spread in small amount, over two to four years.
Last Friday, the company released a PowerPoint presentation that prepares the financial sector, ie analysts and investors, to this change. A precise slideshow "we have a new financial model, because Windows 10 provides software upgrades provided with time rather than price specifically reserved for software updates of events. This will result in the deferral of revenues ".
In the footsteps of Office 365
Microsoft was quick to stress that there is no change in the activity of software licenses. The record quarterly earnings will be posted on the "Corporate and Other" in the Microsoft tax returns, once people start paying for Windows 10. Microsoft will also be affected. Here is a slide showing the changes:
What does not change, and as Microsoft has stated, the "model of software licenses and the associated method with the introduction of Windows 10." The other thing that does not change is that Microsoft still plans to provide free update to Windows 10 for people running genuine versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
Windows 10, to be launched at the end of the month, will probably be the beginning of a new approach to the marketing of its operating system.
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Deliver Windows as a service will result in some accounting gymnastics from Microsoft. If traditionally the turnover was closely related to the sale of licenses, now it will be spread in small amount, over two to four years.
In the footsteps of Office 365
Microsoft was quick to stress that there is no change in the activity of software licenses. The record quarterly earnings will be posted on the "Corporate and Other" in the Microsoft tax returns, once people start paying for Windows 10. Microsoft will also be affected. Here is a slide showing the changes:
What does not change, and as Microsoft has stated, the "model of software licenses and the associated method with the introduction of Windows 10." The other thing that does not change is that Microsoft still plans to provide free update to Windows 10 for people running genuine versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
Windows 10, to be launched at the end of the month, will probably be the beginning of a new approach to the marketing of its operating system.