While the upcoming release of Microsoft® Windows 10 (scheduled for July 29^th, 2015) comes with many new and exciting features, one of the most significant changes is in how the software is being sold.

Historically Microsoft has offered their flagship operating system in a perpetual software license model – where software is sold in a one-time purchase. Windows 10 is uprooting that approach as it shifts to a subscription license model, whereby the software is licensed and paid for on a recurring basis.

Venture Beat recently discussed several implications of the change in a recent article, “Windows 10 Will Get Automatic Updates for 10 Years,” including how product updates are impacted by the new model:

SOURCE: flexerasoftware.com