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微软尚未就Windows10价格进行规定

Windows 10 pricing remains up in the air

Windows10价格未定

Microsoft has bold ambitions for Windows 10: Topower 1 billion devices by 2018. To achieve thatgoal, the company will let most users update to thenew version at no charge for one year after Windows10’s release.

微软公司对Windows10系统信心十足，期望到2018年，有10亿台电脑使用该系统。为了达成这个目标，微软公司决定，在Windows10系统发布后的一年内，用户可以免费将系统更新至最新版本。

After that, however, Microsoft doesn’t know what it will charge customers to upgrade -- orhow it will deliver upgrades in the future.

但微软公司尚不明确一年之后，如何收取更新费用，或者以后如何收取更新系统的费用，

微软尚未就Windows10价格进行规定

Joe Belfiore said Thursday the company’s primary concern is getting the operating systemonto a critical mass of devices as quickly as possible. How will people get their hands onWindows 10 after the first year? "I don’t know, " Belfiore said at a press event.

副总裁乔·贝尔菲里奥本周四表示，现在最重要的是让众多重要的设备都安装该系统。但是，一年之后，人们怎么安装Windows10系统?“我不知道。贝尔菲里奥在发布会上说道。

While Microsoft hasn’t claimed it would never charge customers to upgrade to its latestsoftware, executives have put greater emphasis on casting the software as far as possiblethan on pricing. Users who update to will get "new features and benefits for a long, long time,"said Belfiore. Those add-ons will include application and full OS updates, he added.