Even though I have read reports that Microsoft is giving away Windows 10 and then will "count on app sales to drive revenue," I think also there is a humanitarian reasoning behind this.
We are living in a time where computers, computing devices and related software are so wide spread almost everywhere you go and corporations such as Microsoft don't really need give away upgrades and new versions of their operating systems so I think the effort to do good towards mankind is a part of it.
I haven't heard of Apple doing this for any of their services or products and they have more than $700 billion dollars. They could easily give away Apple watches to whoever wanted one and still have tons of billions of dollars.
A person from Apple who is giving a lot of his money away is Tim Cook, who has said he will pay for his nephew's education and then donate the rest of his money to charities, according Fortune Magazine.
And think of Steve Jobs only having a $1 salary. That is someone who does not care about money and only cares about being productive and helping others (although of course he did have billions of dollars.)
Other people have said they would do the same or similar. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet started a campaign in order to pursuade other billionaires to give at least half of their money to charities, and so far people like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have signed on.
When I hear about this I know a lot of these people don't need that money. Of course they need some of it, but they obviously care about others.
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