Forced software upgrades can add up for Vista users
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| Besides shelling out for faster hardware, users should expect to pay
| for Vista upgrades for many of their favorite Windows software.
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| Large corporations, which generally pay for high-priced maintenance
| contracts such as Microsoft's Software Assurance that guarantee them
| the latest upgrades, may yawn. Nor will essentially charging
| customers for Vista support generate equal amounts of resentment.
| For many antivirus and antispyware applications, consumers and
| small businesses are already conditioned to pay annual subscription
| fees to get the latest updates and malware definitions.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=desktop_applications&articleId=9012140&taxonomyId=86&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/3cgf8z
No mention of the cost of DRM (buying stuff over and over and over again,
because information 'expires' and cannot be shared).
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