Microsoft to launch new Vista-subscription trials in early 2008
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| Microsoft is readying a new Windows-Vista based version of its
| FlexGo hardware-software-services bundle aimed at emerging markets.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=445
They have been getting miserable. Would they expect people to buy a 'content
delivery system' with required subscriptions? They do scratch cards in some
countries. People will run to Linux without hesitation, but Microsoft still
craves that subscription-based model that can help it survive. It'll never
pull it off.
Related:
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
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