____/ High Plains Thumper on Thursday 15 November 2007 11:01 : \____
> bmillerjacobson wrote:
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Microsoft expands Office 'pay-as-you-go' rental program
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> Via the pay-as-you-go program, users can choose three- or
>>>> six-month subscriptions to Office Professional 2007 and
>>>> pay a monthly fee to use the product.
>>>> `----
>>
>> Just when I thought their software couldn't get any more
>> expensive, they come up with this. From their point of view,
>> this might scream huge profits, but I bet users will just get
>> fed up eventually and go open source, for the most part.
>
> Actually what I find appalling is the essence of greed, rather
> than value added, cost effective, feature rich, most wanted
> customer items, etc. focus.
>
> Why 'pay-as-you-go' when the Sun professionally developed
> StarOffice and free OpenOffice are feature rich products, well
> suited for most office automation applications.
Great analogy and a great sign of things to come (with Oh-Oh-XML to ensure you
can't escape with your crucial data):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ZhPI1eic4
Yes, it's a new commercial.
> I remember writers using Wordstar 3.0 in CP/M-80 write their
> novels, thesis, research papers, etc. They were productive. I
> was productive. The latest StarOffice is definitely more than
> that. For one, I still find WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows 3.1 much
> easier to work with than MS Word. How much more then, OpenOffice.
>
> That one must have a particular brand of proprietary, monopolised
> software to be productive is simply gobshite, pure and simple.
Let's see if the governments allow Microsoft get people 'addicted' (infected
rather.... or locked in).
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.
|
| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
|
| "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
They also give trial versions now and do contracts with OEMs... everything to
get people imprisoned by the proprietary format that is Oh Oh XML!! Oh oh!
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~~ Best of wishes
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