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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [Mark Kent] on Sunday 19 February 2006 18:22 \__
>
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>> Technomage Hawke <technomage-hawke@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>
>>> well,
>>> here is a new wrinkle on windows vista: subscription only use.
>>> basically, it goes like this: you register the product and pay for a years
>>> time on it. if, at the end of your subscription period, you fail to
>>> "re-up", any documents you may have made are locked, as is the OS you
>>> created them on.
>>>
>>> In case you think this is just rumor, I have it on credible sources that
>>> this is where Vista is headed by mid 2007.
>>>
>>> I'd hate to be one of the users on that OS when it locks them out and they
>>> have to have a report done for their job the next day.
>>>
>>> At least linux won't pull this kind of game.
>>>
>>
>> I'll wager that this will not happen, but the rumour will be circulated,
>> so that when the very nasty licensing terms are released for Vista, they
>> won't seem quite so bad as this, so people will ignore how much nastier
>> they are than last time.
>
> When one pays by credit card in installations (unlock edition-bound features
> of Vista), the ripoff will be difficult to sense in one's pocket. It's that
> old marketing trick. People buy Windows, then Office, then AV software (or
> OneKer). It never ends and the pertinent expenses are larger to sum up, so
> are rarely discarded or assumed to be nominal.
>
It's more effective to relieve people of their cash in smaller chunks
than in larger ones, as you say, they don't see it so easily. The
'triple-play' which telcos were hoping for so much from has not been the
intended success, as people just get a larger bill, which they're not
necessarily happy about...
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