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Re: Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust

____/ Mark Kent on Monday 31 December 2007 15:58 : \____

> From Microsoft's perspective, though, they could charge a licence-fee
> payment for every suggested response, every stored email, every
> electronic exchange and so on.  In the end, they could have thousands of
> machines emailing each other constantly, with no input from people, and
> charging the owners millions for the privilege.

They already do this with documents. Future versions of Office are likely to be
given for free and the charged for as you go, per document. They already
experiment with that business model in some countries. IBM uses that vision to
get people scared of Office and choose Symphony.

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