Microsoft to add the Genuine Advantage ‘nag’ to Office
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| Microsoft is set to begin a pilot of a new Genuine Advantage anti-piracy
| mechanism for Office that will add a “nag-like” feature, akin to what is now
| part of Windows Vista, to Office.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1322
This is suicide. They must really need more people to actually /pay/ for that
stuff (very few do, except for in the West).
Recent:
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
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| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
Microsoft's DreamSpark – What a Giveaway
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| The rest of the $44.6bn (£22.3bn) deal would be financed with an undisclosed
| amount of credit.
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| What that means is that it must squeeze as much money as it can from its
| operations to fund that debt and still pay dividends to shareholders, who
| will be looking for some payback from the Yahoo takeover. Giving away
| software is the last thing it would want to do in these circumstances, and
| the DreamSpark announcement shows just how worried it is about the future.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveaway
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