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Forget TE... I can top that! :)

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  • 20-11-1998 4:40pm
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    Hobbes
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    Firm mulls annual fees for users

    By Reuters, 11/20/98

    WASHINGTON - An internal Microsoft Corp. memo released at its antitrust trial yesterday showed the software giant is considering charging personal computer users an annual fee to use its Windows operating system starting in 2001.

    Joachim Kempin, Microsoft's senior vice president for sales to personal computer makers, suggested an ''annuity'' paid by personal computer owners and called it ''the best thing long term.''

    Purchasers of new computers now pay a single fee for Windows, which is bundled into the cost of the overall computer.

    Kempin made his suggestion for the change in a December 1997 memo that was sent to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.

    But he wrote that charging the annual fee is not an option until 2001, when a new version of Windows is expected.

    Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray, asked about the memo, said, ''This is not a licensing option that is near reality. It is simply an idea that is thrown out there to look into.''

    This story ran on page D04 of the Boston Globe on 11/20/98.
    © Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company.


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    Venom
    Registered Users Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    Unless microsoft are going to start giving windows away for free they can go f*ck themselves.


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    Dupre
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Dupre


    Ahhhh ... yet another reason to use Linux :)





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    LegacyUser
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    Whadda you spoutin on about, full-HD boy. :P

    Teeth.


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    Dupre
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Dupre


    You're a fine one to talk, Speaker-Boy !!
    (no - we haven't all forgotten that one yet :) Ah hahahahaa ...


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