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**Mike**

On 2/11/2019 3:13 PM, pjp wrote:
In article , lid says...

On 2/11/19 8:00 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

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In a new blog post entitled ?Helping customers shift to a modern
desktop?, Microsoft has announced that it will indeed start charging
Windows 7 customers a monthly fee from January 14th 2020, if they want
to keep their computers safe.

This SHOULD refer to security updates, not permission to use the OS.

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When I became a beta tester for 98 I once stated it was MS's intent to
eventually charge for everytime you use their software. That's what Bill
Gates once said a long time ago, e.g. he was entitled for payment
everytime you used the software and not just the once when purchased.
It's MS's intent to force the industry into this model wether it best
for their customers or not.

Want to use Word for an hour, that'll be $1.00 please, tack on another
dollar for "whatever". etc. etc. they'll nickel and dime us to death.

Sorry but FUC*K THAT.

It's inevitable.
The cellphone model already does that.
Want data? No problem. Fork over $40 a line for
4 lines and get lotsa data, whether you use it or not.
Somebody has to pay for that Superbowl commercial.

Linux has not offered a viable alternative for the desktop.
Android has the phone market.