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**KWills Shill #3[_2_]**

On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:13:24 -0400, 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 worth noting the charge is only if people want to get
updates, not to use Windows 7. If one wants to take the risk, they can
continue to use 7 without having to pay anything.
If they should ever try charging, for any OS, as you suggest, I
expect a mass migration to iOS or Linux. I know from personal
experience that the Mint distro of Linux has a look and feel like
Windows, so there won't be much of a learning curve.

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