Oh geez. I sincerely hope you're right. But there's a whole lot of techno-peasants out there who won't understand how this could be bad. <br><br>My folks run a winders machine and don't really understand why I won't even touch it when I visit.( I own no windows boxes and have only a cursory knowledge of the OS) Of course, this makes my brother the default family IT guy. Thanksgiving, he was running that weird rewrite-the-whole-disk thing that windows seems to require periodically when a hardware fault trashed the disk. I spent a lot of time explaining that just because that's what was running, that didn't mean the crash was his fault. Oog. I try to remember what a cloistered world we live in.<br>
<br><br>-- CHS<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Andrew Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dutch.fedora@gmail.com">dutch.fedora@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Read this article "Microsoft specs out 'pay as you go' PC scheme" on M$<br>
moving towards a usage model for their OS. They say that it is really an<br>
excellent idea in that users will only have to pay for what they use....<br>
hmm. The consumer will pay less up front for their systems, but<br>
admittedly more over the life of the computer.This tracking would<br>
include memory usage, cores and disk space as monitored by a security<br>
chip installed or software based metering application. Just what I think<br>
Americans will really go for, M$ having full view of the hardware and<br>
the software we have. I have to say that in the life of M$ this must be<br>
the dumbest move I have seen. You can see the true marketing genius<br>
floating around the halls of Redmond. I have a feeling Apple and Linux<br>
are going to have a field day in the desktop market coming up here very<br>
soon. It almost feels like M$ is standing on the edge of a bridge saying<br>
the view is much better from here...<br>
<br>
AB<br>
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