RED HERRING | Redmond Has Pay PC for Poor
Software on tap... sort of. MS is essentially treating a PC as a cache for software, with payment for time used. I think this is prettty bogus. What if you spent all your time with Word recovering from a malware exploit? I don't think I would count that as productive work! Why then should I pay? What about hidden OS tasks that run even if I am not aware of them? If the clock ticks as long as the PC is on, then there is an incentive to keep turning the machine off (or diddling with clocks). This seems counter-productive!If MS really wants to bridge the divide, it needs to drastically slim down its bloated Office suite (and its bloated OS) and sell this for a whole lot less. Of course, what they are worried about is that its not just third world users who want a tight, slim, Office: this will likely eat into first world sales as well!
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