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1. Comment - Microsoft embraces subscription model in Office + Windows Live bundle

   (Jul 2, 2008 - 2:36 PM)

   From the very beginning we all knew this was coming... Microsoft's foothold on the software market to charge whatever for whatever. $70 a year is not cheap considering all of the other nickle and dimeing that goes on in association with personal computers. Not that Sun was above this or not the reason the original Microsoft came to exist in the first place.
   
   Fortunately, the founders of Linux saw this coming. Then Google got involved. The problem remains, however, that computer related monopolies are easily created and that monopolies are infamous for arm twisting.
   
   Ask any customer of IBM. There is no solution except to do the same to your own sources of income so as not to be left behind. One day perhaps like electricity and water supply a government rate regulating entity will have to become involved.