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Originally Posted by acropolite
software developers could do with a bloat removal program.
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One of the prime objectives of Snow Leopard when it is released in the wild later this year - OSX and its apps are going on a diet. A useful speed increment should be a side benefit.
Back on topic - the business model behind this Microsoft concept is simply the software lease or pay as you use model, and its just an attempt to stop people using their s/w for free.
Both these business models have been shown to be a flop in the past both at the level of major corporate customers and personal home users; the former will not accept the business being stopped dead by net access being denied, while the users of grey (illegal) copies will switch to something else - XP, Linux - or OSX rather than pay up.
And do you really fancy handing over your credit card details for MS to charge every time you launch MS Explorer, Outlook, or Word ?
Do you really trust MS with your credit or bank details, knowing they are the one developer incapable of writing a secure browser or mail client ?
Would you accept being denied access to your files because you didn't pay last months bill ?
What happens if you want to stop and switch to something else - I'll bet your data is encrupted in some very difficult if not incompatoble format unsupported by anything else, in order to lock you in to this system.
Only a fool would sign up to this.