[SWLUG] Interesting news

[Julian Hall]

IIRC all future MS OSs will have a time limited license and will cease
to function after (I believe) 3 years.  It's more likely to be set to
time out when MS release a new operating system, possibly as Rhys says
as often as yearly.  It's blatantly because MS know 90% of the "sales"
of XP have been on pre-installed PCs where people had no choice.  Actual
sales of the OS on its' own have bene lousy with people sticking to
Win98 or ME, or as in my case Win2K.

Another example of Bill not being happy with his fortune and scraping
every cent he can out of the industry.  Well he can sod off.  I'm
sticking to Win2K (and that's only until my TV Card works in MDK :))

Kind regards,

Julian


On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 23:40, Rhys Sage wrote:
> It may or may not be news to people here but I just
> read that Munich city council has abandoned Windows in
> favour of Linux and some local authorities here seem
> to be doing the same.
> 
> In the article I read (I'm not sure where I read it
> now although I did come across something similar in
> this week's Private Eye), they were saying something
> to the effect that Microsoft were introducing or were
> using an annual renewable license for using Windows
> and that the bodies concerned weren't impressed.
> Mention was made that they were going over to star
> office.
> 
> Is there any truth to the reports?
> 
> Rhys
> 
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