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Originally posted by punkworld
While pay-as-you-go is most definitely a possibility, I don't think it will come that far for most basic things. It would scare away too many users who are willing to fork out the cash for the OS.
What I do consider very likely is "rent programs", programs which you rent instead of buy. For instance, PhotoShop would cost like $70 a month instead of a lump sum. The upside, ofcourse, is that upgrades and such would probably be included in that.
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renting or "leasing" is definately a great idea. However your always paying for it. If they made the fee low enough to make it feasible I'd be all for it. The pay as you go scenerio is an MS ploy and it is as real as I am hairy. I got a friend who works for a HUGE web development organization and they have been instructed to implement this shit by a certain date, He didn't tell me what date because he could lose his job but he did tell me what he could say. and it's not good
You buy the OS at around half of today's price, but continue to pay for each component you use in it. Such as WMP, IE, Outlook, Notepad, Calc, etc etc. 3rd party applications won't be affected with this scenerio as of their plans yet.