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Microsoft: breaking with licensing tradition | |
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| Time: 08:03 EST/13:03 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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These are critical times for Microsoft Corp. The company deliberately broke its software licensing model with Thursday's introduction of the unpopular Licensing 6.0, Gavin Clarke writes. Until now customers paid Microsoft's licensing charges, shelling-out hard-won IT budget while complaining of expense and confused details. For Microsoft, this was a reliable - if imperfect - revenue model. After all, what alternatives were there to Microsoft's products? As Microsoft ushered in Licensing 6.0, though, alternatives were - for the first time - emerging. Unfortunately for Microsoft, those alternatives compete in the company's lucrative desktop homeland. | ||
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| #1 By 61 (65.32.170.1) at 8/2/2002 12:03:42 PM |
| Oh, ok, then Microsoft isn't a monopoly after all. |
| #2 By 8589 (65.100.120.51) at 8/3/2002 10:16:05 AM |
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These are critical times for every hi-tech industry. Bad accounting practices are finally coming to light that make the downturn of 911 seem negligible by comparison. 911 caused stock brokers to panic, but there really was no basis for it. War, as bad as it is, has a history of bolstering the US economy. Remember World War 2? Also, in 1967, the dollar was worth a dollar. Again, war helped this. (Vietnam)
But Multi-Billion dollar thievery from large corporations... That is scary. |
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