MS seems more than willing to encourage its corporate customers to
investigate alternative sources of software. From the article below, MS
is considering replacing its perpetual licenses with a fixed-time license.
Now just how much more encouragement will an IT executive need? He can
pay MS now AND pay MS later. This is obviously a response by MS to either
force its customers into its upgrade scheme to insure corporate profits
(MS's, of course). Even if you find no compelling reason to upgrade to
MS's latest and greatest, you may still be forced to pay them to continue
to use your current not-so-latest-and-greatest incarnation of their
software.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5851009.html?tag=tp_pr
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Jim
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