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Microsoft Introduces Pay-as-You-Go Computing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the crash-as-you-go dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Geekzone is reporting that Microsoft is introducing a new business model for 'pay-as-you-go computing.' From the article: 'The pay-as-you-go computing model enabled by Microsoft's FlexGo technology allows customers to have a fully featured PC at home by paying only for the time as they use it through the purchase of prepaid activation cards or tokens. Microsoft has been running trials of the program in Brazil for more than a year and will soon be expanding to select markets in India, Russia, China and Mexico.'" This makes me giggle, because it's basically the return of time-sharing; in the past it was for for mainframe systems, but I suppose the same concept behind the mainframe idea would be true in developing countries today with PC systems.

3 of 328 comments (clear)

  1. Cool by aadvancedGIR · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not only they will pirate windows, but they will pirate the HW too.

  2. Obligatory joke by RasendeRutje · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sorry, I'll have to make it:
    "allows customers to have a fully featured PC at home"
    So Microsoft is going to use Ubuntu for this?

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    If Microsoft was mass, stupidity would be gravity.
  3. Re:First Post by Man-Afraid-of-His-Ho · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    guaranted by Microsoft to work expectedly
    They can't do that now, how do you expect them to do that in the future?
    That entirely depends on what you expect of Microsoft.
    I've come to expect that Windows will forget that my computer has a keyboard and they manage to deliver that at least a few times a week.

    Work expectedly isn't always the same as work as it should.