Microshaft does it again! PAYG Computing Patent Application
It does make sense, though I think $1.15 an hour is a bit steep.
-The student/parents wouldn't hav e to shell out hundreds of dollars for a program they may never use.
-The student would have access to a program that is very likely the same as he/she learns in class.
Sure there.s linux and free software, but how many schools teach linux and open office as opposed to Windows and Microsoft Office?
-The student/parents wouldn't hav e to shell out hundreds of dollars for a program they may never use.
-The student would have access to a program that is very likely the same as he/she learns in class.
Sure there.s linux and free software, but how many schools teach linux and open office as opposed to Windows and Microsoft Office?
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I doubt it. The added cost will be passed on to the student/parents.
With MS products on 85% of the computers, and my brother works for a company working hard at getting rid of any linux servers they have, it makes sense to train the students onn what they're most apt to face in the work place.
With MS products on 85% of the computers, and my brother works for a company working hard at getting rid of any linux servers they have, it makes sense to train the students onn what they're most apt to face in the work place.
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The pay as you go idea is really good for Microsoft, but what I think is that users of Linux should is create an image like png that entails a Micosoft logo and money, wind, and some street people, before and after, how unfair would their version of a OS be ? Time to wake up your local governments and send them links, All the "Tafe" schools in Australia get free MS+Adobe products to train there students with, so when they grad or during school they go out and pay $2000+ a copy of the latest adobe suite etc. Sure Ms has a good plan, But we can do better.
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And we should be preparing kids for the future. By the way, Russia's entire education system runs Linux, with others wanting to follow. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 22/1648209darrelljon wrote:The workplace of the future may not include Microsoft.
Don't worry, pay as you go is the kind of thing kids are used to. It's more like an arcade machine system. Just replace the login screen with 'insert coins'
Oh, and one other thing; welcome back Clippy. It's now Microsoft's number one asset.
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it not just Russia only, it's South America, China, and some of Europe.Aronzak wrote:And we should be preparing kids for the future. By the way, Russia's entire education system runs Linux, with others wanting to follow. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 22/1648209darrelljon wrote:The workplace of the future may not include Microsoft.
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It may not but for the next several years it will.darrelljon wrote:The workplace of the future may not include Microsoft.
Linux is a great OS but until I can get the same level of support from Linux as I can from Microsoft I wouldn't want to use it in a business. Especially in a situation where I may not have the time to search forums, etc, for a fix.
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Sorry, did you just put "support" and "Microsoft" together?Trobin wrote:Linux is a great OS but until I can get the same level of support from Linux as I can from Microsoft I wouldn't want to use it in a business. Especially in a situation where I may not have the time to search forums, etc, for a fix.darrelljon wrote:The workplace of the future may not include Microsoft.
Well, if you want to go on hold for hours, without having any of your problems solved, feel free to ring any of us up. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=jOh6Nh8w6 ... re=related
Yes I did, and in the same sentence yet. As for waiting times, you can hardly blame that on the person at the other end who barely has time to document one case before he needs to answer the phone for the next caller. As for not getting problems solved which ones? I've solved a few when I worked as a MS techie, Can think of lots of people that solved more MS problems than they were unable to solve.
Sure it's not perfect, but it's there.
If I have a problem with Puppy Linux is there a 1-800 line I can phone to get any kind of help?
Sure it's not perfect, but it's there.
If I have a problem with Puppy Linux is there a 1-800 line I can phone to get any kind of help?
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This is probably a good thing.....because it will mean the end of Microsoft's heyday, if not the big end. Nobody is going to fall for that BS. If this goes down people can always go to Mac if they aren't adventurous enough to switch to Linux. There are also the commercial distros such as RedHat too.
Office and IE will likely be first to get their death blow due to the availability of Firefox and OpenOffice.
I can't believe that they would have the nerve to do that though.
Office and IE will likely be first to get their death blow due to the availability of Firefox and OpenOffice.
I can't believe that they would have the nerve to do that though.
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There was a time when Microsoft stood up to and challenged IBM.The workplace of the future may not include Microsoft.
Now they are superseded by Google.
When Linux becomes inevitably dominant, it will find its nemesis arises too.
Change is the only certainty.
I recently saw a TV ad - I was sure it was an Open Source ad from IBM maybe. It was Microsoft getting desperate - another Seinfeld moment.
Could not find the ad but this made me laugh . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MimCZikP8cY
Filing a patent application is not the same thing as actually starting a service.Stevo954 wrote:This is probably a good thing.....because it will mean the end of Microsoft's heyday, if not the big end. Nobody is going to fall for that BS. If this goes down people can always go to Mac if they aren't adventurous enough to switch to Linux. There are also the commercial distros such as RedHat too.
Office and IE will likely be first to get their death blow due to the availability of Firefox and OpenOffice.
I can't believe that they would have the nerve to do that though.
I view it as a defensive move. There are a lot of outfits working in the SAAS (Software As A Service) space using distributed web coimputing. MS makes its money on sales of software intended to be installed on local systems. The rise of things like cheap Linux desktops and Google Docs means it's becoming more possible to dispense with both - run a fairly modest machine with a flavor of Linux and a browser, and access the applications you need on the web. Store your data there, too. who needs Windows and Office?
With this patent in place, MS can attempt to block various outfits who want to charge by the hour for use of online hosted applications, by claiming patent infringement. They may not have a legal leg to stand on, but many outfits don't have the time or resources to fight that sort of thing in court.
And filing a patent application is not the same thing as actually getting a patent, so this may come to nothing. One prime patent blocker is prior art. You can't get a patent on something claiming it's a new idea if it can be demonstrated that someone already did that previously, and what you have is neither new nor unique.
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