Wow, charging to fix a crappy product.

Roger Oberholtzer roger
Fri Feb 10 04:51:32 PST 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 21:06 -0800, Ken Leyba wrote:
> Not really, but it is a unique way of getting subscription fees from
> the millions of XP users.  Didn't they try to figure out a way of
> getting recoccuring fees for the OS before?  Now they figured out how
> to do it, instead of fixing the problem, continuously charge you for
> masking the problem.

I thought Windows was already a subscription fee product. Every year or
so, you pay a fee and get a new version. And you need the new version to
remain 'compatible'. 

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