Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>
> This problem -- this ubiquitousness of its products and, therefore,
> hair pullingly frustrating competition with earlier versions of itself
> -- is compelling Microsoft to engineer and enforce, step by step, a de
> facto subscription model for their software where you're never done
> paying.
Well. OK. In this regard, it's part and parcel of the whole "you must now rent your life" phenomenon which starts to sweep into everything. But then how does this presage its demise? Why wouldn't it get away with doing just that?
Not contentious, curious...
I would presonally be much happier with a universal UNIX OS.
Joanna