[djf]

I've been tellin folks for years they have topped out on new PC sales and revenue, and the next step is some type of subscription service.

But they don't believe me!!

[Publius6961]

With Microshaft, everything and anything is possible.
They could put effort into getting the bugs out of XP, devising a way to secure downloads and limit them to what is actually desired by the user, a way tonuke pop-ups and eliminate phishing... in short, the improvement of what most of us already use and is already in place.

Most of us would be willing to pay for the incremental improvements --- without having to experience a new, bloated, improved operating system.

It is that easy. Is hundreds of millions in the revenue stream not good enough?

[JerseyHighlander]

This is one of the funniest things I've ever read.

Let's mix a proprietary OS, a failed dotcom bubble business plan, coop the microloans idea with usury levels of interest, and wrap it in flowery "let' save the 3rd world brown people" marketing packaging. MS is desperate.


You can build a pc for the price of a retail copy of Windows XP.

Maybe that professor with the $100 laptop and the Ubuntu suite finally got them scared?

[JerseyHighlander]

How can you attempt to get distribution for this scheme? Every Jose, Babatunde, and Akhmat who owns a corner store in the 3rd world will soon find out that just one single linux OS+app CD being passed around their town will end their Microsoft OS business.

I can purchase upwards of 100,000 used dell office pc's and have them delivered to any port in the world in less than 2 weeks. At an avg cost of about $45 per machine delivered. I'll throw in Ubuntu CD's for free.

MS most have lost out to Google in hiring the new crop of MBAs or something.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...Lenovo Group Ltd.

Isn't this the Chinese company that IBM sold it's PC group to last year?