Ummmm, how about no? Lol!
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Microsoft Specs Out "Pay as you go" PC scheme
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Microsoft Specs Out "Pay as you go" PC scheme
"SILENCE, I KILL YOU!!" - Achmed the Dead Terrorist
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The day this happens is the day I quit gaming. Who the hell do they think they are, and what gives them the right to monitor my computer activities and charge me for them!? I hope this is only an idea, one that won't see the light of day. If it should come to pass, then I hope it is merely an option and people can still go out and buy PC in full or build them on their own "governor" free. What an incredibly presumptuous and arrogant idea!
they can have the pattent besides a internet cafie I see no real use for this. I don't want to pay subscriptions for a OS and crap like Microsoft is moving towards, and if that ever happens sorry I may be a big pc gamer but that will most likely be enough for e to get a console and move all my systems to linux or hell a mac even
Actually, the article does mention gaming on page 2.
Pricing could be on an hourly rate, perhaps with different "bundles" priced according to the software offered and the hardware necessary to run that software. A bundle of productivity applications, for example, might include word processing and spreadsheet software that could access two of three processor cores and a medium level of graphics performance for, say, $1 an hour.
A "gaming bundle," meanwhile, would make available all the PC's processor cores and 3-D graphics support for $1.25 an hour.
Pricing could be on an hourly rate, perhaps with different "bundles" priced according to the software offered and the hardware necessary to run that software. A bundle of productivity applications, for example, might include word processing and spreadsheet software that could access two of three processor cores and a medium level of graphics performance for, say, $1 an hour.
A "gaming bundle," meanwhile, would make available all the PC's processor cores and 3-D graphics support for $1.25 an hour.
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MS can kiss my a$$.Softball wrote:Actually, the article does mention gaming on page 2.
Pricing could be on an hourly rate, perhaps with different "bundles" priced according to the software offered and the hardware necessary to run that software. A bundle of productivity applications, for example, might include word processing and spreadsheet software that could access two of three processor cores and a medium level of graphics performance for, say, $1 an hour.
A "gaming bundle," meanwhile, would make available all the PC's processor cores and 3-D graphics support for $1.25 an hour.
But wait a minute, this probably only applies to games made by a Microsoft studio. I dont see how they could legally charge you per hour to play a pc game that was not made by them.
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they have been talking about this sort of thing a subscriptin for software for a dogs age but in realiaty besides some small groups where it makes sence its a compleate waste of time and going to be a flop when said and done and if tey push it to there operating system see how many buisness and people say we don't want another bill lets go the free way to linux or to mac its M$ way of shooting themselves in the foot