================================================ Subject: Re: Safety First... Admission after the info From: "King_Dovregubben" To: Date: Tue 21 Aug 2001 21:23:32 -0700 ================================================ You DO realize that this is simply a replacement of the currently existing agreements Microsoft has with it's large corporate customers, right? The customers that get deep discounts for multi-user licenses and support. This has NOTHING to do with retail customers. > -----Original Message----- > From: Creed Discussion List > [mailto:CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM] On Behalf Of Creed - 7M3 - Live > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:10 PM > To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM > Subject: Safety First... Admission, after the info > > > It is great for Keith to admit. When he is wrong. However, I > haven't found any information to indicate me being incorrect. > > > Since the issue seems to be that I will not admit to being > wrong. Here is another piece to the puzzle. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > Microsoft, however, is pushing its new subscription model > Software Assurance (SA) program. The software giant expects > more than 50 percent of its customers to sign up. Subscribing > to SA costs 29 percent of the end-user price per year and > gives subscribers the right to all upgrades of Office. > > To be eligible a customer needs to run the current version of > the product. Only Office XP will be the current version on > Oct. 1, so the customer first needs to upgrade. Once the cost > of the four-year SA contract is added onto the cost of the > software upgrade, users end up paying a premium of 66 > percent, the NGN calculated. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > I again know that the information regards XP office. But, the > bits are seeming to indicate that the issues that I posted > were pretty darn credible. > > I read a subscription as regarding to pay as you go. > > If predictions are that 50 percent of the customers will sign > up. Isn't that like saying that the pay up, or off you go > scenerio that I mentioned in my earlier postings? > > The best way to kill an issue is to not keep posting to the > list that inspires responses. > > Basically, if you don't believe it. Fine!!! ... I'm tired of > the credibility issues. Especially, since the issues > regarding sheep were discussed. for those that follow the > subscription scheme. Be aware of what some seem to like to do > to the poor defenseless sheep. > > You can be a pioneer into other operating systems. Make your > own, if you so choose. My choice is well known. > > Sorry if I took the comment as more than it was meant to be. > The part between two ----- above are excerpts from this link. > http://windows2000.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://iwsun4.i nfoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/05/25/010525hnfight.xml > > > > ambelina wrote: > > > HELL OF A GUY TO ADMIT YOU WERE WRONG!!! > > LV > > Amb > > > > "Keith P. Mears" wrote: > > > > > >>Thanks Amb. I did notice in the FAQ I posted that the Church has > >>withdrawn ALL endorsement of polygamy. I regret making my rash > >>"widely practiced" statement, and I'd like to thank Debbi > for calling > >>bullshit and forcing me to fins the facts. > >>----- Original Message ----- > >>From: "ambelina" > >>To: > >>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:56 PM > >>Subject: to go with Keith's polygamy. > >> > >> > >>>I found this at lds.org go to search then confrence talks. Lv > >>>Amb > >>>(and by the way I live in Utah and DO NOT practice Polygamy!!!) > >>>There are very few Poligamists here BUT they are the ones > that give Utah > >>>a bad name!! > >>> > >>> > >>>To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the > Creed-Discuss list, > >>> > >>visit: > >> > >>>http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the > Creed-Discuss list, > >>visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > >> > > > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the > Creed-Discuss list, > > visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > > > > > > > -- > "Bureaucracy is the enemy of innovation." > -- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the > Creed-Discuss list, visit: > http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp