================================================ Subject: Re: Safety First... Admission after the info From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Date: Wed 22 Aug 2001 01:12:56 -0400 ================================================ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 include the excerpt again. My interpretation is towards what was posted earlier. But go back to the archives and bring forth the message that I posted. I don't keep the archives. But it might still be in my sent mail. Though, an analytical interpretation might have been added, regarding the conspiring character of MS. The song remains the same. Go for the package and try it. If subscription is better. Or choose to pay more for the later upgrade. The "mark of the beast" may not be obvious. But it is still there. Be it my imagination, or an actual effect brought out, by subscribing. I'm a little bit tired of the apologetic approach and definitely tired of the negative comments regarding my credibility and not backing down to what I believe was something that I actually heard or read. History seems to cycle in 20 years. According to the myth. Since it was around 1981, when Microsoft found it's fame. It should follow that the "new kid" (whatever OS, that would be) would follow a new breakthrough, in technology. Leaving Microsoft into historical archives. Don't take the comment about "the marK of the beast) too seriously. Remembering my philosophical debates, I do have a great imagination. (or call them from archive status.) Later, Jim --------------------------------- Debbi R wrote: > Jim, don't make me go thru the archives. You said that Microsoft was > going to require people to sign subscriptions contracts for Windows XP > then FORCE them to upgrade at their discretion. You haven't even come > close to proving that assertion. You've backpedaled to the point of > "microsoft is pushing subscription sales model for office XP" > > Nice try. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- "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