Microsoft's Pay-Per-Use PC

[TransformX]

http://www.osnews.com/

Microsoft's Pay-Per-Use PC
Linked by on Tue 30th Dec 2008 19:04 UTC, submitted by jeanmarc

Microsoft A recently-filed patent from Microsoft gives us a glimpse into a possible future strategy from the software giant, wherein people buy a computer, but only pay for that portion of the computer's performance and capabilities they actually use. There's a pretty detailed summary of the plan in a Cnet article that's worth a read. It actually sounds a lot like a "cloud computing" strategy for the consumer, and it all seems to make sense, until you start to really think about it.

[Dr Mordrid]

No, it doesn't.

[cjolley]

That was my though too.
It reads like an April Fools article.

[TransformX]

Hey, I'm with you guys, though I didn't bother reading the Cnet article..

[Technoid]

The buissnes model in the patent only works in a situation where Hardware and software is INSANELY expensive and development of said HW is mooving at a glacial pace

ATM we are in a situation where HW is INSANELY cheap

[Nowhere]

Also, it this would come through...say bye-bye to fast, lean & bloatfree apps on such "platform"...

[Technoid]

fast lean and bloatfree, where where?

[cjolley]

Can you imagine the HW companies feelings about a system that gives a financial reward to users for NOT upgrading?

[TransformX]

I think I'll stick with Linux a while longer

[Jammrock]

Microsoft's patent was denied, and rightly so. Super computers have been doing "pay for processing" for decades. Slapping a new name on it doesn't give you the rights to it for the PC or "cloud" market.