Microsoft Invents $1.25/Hour Gaming Fee For Kids?!

“Microsoft’s vision of your computing future is on display in its just-published patent application for the Metered Pay-As-You-Go Computing Experience. The plan, as Microsoft explains it, involves charging students $1.15 an hour to do their homework, making an Office bundle available for $1/hour, and billing gamers $1.25 for each hour of fun. In addition to your PC, Microsoft also discloses plans to bring the chargeback scheme to your cellphone and automobile — GPS, satellite radio, backseat video entertainment system. ‘Both users and suppliers benefit from this new business model,’ concludes Microsoft, while conceding that ‘the supplier can develop a revenue stream business that may actually have higher value than the one-time purchase model currently practiced.’ But don’t worry kids, that’s only if you do more than 52 hours of homework a year!” -theodp from SlashDot.com

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. Microsoft can’t be loosing that much fucking money that they have to charge people to do their fucking homework, and play a god damn game. If this is what the internet and Microsoft are going to, then I’m going to Linux, which is even better than Windows, for good. F.U. Microsoft.

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