To make a strangehold on the market (is there even a market for this?), they would need huge masses of people who WANTED to pay as they used. I think the demand for that is pretty low. One shitty patent does not a stranglehold create.
What if its not basic computing? You could buy a 13 or 15 inch laptop for casual use. it will cost you 300 dlls, if you want a gaming weekend you just pay for that. most people buy their computers a bit over powered just in case. well not anymore. This patent was about regulating the cloud.
A patent application reject does NOT indicate that Microsoft can't do it; simply that they can't patent it. I don't see how that precludes us from a future of pay-to-play computing; if anything it lowers the cost of entry, so it brings us all closer to that future.
"Now you know why they sell those consoles at a loss. (wii excluded)" I know the PS3 sells at a loss, but how the hell can a 360 be selling at a loss? The highend one is the price of a PS3, and the specs come nowhere close (bluray, wifi..)
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thank god, that would have been another way for microsoft to tighten its stranglehold on the computing industry
To make a strangehold on the market (is there even a market for this?), they would need huge masses of people who WANTED to pay as they used. I think the demand for that is pretty low. One shitty patent does not a stranglehold create.
I can think of over 10,000,000 people willing to pay-as-they-go for XBOX LIVE - myself included.
$50 a year for Xbox live
$80 a month for FIOS
$78 a month for con edison
$60 per game X the 23 games I own for 360
Someone's getting rich off of me.
There is a difference between an Xbox Live membership and basic computer use.
What if its not basic computing? You could buy a 13 or 15 inch laptop for casual use. it will cost you 300 dlls, if you want a gaming weekend you just pay for that. most people buy their computers a bit over powered just in case. well not anymore. This patent was about regulating the cloud.
@Flashpoint -
Now you know why they sell those consoles at a loss. (wii excluded)
A patent application reject does NOT indicate that Microsoft can't do it; simply that they can't patent it. I don't see how that precludes us from a future of pay-to-play computing; if anything it lowers the cost of entry, so it brings us all closer to that future.
Apparently they've had something like this for quite a while in developing countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FlexGo
Another Microsoft Failure !!
Mo ha ha ha ha ha ha !!!!... Said the Penguin to the Leopard.
"Now you know why they sell those consoles at a loss. (wii excluded)"
I know the PS3 sells at a loss, but how the hell can a 360 be selling at a loss? The highend one is the price of a PS3, and the specs come nowhere close (bluray, wifi..)