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Originally posted by Locobot
I expect that Microsoft will require a subscription style monthly fee in order to get updates. They'll probably release it half-done too to make basically unusable if you're not subscribing. I've heard too that the encoding/encryption will make it such that copywrighted material is unaccessable without paying a fee/alerting the copywright holder. Kind of like if every photocopier at the library had a police officer stationed next to it.
Speculation on my part, but if either of these things are true I won't be upgrading.
Plus is "Longhorn" going to be Texas themed? blech.
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Well, they're applying for 10 patents A DAY (aka trying to patent everything under the sun and they'll get away with it cause the patent office blows ass) in efforts to literally make it so that nothing can interoperate with Windows unless they want it to.
