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Microsoft outlines pay-per-use PC vision
Published 12/29/2008 by David Meyer at CNET News - Business Tech
Microsoft has applied for a patent on metered, pay-as-you-go computing.
U.S. patent application number 20080319910 , published on Christmas Day, details Microsoft's vision of a situation where a "standard model" of PC is given away or heavily subsidized by someone in the supply chain. The end user then pays ...
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