Just like Baby Bells bundle local, long distance, DSL, and Wireless plans into one bucket, Microsoft may want to bundle services together like that. They can start out with Anti-Virus services, and then offer more, like adding on features to the OS or Office or other software packages. What used to be the Plus pack, is now a subscription service to get extra features with the OS. They can sell Longhorn in pieces and updates only to subscribers.

First Anti-Virus services into the bucket, and then Longhorn feature updates, and then Office feature updates, etc. Until they have a full bucket that companies can subscribe to.

I suppose in a way they will carefully word the EULA so that nobody can own the software, they can ony rent or lease it, and then Microsoft owns the software and provides subscribers with updates and the right to keep using it.

I wonder how much of this BS Corporations will continue to shallow before they start looking into alternatives to Microsoft software?