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Kernel panic at Microsoft

Microsoft is looking increasingly disoriented lately. It`s doing a million things, and delivering nothing. If I were a volume licensing victim, I`d be wanting my money back.

03 January 2006

In 2001, Microsoft introduced a subscription-based volume licence system, called Licencing 6.0, the annual fee that buys you all sorts of nice things, including something the company refers to as “upgrades”. On its third anniversary, early in 2004, I wrote in this column that customers who chose this more predictable way of paying for their software, might be a little annoyed that no upgrades have been forthcoming during their three-year subscription period.

In response to a chilly reception, Microsoft has added benefits to the programme, but Vista, previously known as Longhorn, the biggest upgrade since Windows XP, remains vaporware.

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