Microsoft Invents $1.15/Hour Homework Fee For Kids
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John
Microsoft's vision of your computing future is on display in its just-published patent application for the Metered Pay-As-You-Go Computing Experience.

The plan, as Microsoft explains it, involves charging students $1.15 an hour to do their homework, making an Office bundle available for $1/hour, and billing gamers $1.25 for each hour of fun.

In addition to your PC, Microsoft also discloses plans to bring the chargeback scheme to your cellphone and automobile — GPS, satellite radio, backseat video entertainment system. '

Both users and suppliers benefit from this new business model,' concludes Microsoft, while conceding that 'the supplier can develop a revenue stream business that may actually have higher value than the one-time purchase model currently practiced.' But don't worry kids, that's only if you do more than 52 hours of homework a year!"

Link to patent:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220080319910%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20080319910&RS=DN/20080319910


11 year ago   (12/28/2012 5:31 PM)             Post Reply    

 
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As a student, you can actually buy the entire MS Office suite for $60: http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-us/default.aspx


11 year ago   (12/28/2012 5:32 PM)