[citation][nom]Gin Fushicho[/nom]This is actually kind of nice, I could check out a piece of they're software before I decide to buy it. That , and if some places religiously rent , it would cause the prices of permanent software to go down a little.[/citation]
In the very near future Microsoft won't sell you software, they will charge a monthly or yearly rental, if you don't keep up your subscription, you can't run your OS or any other Microsoft software you've got installed, whatever software it is, will be monthly or yearly subscription based, if you haven't kept up that subscription it stops working... Well they'll probably at first just not give you updates, but at some point once they have us by the dangly bits, it'll stop working all together.