anandk
18-07-2007, 07:29 PM
Like you top up your pre-paid mobile SIM cards, you can now buy/use Microsoft Software in that fashion ! Microsoft has launched a pay-as-you-go computing system aimed at making its office software more accessible for people in emerging markets.
Microsoft will charge say x for a 3 month subscription to use Microsoft Office 2007 and first-time users will get an extra three months for free.
After that, customers top up their subscription as they go...The technology, based on the pre-paid cell phone model that has proved a hit throughout the developing world, is being launched in South Africa and Romania this month, and may be available in other markets at a later date. Reuters (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-07-17T161943Z_01_L17800240_RTRUKOC_0_US-MICROSOFT-SAFRICA.xml).
Microsoft will charge say x for a 3 month subscription to use Microsoft Office 2007 and first-time users will get an extra three months for free.
After that, customers top up their subscription as they go...The technology, based on the pre-paid cell phone model that has proved a hit throughout the developing world, is being launched in South Africa and Romania this month, and may be available in other markets at a later date. Reuters (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-07-17T161943Z_01_L17800240_RTRUKOC_0_US-MICROSOFT-SAFRICA.xml).