Required to Pay For Windows?

Microsoft has come up with another novel way to make its software compulsory – an annual subscription licensing system for schools where you have to pay for all of the computers you’re using, even if you don’t want them to run the Microsoft software you’r

###Is the Judge Paying Attention?

This includes Macs, and although the Ts & Cs of the agreement don’t make it entirely clear what you’re supposed to do with the Windows upgrades you end up buying for these machines, we bet putting them on eBay isn’t a recommended option.

Hopefully, the judge in the Microsoft Antitrust trial is paying attention to how blatantly Microsoft is thumbing its nose at the entire world daring us to take action.

And if you’re kidding yourself it’s impossible to top getting people to pay for software they don’t want to run on Intel boxes, and for software they can’t run on Apple boxes, check out the Microsoft UK Campus Agreement. This has you paying for software for people who don’t even have computers.

Disgusting.