[thomaswang]

Makes sense, just like for cern and probably several other previously free riders that's being removed.

MS is going for a personal subscription based lisencing solution in the near future.

If you think office is a cash cow think what windows whould be, every company whould boy this for their employers, the employers when fired e.g without a job whould buy it so that they can log in to their machine and so on. They could easily fetch 5$ a month from about a billion people if not more. Pluss servers being maybe 100$ a moth per server per company and so on.

Allowing MS to capitalize and companies being able to easier shape their own usage.

And some whould argue... A lot of people will move to Linux (no they wont (some but not a lot) simply because for most people it looks, feels and works like something made in someone's garage.

Just my guess.