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Re:Microsoft Shares Soar to Record on Earnings Boost From Cloud by trendia on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:18PM (#12761670)
I'm not calling anyone an idiot, I'm just wondering whether their increase in share price is the result of developing new products or simply moving old products to a subscription model.
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Re:Microsoft Shares Soar to Record on Earnings Boost From Cloud by jtrtoo on Friday October 21, 2016 @01:22PM (#12762458)
Creating useful /comparable to the end user editions of old (packaged software) products and offering them in a new way entirely is developing a new product.

People aren't simply signing up to pay by the month (though that can be desirable to some folks in itself). They're actually getting something different.

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