Word: coded
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...folks at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash. announced the latest result of their ceaseless efforts at "innovation." When the version of Microsoft Office now code-named "Office 10" arrives in late 2001, not only will consumers be able to buy the software, they'll be also able to buy an annual subscription. In other words, they pay Microsoft now, and if they don't pay again in a year to renew the subscription, their copy of Office stops working. A glowing Microsoft press release described the deal as an "exciting new opportunity" to receive the same version of Office...
...after all, the sales bring them no revenue, and a cheap market in used books lowers the demand for new books. Current publishers aren't able to wrap their books in a license agreement and prevent you from selling them after you're finished reading; with a friendly law code and the increasing penetration of electronic books into the marketplace, this could easily change. Remember those licensing requirements every time you hear someone sing the praises of e-books or of a digital library--and imagine a book that won't let you keep reading unless you put another quarter...
...after ruling out the morgue, Coelho sent the real estate agents to find Gore's troops new digs in Nashville--this time at a rehabilitation clinic called the Sundance Center. And Sundance just happened to be Gore's Secret Service code name...
...India's prowess in information technology isn't a new phenomenon. For years, the southern city of Bangalore has been a high-tech oasis where Indians write code for international tech giants and export software to the world. But the Net promises to push the IT boom into India's mainstream. Cities like Hyderabad, Bombay and New Delhi are promising telecom links and tax holidays to prospective business investors. "India always had the talent, but with the Internet, we've found the delivery mechanism to transport this talent around the globe," says Prakash Gurbaxani, who set up his own dotcom...
...date, the bonanza for India has come from the equivalent of the Internet's boiler room--writing code and other labor-intensive work. But that's Big Business in its own right, employing more than 50,000 people and expected to provide more than a million jobs by 2008. Indian software exports have grown from $50 million in 1993 to $6.3 billion this year. Ramalinga Raju, billionaire chairman of Satyam Computer Services, says those opportunities could eventually give India 5% of the worldwide opportunities in IT and create up to 50 million jobs in the next two decades...