"Morgans" wrote in message
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I thought that Vista was going to be a yearly fee license. I would stick
with XP, I think! That sucks, IMHO

No, not for consumers. Microsoft has for years had subscription licenses to
a variety of their products, and Vista will have that option as well. But
end-users are going to have the usual "pay once" license.

Of course, with product activation, there's no such thing as a perpetual
license anymore. So you do effectively have a subscription...you just pay
for it once, and it runs out whenever Microsoft decides you should stop
using their software (well, you can keep using it until the first time you
have to reinstall it, anyway).

Pete