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MICROSOFT HAS DROPPED the pilot for its Office XP End User Subscription Licensing (ESL) program, an initiative that saw consumers rent copies of the office productivity software at discounted prices.

Under the ESL, consumers could rent a version of Office XP at well below the normal boxed price, but the license was not perpetual. This meant that the software would expire at the end of the subscription period. 

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Microsoft 11985 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Microsoft may backtrack on a pledge not to use its online gaming service to crack down on "mod chips"--chips that modify the Xbox console so it can run copied game discs and unlicensed software.

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Microsoft 11985 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Late today, Microsoft will unveil the Beta 1 release of Windows Media Player 9, a significant upgrade over the Media Player for Windows XP product the company is now shipping as part of Windows XP, as well as a host of other Windows Media 9 Series products that run the gamut from server-side content delivery to local media encoding. Windows Media 9 Series is the company's most comprehensive multimedia product launch ever.

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