Originally Posted by signupdamnit

It's the same for their software too. I remember when Microsoft used to openly declare that they wanted to move fully to a mandatory "software as a service" where you pay a monthly or yearly fee forever instead of actually owning your copy of Windows or Office.

I remember when they introduced something like "smart tags" in IE for a brief time until the backlash made them kill it. Basically by default Microsoft wanted to add a link whenever certain words were mentioned anywhere in the browser and on non-Microsoft websites without permission.

http://betanews.com/2001/06/28/micro...es-smart-tags/