I was going to say that HP tried this with servers a while back, and isn't this the basic idea behind cloud computing? The more capacity you need, the more you pay.
Although I think I'll stick with my paid for 4 cores and switch to Linux totally, if they try this.
Although with many users replacing their computers every 6-10 years (and upgrading their operating systems at the same time), I can understand why Microsoft want to try and do something like this.
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