The patent - Pay-As-You-Go Computing Experience - of MicroSoft has been rejected

The news of a patent filling by Microsoft describing the means of payment according to usage for its software must have been written with the wrong ink. We have just learned that this patent application has been rejected. Some of the terms are too fuzzy, and other part of the request are already covered by other patents. Microsoft has the choice between accepting this refusal or making a modified request.