Microsoft FlexGo
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FlexGo is a technology developed by Microsoft to enable users to pay for using a fully-featured personal computer based on the amount of time it used for, similar to pay as you go for cell phones. Another method of payment would be a monthly subscription. It was introduced on May 22, 2006. IBM and other corporations are also adapting similar business models to expand into new markets.
FlexGo's main target audience are those in Third World Countries or people with unsteady income. It had been featured under a topic on Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech, Episode 57 "Vloggercon".
The model, however, has come under criticism for being a failure and for trying to exploit the poor, rather than help them.[1],[2]
