Word: trendlets
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...rather than software. For $30 a year, you subscribe to McAfee.com's "Clinic," which will protect your Net-connected computer with a program that's constantly updated with the latest digital fumigants. McAfee.com's approach is an example of what's known as an Application Service Provider, a recent trendlet among Net businesses. Increasingly, software companies deliver their stuff to you exclusively online, in tiny installments that they can automatically upgrade and maintain--you don't do a thing. Within a few years, software that comes in a box or on a CD-ROM will go the way of milk...
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