Microsoft tries to sell home Office users on subscription pricing
Microsoft has unveiled its first attempt to seduce consumers into paying subscription pricing for its Office 365 package. For $99.99 a year, buyers get the Office 365 Home Premium, which gives them a license to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access applications on five computers in the home. …
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Re: Cloud storage? Not for me, or my company
SkyDrive is an optional location for your docs, not mandatory. If a user chooses to save to the cloud instead of local/company file server, then that's up to them/their problem.
Re: Cloud storage? Not for me, or my company
Optional or Default?
Big difference.
How many UK or EU people here believe their management, right up to CEO and board know what SkyDrive is and therefore that using it may breach the DPA and EU Directives?
last version I purchased was '97, been using star/open/libre office since then. Dropped the last install of Windows last Summer and moved totally to Open Suse.
No interest in a subscription... no interest in Cloud either which is fine till your shaky BT line throws a moody and shuts off the outside world.
I want my stuff outright... and I want it on my machine.. I know that doesn't fit with the future cash generation plans of big biz.. but thats their issue not mine. Its bad enough being on the eternal upgrade cycle, but the predatory pricing that abuses exchange differences really takes the ****
What is needed is for business to actually bite the bullet and defect to open source en masse instead of suckling at the abusive teat of redmond
Cue the downvotes from the redmond shills
this will never work
as the article mentions: most people dont upgrade. How are MS going to stop people using office 2007 and start using this? The only thing i can think of is to spike 2007 with a dodgy upgrade, and if that got discovered MS would be in a world of pain.
MS are too late to the party....again
How good is the new office at editing PDFs? It becomes a cheaper version of acrobat if it does it well.
Software is NOT a service
It's a tool. I don't pay subscription for my hammer or pliers I use at home, neither will I ever do so for any software.
Is anyone really suprised....
MS staff are keen to show that sticking with them would save the country money
Council staff are keen to show that the changes they implemented have saved money
If either set argued the other way they'd be sacked, and no one wants that.
The number can always be fudged depending on your view point.
Insanity
I use Office because unlike OpenOffice it works properly ... but if MS is pulling this kind of shit I think I'll put up with OO's formatting flaws. Of course only after my present version of Office becomes unusable.
While I'm at it I think I'll uninstall Skype, not that I actually use it.
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