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Corporate America Wary of Subscription Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oooh-look-how-fine-this-print-is dept.

medical_geek writes: "According to this article on cio.com, MS's subscription service is failing in the business world. I guess that personal users are not the only group that balks at paying a yearly fee for software. My question is have you at your job bit the bullet and signed up as an early adopter, or are you rolling the dice and seeing if this experiment fails?" This article focuses only on Microsoft, but the same analysis probably explains why ASPs haven't taken off like they were supposed to, either.

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  1. No by matty · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    We expect people who run a very popular weblog/discussion site who constantly preach openness and free speech and who also say that the site is self-moderated to actually live up to their word instead of moderating an entire thread of well over 100 posts down indiscrimantly instead of letting the users take care of it themselves.

  2. You don't need MS anymore by MrIcee · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I suspect that as this year progresses, we will see corporations, and even governments, moving away from Microsoft.

    Why?

    1... MS's WHOREing pricing policy... high prices for crappy software.

    2... MS's insecure software... companies and corporations are not going to stand for viruses and worms hitting their systems every few weeks... data recovery is expensive.

    3... MS's illegal business practices... as well as illegal tax and dividend practices.

    4... Companies are increasingly wary that MS is looking over their shoulder... if viruses can send your email around... what's to keep MS from looking all over your hard drive for insider information, mail information etc... CONSIDER this as well, if you are a government... are YOU going to let your data be read by others outside the office (whether by virus, or by secret intent?). I think not!

    Corporations are sick of being whored.... in our own corporation we are phasing out all MS products and computers. As each machine retires, it is being replaced by UNIX boxes (SUN, OSX etc).

    So not only is MS's business practices going to kill itself... it will kill Intel, DELL, Compaq, and right down the line... as people are convinced that anything with MS on it is appaling insecure... overpriced... and not worth the gamble.

    Say NO to microsoft... say NO to their forced pricing changes... say NO to SOFTWARE UPDATE (just how many new features do you need anyway)... and say NO to their proposed INCREASED SECURITY -- there are plenty of secure systems out there today... that don't require rewriting... and that don't crash... and that don't email your private data to the entire world.