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Microsoft "Albany" Offers Office and Security as Subscription
News.com is reporting that Microsoft has confirmed a subscription service is in the works for the next consumer version of their Office Suite. "Code-named Albany, the product has a single installer that puts Office Home and Student, OneCare, as well as a host of Windows Live services, onto a user's PC. As long as users keep paying for the subscription, they are entitled to the latest versions of the products. Once they stop paying, they lose the right to use any version."
We'll charge nothing at all for linux and open office, and you're entitled to all upgrades for free.
But as long as you save in OOXML you can always read your data ... it's an ISO standard!
the state capital of NY, it'll cost a lot of money, spend years trying to accomplish anything, and work only part of the year.
...the balkanization of software.
Fleur de Sel
Given the wildly unsuccessful way that people took to subscription music services, I can see this being as successful as, say, the Zune.
Where the frack do you rent a dictionary? Wouldn't borrowing one at the library be easier?
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
This bears repeating.
Thats an annoying bear.
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