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."

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This will be teh death of MacroSuck(tm)

[macs4all]

What MS's game plan is, IMHO, is to introduce the suppository service, then raise the price of the boxed version until no one can afford to use anything but the suppository version.

Then, they simply keep inching up the suppository fee, year by year, version by version...

The only problem with their plan is, the alternatives are getting as good, and in some ways better than, the "original".

And once Office and Exchange are no longer dominant, can Windows be far behind?

Re:Also illegal, at least in Canada

[timmarhy]

they ARE making viewers you nob head. honestly you people will just invent problems when you can't find any real ones.