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The Hidden Costs of Microsoft's Free Office Online
Michael_Curator writes "Despite what you've heard, the online version of Office 2010 announced by Microsoft earlier this week won't be free to corporate users. Business customers will either have to pay a subscription fee or purchase corporate access licenses (CALs) for Office in order to be given access to the online application suite (Microsoft already does this with email — the infamous Outlook Web Access). But wait — there's more! A Microsoft spokesperson told me that customers will need to buy a SharePoint server, which ranges from $4,400 plus CALs, or $41,000 with all CALs included, if they want to share documents created using the online version of Office 2010."
Why does the poster sound so surprised by the licensing and prerequisites? It is not like this is new behavior for Microsoft.
And you can bet it won't work with any other operating system except MS Windows, and won't work with any browser except IE.
Nothing new to see here... move along...
Oh well then......Fuck Microsoft and Go Apple! :^)
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if microsoft can turn something in to a gold mine you can bet on it, raking in as much money as possible by milking it for all its worth is a big part of their business model
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