The launch of new and revised Office 365 software-by-subscription plans for businesses shows that Microsoft realizes its current licensing revenue is threatened by cost-cutting customers, an analyst said yesterday. "Microsoft wants to ...
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Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac as much as 17% and stopped selling multi-license packages of the application suite. The move puts Office for Mac 2011 on the same pricing schedule as the new Office 2013 for ...
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Microsoft yesterday confirmed that a retail copy of Office 2013 is permanently tied to the first PC on which it's installed, preventing customers from deleting the suite from one machine they own and installing it on another. The move is ...
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Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac by as much as 17 percent, and has also stopped selling multi-licence packages of the application suite. The move puts Office for Mac 2011 on the same pricing schedule as the new ...
Through its new Smart Plan platform, Alcatel-Lucent wants to make mobile subscription plans more flexible and allow data packages to be shared among users and handed out by companies to their customers using an application on smartphones ...
Microsoft this week launched the first two of its new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for Office. The company's rarely-shy CEO Steve Ballmer called the sales approach "an entirely new way to think about the productivity experience," and ...
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Microsoft's new pay-as-you-go Office 365 subscription plans differ from traditional buy-once software in one important aspect: When customers stop paying, the applications stop working. Although that makes sense -- Office isn't freeware ...
Microsoft will launch Office 2013 and new Office 365 subscription plans today, a move that also starts the countdown clock ticking for the expiration of free previews the company distributed last year. On Monday, the Office team used ...
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A Ukraine-based startup, Devellar, has launched an online plagiarism tool that checks online content to see whether it has been duplicated. The beta version of PlagSpotter features an algorithm that "enables bloggers, journalists, ...
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Computerworld - Saying that a spokeswoman "misunderstood" questions from Computerworld, Microsoft today backtracked and confirmed that Mac owners who subscribe to the upcoming Office 365 Home Premium will be able to acquire Office for Mac ...
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Microsoft today said that a free Windows 8 and Windows RT Skype app will be ready for downloading from the Windows Store on Friday, Oct. 26. The long-rumored app -- bloggers have been posting leaked screenshots of Skype for Windows 8 for ...
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Monday, Microsoft unwrapped the next edition of its Office money maker at a press event and simultaneously launched a public preview for users to try out now. CEO Steve Ballmer touted the new software as "the most ambitious release of ...
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Microsoft must aggressively price its Office 365 subscription plans, perhaps as low as $2 a month, to convince consumers that it's better to rent software than to buy it, analysts said today. When CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives ...
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Computerworld - Although customers who subscribe to Office 365 will be able to install and run Office for Mac as part of the five-copies-per-plan deal, the Mac suite will sport few changes, Microsoft has said. Unlike Office on Windows, ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft will probably tie Office apps for the iPhone and iPad to its Office 365 "rental" subscription plans to prevent the mobile apps from cannibalizing sales and to skirt the "Apple tax," analysts said today. "I do see ...
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