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Microsoft to Lease Office

Author:Kip DeGraaf
Posted:11/9/1999; 8:02:34 AM
Topic:Microsoft to Lease Office
Msg #:12884
Prev/Next:12883 / 12885

What's not to get? This is Microsoft's bread and butter for the next 5 years. Instead of producing a new "version" of Office every two years, they hope to get $5-$15/user/month on a regular basis. Steady reliable income and they can justify it by saying no upgrade hassles to the end user.

That is, until the leased user wants to collaborate with someone who is using the old standalone version of Office.

Plus Microsoft needs to do this before Sun's Staroffice comes alive with their web-centric version.

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