MS Office on the move.

Microsoft Office is being tested on a subscription basis. The Redmond juggernaut is proposing to bundle their Office productivity suite with a range of security packages and free web services. For a fee, of course!

Subsribers will receive Windows Live Mail and Office Live Workspace on top of Windows Live One Care (not sure why everything is ‘Live’, it’s hardly going to be ‘Dead’…well, I hope not!).

The green grass of Albany.

This announcement doesn’t in any way suggest that Microsoft is moving away from its traditional sales model. The project, codenamed Albany, has been designed to target users who don’t want, or need, to buy a perpetual licence for Office. Add in the popularity and flexibility of Google Apps and you can see why Microsoft is eyeing this market space with very keenly.

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