Fasthosts Offers MS Office Online
A UK-based hosting company offers MS Office online, using the approach of SaaS (software as a service) but not like the usual. It requires their subscriber to download software to the client PC.
“Fasthosts’ Microsoft Office product uses the SaaS model in that it is delivered and managed via the internet,” explained Mark Jeffries, Fasthosts’ chief technology officer, on Thursday. Speaking with ZDNet.co.uk via email, Jeffries said that a “full version Microsoft Office, identical to the boxed product, is downloaded using a streaming service and saved locally on a user’s PC”.
The cost starts at £4.99 monthly subscription fee for this online Microsoft Office 2007 service.
Benefits:
- Full Microsoft Office suite functionality
- No contract ties
- Streamed directly to your PC online – no cds or disks required
- Latest Security updates automatically installed
- Always use the latest version of software – with no additional cost
[ via ZDNet UK ]
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Microsoft doesn’t like Fasthosts’ Office SaaS
Feb 25, 2008 at 3:21 am
[…] this month, the UK-based hosting company named Fasthosts offered an online Microsoft Office as SaaS. But Microsoft is not happy about it, claiming that there are copyright infringement violation […]
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