Microsoft doesn’t like Fasthosts’ Office SaaS
Just 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 offering Microsoft Office through software streaming.
But Fasthosts holds to its claim that there was no violation. According to the article published by David Meyer for ZDNET UK,
“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.com.au’s sister site ZDNet.co.uk via e-mail, 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”.
“Fasthosts is a valued Microsoft partner who we have a great relationship with”, said Michala Wardell, head of anti-piracy at Microsoft UK, last week. “At present, streaming Microsoft products like Office 2007 via the Web infringes our licence regulations. Fasthosts have been informed of this and we are currently working with them to rectify this situation.”
“Fasthosts has understood, and has had confirmed to it, that the facilitation of this approval is through the production of an addendum to the current SPLA, a decision confirmed in meetings between Microsoft European SPLA Division and a Fasthosts’ software streaming partner in January of this year,” Fasthosts’ statement continued. “Fasthosts and Fasthosts’ partners have therefore worked with the European and Worldwide SPLA teams in getting approval for this service prior to launch, in order to bring this innovative new offering to market.”
While this issue is still under dispute among parties, Fasthosts still offers the service online as of the moment. For more details and FAQs about this Streaming Software Service, please click here.
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