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Microsoft has launched Office 365 Home Premium, a cloud-based suite of productivity tools with a $99.99-per-year subscription fee. The service is a streaming version of Office 2013, an updated version of Office that’s also going on sale today in 162 countries. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used the…
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There may be some benefit to O365, but I think that the industry is not quite ready yet at the consumer level. The biggest risk is that if you have no internet connection, the software doesn’t work (or so I’m told). For corporate America, that’s fine since most of the computing is done in an office with a network…but then again, the price of $99/yr is not for corporations.
For individuals who never leave their wired home, or who have phones/tablets always live to the Internet, this could be the way to go, but there’s still a lot of us who take laptops to places without wifi access and now lose access to write documents and update spreadsheets.
I suspect that in a few years, the Cloud portion will no longer be an issue, but will MS then raise the subscription price?