I’ve been looking at Microsoft’s new Equipt offering which bundles Microsoft Office Home & Student, Windows Live OneCare, Office Live Workdspace, and Windows Live Services (Mail, Messenger, and Photo Gallery) into a $70 annual subscription for 3 PCs. I’ve been using most of this solution largely by accident for several months now on my Dell One and I find it does pretty much all I want to do with a productivity package and I haven’t really even used Workspace or Photo Gallery yet. That’s a little under $6 a month for a typical house of PCs for the basics.Read more at DigitalTrends.
Software Subscriptions Start to Take Shape
Posted on Saturday, July 19 2008 @ 8:26 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Digital Trends has a piece on software subscriptions. They ask the question: You already pay monthly for your TV, phone and Internet service. Why not pay monthly for your PC software?"