Down in Australia, software companies acted out a little play with politicians In Australia’s capital, the local leaders of software giants like Microsoft, Adobe and Apple got together with politicians to act out a little play. It was all under the guise of a ‘parliamentary enquiry‘ but it was a scripted and predicable as anything […]
How might Microsoft increase the cost of Office 365? The often quoted price for an Office 2013/365 subscription is only for the first year, so how might Microsoft increase the price? There’s all sorts of opportunities for Microsoft to raise revenue from Office subscribers once they’ve put themselves on the annual fee track rather than […]
Even the New York Times falls for Microsoft’s spin on Office 2013/365 prices Microsoft has played a clever game with Office 2013 subscription pricing and the media has taken the bait with the proverbial hook, line and sinker. Take this generally positive review of Office 2013 titled “Subscribing to Office, Now and forever” from the […]
Problems installing Office 2013 made much worse by a useless error message. Installing Office 2013 as a subscription can be an exercise in frustration thanks to some very naïve decisions by Microsoft. It’s a problem with the ‘Click to Run’ streaming install used by Office 365 subscribers. You click on the small install program and […]
Microsoft backs down and lets you move Office 2013 between computers. In an astonishing backdown, Microsoft has quietly announced that Office 2013 retail purchases will now be transferable between computers. The initial retail license terms for Office 2013 had a very different requirement than all the past version of Microsoft Office. With Office 2013 retail […]