Will Microsoft stream Office to users?
InternetNews | at | by Mike
If you can't beat 'em ? surround 'em. That may be the crux of Microsoft's emerging strategy for combating emerging software-as-a-service competitors.
Although Microsoft executives continue to criticize Office competitors such as OpenOffice.org, Sun's StarOffice, and Google Docs as inadequate for most users' needs, the company is not beyond changing directions when it sees that the herd is going against it.
That includes, according to a third-party firm that claims to have been briefed, upcoming software licensing changes that will let companies stream Microsoft's Office applications to users' desktops as different parts of the programs are needed.