What Microsoft Won’t Tell You about Office 365 Subscription Plans
IT managers are by nature conservative. It comes with the job. So your first reaction to the thought of replacing traditional software installations with subscription services is likely to be, “What’s the catch?” That’s especially true of Office 365, Microsoft’s subscription-based replacement for its traditional enterprise productivity services. Organizations worldwide run on Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and other server-based products, with users using perpetual-license versions of Microsoft Office productivity programs on Windows PCs and Macs. renew microsoft office 365 Switching to a subscription-based service means getting a more-or-less predictable monthly bill rather than writing huge checks every few years for company-wide upgrades. There are other, less tangible differences, too. Per-user licensing eliminates the headaches of buying, assigning, managing, and tracking individual software licenses and client access licenses (CALs) for server products. You assign a ...