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Corporate aren't going to buy this. Just like bad star trek movies, corporate users only buy every other edition. Right now MSFT is trying to get corporate to

Corporate aren't going to buy this. Just like bad star trek movies, corporate users only buy every other edition. Right now MSFT is trying to get corporate to switch from XP->Win7 in 3-5 years they will be looking to move Win7->Win9

smoyer 14y ago
We agree that corporations aren't going to buy this ... but they'll also worry that Windows 9 will be patterned more after Windows 8 than 7/XP. There used to be corporations that were in the opposite release cycle, but Vista effectively killed that for Microsoft.
- excuse-me 14y ago
  There are probably smart people in MSFT who hope that there won't be a Windows9 desktop. If MSFT can get everyone at home AND at work onto their services, running Office on their cloud and with all your line of business apps running on their servers. Charging customers $100/month/user for SaaS certainly beats selling them a new $100 cdrom every 5years
  - dpark 14y ago
    > Charging customers $100/month/user for SaaS certainly beats selling them a new $100 cdrom every 5years These numbers don't make a bit of sense. The most expensive Office 365 plan (excluding the ones that include desktop Office) is $14/user/month. And a license for desktop Office costs a whole lot more than $100.
    - excuse-me 14y ago
      They will make sense on somebody's Powerpoint ! There was a story on here about MSFT moving the FAA users to the cloud which worked out at $71/user - and currently nobody 'pays' for for Office ;-) With everyone now having a PC and less reason to upgrade to a new OS every 2years - the only way for MSFT to keep up revenue growth is to start charging for biz and home users for continual service stuff.
      - dpark 14y ago
        You misunderstood. I wasn't saying that these numbers don't make sense to businesses. I'm saying that the numbers you provided are completely wrong. There is no $100/user/mo option for Office 365 and a desktop Office license costs a lot more than $100.

smoyer 14y ago

We agree that corporations aren't going to buy this ... but they'll also worry that Windows 9 will be patterned more after Windows 8 than 7/XP. There used to be corporations that were in the opposite release cycle, but Vista effectively killed that for Microsoft.

excuse-me 14y ago
There are probably smart people in MSFT who hope that there won't be a Windows9 desktop. If MSFT can get everyone at home AND at work onto their services, running Office on their cloud and with all your line of business apps running on their servers. Charging customers $100/month/user for SaaS certainly beats selling them a new $100 cdrom every 5years
- dpark 14y ago
  > Charging customers $100/month/user for SaaS certainly beats selling them a new $100 cdrom every 5years These numbers don't make a bit of sense. The most expensive Office 365 plan (excluding the ones that include desktop Office) is $14/user/month. And a license for desktop Office costs a whole lot more than $100.
  - excuse-me 14y ago
    They will make sense on somebody's Powerpoint ! There was a story on here about MSFT moving the FAA users to the cloud which worked out at $71/user - and currently nobody 'pays' for for Office ;-) With everyone now having a PC and less reason to upgrade to a new OS every 2years - the only way for MSFT to keep up revenue growth is to start charging for biz and home users for continual service stuff.
    - dpark 14y ago
      You misunderstood. I wasn't saying that these numbers don't make sense to businesses. I'm saying that the numbers you provided are completely wrong. There is no $100/user/mo option for Office 365 and a desktop Office license costs a lot more than $100.