InternetMicrosoft Sets Pricing, Fee Sharing for Its Cloud
Redmond's online services will be subscription-based.
Today Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced pricing for its suite of online services targeted at corporate customers and a revenue-sharing plan to encourage other companies to sell the software company's products. The company plans to charge corporate customers a monthly subscription of $15 per user for a suite of "hosted" software, which includes e-mail, Web meeting, collaboration and messaging applications running on Microsoft's computers. Microsoft Online Services is part of the software maker's effort to capitalize on the shift by corporate customers to abandon their own in-house computer systems for "cloud computing," a less expensive alternative. The company built its business selling software to run on individual machines, both computer servers that power entire businesses and personal computers. But, in recent years, it has invested billion of dollars in massive datacenters, which are the basic infrastructure for a wide range of Web services. RELATED ARTICLES New Cheaper Storage Clouds Forming A Cloudy Forecast for the Enterprise Can the Cloud Handle Enterprise IT? Microsoft Adds Subscription Model for Office Google: Gmail Success Spells SaaS Superiority For more stories on this topic: It has started offering corporate customers the option of having Microsoft run their e-mail, collaboration or sales programs on the software giant's computers and delivering those applications over the Web as a monthly subscription... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]
InternetThe Internet Gets a Patch, as DNS Bug Is Fixed (PC World)
PC World - Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has discovered a flaw in the DNS protocol that allows attackers to spoof Internet addresses.
InternetiPhone UK websites swamped before Friday launch (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple's new iPhone sold out online in Britain ahead of its Friday launch, defying general consumer gloom as the country's economy threatened to tip over into its first recession in more than a decade.