Microsoft Pushes Everyone To The Cloud

Following up on yesterday's post about Microsoft Office's licensing changes for Windows, now it's been reported that Microsoft is also making changes to Office for Mac that pushes more businesses and home users towards using the subscription-based Office 365.

According to this week's ComputerWorld article, Microsoft stopped selling multi-user versions of Office for Mac and raised prices on one-license versions. These changes encourage Microsoft's customers to switch to a subscription-based model and start using Office 365, software in "the cloud."

The software industry has been moving to a subscription-based model and utilizing the cloud for some time (ClickTime has been at it for more than 13 years), but it's still major news when Microsoft, the biggest software company in the world, starts shifting its traditional installed-software to the cloud.