Archive for July, 2008

So, here it comes. Pretty soon you won’t be running most applications on your computer. Instead of paying a couple hundred dollars one time, you will be spending money each month to “subscribe” to the service that provides the same function.

Microsoft Corp introduced on Wednesday 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.

I can’t help but wonder what all of the laptop memory companies are thinking of this. I imagine, with everything in the cloud, people won’t be needing as much memory as they did before.

Cloud computing. A wonderful idea. Until it starts to rain.

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This article actually came as quite a shock to me. Because DISH and AT&T are breaking up? No. Because DISH needs AT&T to survive? No. Then why?

Satellite TV provider Dish Network said Tuesday that AT&T will end its agreement to bundle its TV service with AT&T’s broadband and phone service at the end of the year.

AT&T and Dish have had a joint marketing deal since July 2003, which allows AT&T to package the Dish TV service with AT&T’s phone and Internet packages. But AT&T has decided not to renew the agreement, and as required by the contract between the two companies, AT&T is giving Dish six months notice that the deal will expire December 31, 2008.

I was shocked because I never got a chance to bundle all my services. Not that I would have, but here in former Bellsouth territory, all of the bundles I have seen are with DirecTV.

I never received an offer to bundle my services. I had no idea DISH and AT&T were working together. Now that’s marketing for you. Great job guys! You need to take a clue from the guys who market Orovo. At least I have heard of that, and knew that it was available.

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