Office 365 vs. Office 2013: Should you rent or own?

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	Office 365 vs. Office 2013: Should you rent or own? For the first time Microsoft is tempting Office users to rent, not own, software that for decades they've bought as a standalone program. It's not a foreign proposition. We pay annual subscription fees for our anti-virus software. Last April, Adobe rolled out its Creative Cloud subscription package for renting Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Network World Technical Seminar SDN, Openflow and Network Virtualization event comes to NYC Attend and learn how SDN works, its potential in the enterprise, and why leading, bellwether organizations are leveraging it for data center and large-scale networking efficiency- Learn more and register for this free event. February 12, 2013 – Grand Hyatt, NYC Click to continue In this Issue Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium: A visual tour Microsoft rolls out Office 365 family plan Rumors of Microsoft-made Windows Phone Resurface Set up Windows 8 as a home server 8 must-see Microsoft's Surface tablet videos Microsoft Office 2013 is here: Hands-on impressions and buying advice Windows 8 convertibles help Lenovo break into high-end PC market Microsoft tweaks Mac Office, makes it rental New Office suite for consumers available now WHITE PAPER: Qualys Web Application Security To help you understand how to minimize these risks, Qualys provides this guide as a primer to web application security. The guide surveys typical web application vulnerabilities, compares options for detection, and introduces the QualysGuard Web Application Scanning solution Read Now! Microsoft Office 365 Home Premium: A visual tour In hopes of luring more users from Google Docs to Office 365, Microsoft has made a host of improvements to its cloud-friendly suite of productivity applications. Beyond adding stylus and touch support, Microsoft has boosted collaboration in Word, added new visualization tools to Excel, and made Outlook Facebook-friendly. Read More Microsoft rolls out Office 365 family plan Microsoft is rolling out a family plan for its Office 365 service that supports up to five machines under a single subscription, which the company says is enough to cover a typical household. Read More Rumors of Microsoft-made Windows Phone Resurface You know those rumors about Microsoft doing its own Windows Phone 8 design that were squashed a few months ago? Well, they are on again, if you trust the source. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fiberlink Communications Best Practices Guide: for Mobile Device Management This guide gives you best practices for Mobile Device Management (MDM) in the Enterprise that you can use now. Learn More Set up Windows 8 as a home server If you have multiple PCs in your home or small office, you can save time and look professional by storing your documents and media on one PC and using network sharing to access them across all your computers and devices. This prevents you from having to store duplicate copies of files and reduces confusion when trying to find which PC a file is stored on. Additionally, you only really need to worry about backing up one PC (though for safety's sake you should always back up everything on a regular basis.) Read More 8 must-see Microsoft's Surface tablet videos From drop tests to protests at launch events, the Internet has been watching Microsoft Surface closely. Read More Microsoft Office 2013 is here: Hands-on impressions and buying advice The wait is over for Office 2013 and Office 365. Starting Tuesday, the latest version of Microsoft's venerable productivity suite goes on sale to consumers and academics, both on Microsoft's Office.com site and at retail outlets. You can buy the traditional stand-alone desktop software or, for the first time, consumers and students can buy Office as a subscription service that will make multiple installations cheaper. Read More WHITE PAPER: Shoretel Aberdeen TCO Benchmarking Study on Unified Communications Total cost of ownership is a key metric for assessing costs, benefits and risks of a Unified Communications solution. Aberdeen Research analyzed the TCO associated with IP and legacy telephony systems in 236 different corporate environments. Download this research report to learn the findings. Learn more. Windows 8 convertibles help Lenovo break into high-end PC market Lenovo's CEO said sales of its Windows 8 PCs have been "normal", neither surpassing nor falling behind expectations, but added that convertible devices using the OS are helping the company break into the high-end segment for the North American market. Read More Microsoft tweaks Mac Office, makes it rental As expected, Microsoft today updated Office for Mac 2011 to work with the new Office 365 Home Premium software-by-subscription plan the company debuted Tuesday. Read More New Office suite for consumers available now Microsoft will begin selling worldwide on Tuesday the new consumer version of the Office suite, making it available both via a subscription model and perpetual licenses. Read More
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