In response to Creative Cloud Microsoft emphasizes its hybrid approach

"For the Redmond will take at least 10 years to fully switch delivering software-as-a-service. For the end user the step is not so elementary and by the time Microsoft offers hybrid solutions "

A few days ago Adobe announced the new project that Creative Cloud eliminates the boxed versions of Creative Suite and provides the well-known applications on a subscription basis. The subscription to the single product for Adobe You can just kind of monthly, and besides being able to have the specific application presents various cloud services useful to sharing projects.

In this radical choice of Adobe Microsoft responds from your blog dedicated to Office with some considerations. It should be clear that the Redmond for some years now look carefully at software-as-a-service with Office 365 and showed the audience a solution based entirely on the cloud. But compared to Adobe Microsoft has a different view.

Even Microsoft is convinced that the software-as-a-service is the future but for the moment shows a less radical approach. The Redmond argues that the transition to a system based entirely on subscription can not be completely carried out before the next ten years. The end user must perceive the benefits of the new proposal, understand its potential and then consciously choose to pay no more only software, but also to access a range of services.

As reported in the comments of the Office blogs by some users, is the aspect of the services to create more confusion. In a domestic environment it is not obvious that it is really necessary always have the latest version of Word, just to give an example . By moving the discourse on the professional level, it is said that a photographer or designer has a real need to upgrade your system from a version of Photoshop to the next.

They are also choices that affect the way in which the professional planning their investments, not only the features or benefits which may be offered. For this reason, to Office 365 - a solution for software-as-a-service - alongside the classic boxed versions of the Microsoft suite. It is, however, introduced the concept of underwriting with regard to Microsoft's cloud services, and these resources are increasingly embedded in software as in the case SkyDrive.