{"id":1662,"date":"2008-07-04T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Microsoft_Dips_A_Toe_In_The_SaaS_Pool"},"modified":"2008-07-04T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T10:30:00","slug":"microsoft-dips-a-toe-in-the-saas-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Dips A Toe In The SaaS Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft only has a few cash cows, but they&#8217;re enormous cash cows. Their suite of Office programs isn&#8217;t cheap, and many users just root around for old discs or pirated versions when they&#8217;re loading up a new PC. Microsoft is trying out offering the software as a service (SaaS) for a $70 per year subscription price, along with a few goodies like their antivirus software. It might be the wave of the future for the Redmond, Washington giant. Subscription pricing for software has become commonplace in businesses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft only has a few cash cows, but they&#8217;re enormous cash cows. Their suite of Office programs isn&#8217;t cheap, and many users just root around for old discs or pirated versions when they&#8217;re loading up a new PC. Microsoft is trying out offering the software as a service (SaaS) for a $70 per year subscription price, along with a few goodies like their antivirus software. It might be the wave of the future for the Redmond, Washington giant. Subscription pricing for software has become commonplace in businesses <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1662\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}