{"id":1628,"date":"2008-02-11T08:06:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T08:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/02\/11\/microsoft-streaming-office-infringes-license.aspx"},"modified":"2008-02-11T08:06:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T08:06:17","slug":"microsoft-streaming-office-infringes-license-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1628","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: Streaming Office &#8216;infringes license&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Microsoft has said that the Internet service provider Fasthosts, which has started offering a hosted version of Microsoft Office 2007, is infringing on the software giant&#8217;s license regulations. <\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the U.K.-based ISP and hosting company started selling an online version of Microsoft Office, advertised as being &#8220;streamed to your PC.&#8221; However, unlike most hosted software, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/ByDesign%2C-SAP-introduces-on-demand-business\/2100-1012_3-6208931.html?tag=st.nl\">software as a service<\/a> (SaaS), it requires users to download software to their client PC.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fasthosts&#8217; Microsoft Office product uses the SaaS model in that it is delivered and managed via the Internet,&#8221; explained Mark Jeffries, Fasthosts&#8217; chief technology officer, on Thursday. Speaking with CNET News.com sister site ZDNet UK via e-mail, Jeffries said that a &#8220;full version Microsoft Office, identical to the boxed product, is downloaded using a streaming service and saved locally on a user&#8217;s PC.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Microsoft-Streaming-Office-infringes-license\/2100-1012_3-6229776.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Microsoft-Streaming-Office-infringes-license\/2100-1012_3-6229776.html\">http:\/\/www.news.com\/Microsoft-Streaming-Office-infringes-license\/2100-1012_3-6229776.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has said that the Internet service provider Fasthosts, which has started offering a hosted version of Microsoft Office 2007, is infringing on the software giant&#8217;s license regulations. Earlier this week, the U.K.-based ISP and hosting company started selling an online version of Microsoft Office, advertised as being &#8220;streamed to your PC.&#8221; However, unlike most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}