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[goomba]

Just saw the press release that Fasthost is offering MS Office Suite as SaaS for a monthly fee. Is this a special license with Microsoft? Does anyone have more information on this? Is it streamed to the user's computer? This might be another product line to offer to our customers.

Thanks

[utropicmedia-karl]

You can offer Office under the SPLA agreement, but it needs to be hosted on your servers. So they would need to access the software with remote desktop.



Regards,

[dkitchen]

As has already been said you need to provide it as a hosted service, i.e. you cannot let your customers install it on their computers, you must install it on a server and provide access to it using Citrix / Terminal Services... (which involves licensing costs too).

Dan