
especially as Google make more and more stupidly expensive things obsolete for the average user (like MSOffice)
If I could avoid the overpriced subscriptions that I am forced to pay for Autodesk products, or have a pay as you go version I'd be quite happy.
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Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:14,
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If I could avoid the overpriced subscriptions that I am forced to pay for Autodesk products, or have a pay as you go version I'd be quite happy.

Try handing an non-Office text or spreadsheet file to a business client over here.
Also, it simply is not credible that prices would go down if software was in the cloud. You'd be in a position where your progress on a task could be effectively held to ransom because you don't own the means of production (there, I said it). It's naive to think that companies would not take full advantage of that position.
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Mon 20 Jun 2011, 15:22,
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Also, it simply is not credible that prices would go down if software was in the cloud. You'd be in a position where your progress on a task could be effectively held to ransom because you don't own the means of production (there, I said it). It's naive to think that companies would not take full advantage of that position.

instant conversion of stupid docx files and all that sort of thing.
Plus obviously being able to get on with work even if I'm working in a strange office on someone else's computer without having to try and convince the IT twat that a portable hard drive isn't a security risk. lovely stuff :)
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Plus obviously being able to get on with work even if I'm working in a strange office on someone else's computer without having to try and convince the IT twat that a portable hard drive isn't a security risk. lovely stuff :)