“It used to be that because everything was behind the firewall, they could architect IAM with LDAP authentication and NTLM. But now they’re got the business line going out and driving so much via SaaS.”
via Is Identity The New Perimeter? – Dark Reading.
SaaS=Software as a Service
Observers have said that, with this newest pricing shift, Microsoft is using a carrot-and-stick approach or trying to “nudge” customers toward a subscription service for Office. But I’d go a bit farther—for some buyers, it might feel like signing up with a gun to their head.
That’s because Microsoft is making it much more expensive to buy Office the old way, in order to make the new subscription model look like a better, simpler, more straightforward deal.
via Can Microsoft Convince People to Subscribe to Software? | Xconomy.