Smaller businesses can now sign onto the subscription-based apps offered in Microsoft Online Services.
Microsoft said Monday it will let smaller businesses use some of its key software applications over the Internet later this year, a sign of the company's rapid move to the Internet-centric computing favored by competitors Google and Salesforce.com.
Last September,Microsoft opened its hosted software program, called Microsoft Online Services, to businesses worldwide with more than 5,000 users. Businesses pay a per-user subscription fee to access applications such as e-mail that are hosted on Microsoft's servers.
Those subscription-based services are typically cheaper for companies than installing applications on their own hardware. Other advantages include faster software updates and lower maintenance costs.
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