I believe so. I'll have to check. At the worst, we have the MSI installs grandfathered in to whatever is current.
Kurt On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > For office msi? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 2:50 PM > To: ntsysadm > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps of general interest... > > Not for at least another 3 years, and possibly longer - we just signed an EA. > > Kurt > > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Then you are going to need to switch to something other than Microsoft >> Office. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff >> Sent: Thursday, July 6, 2017 2:07 PM >> To: ntsysadm >> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps of general interest... >> >> Yes, but I prefer to "own" my software, not rent it. That way we can upgrade >> at need, rather than when the vendor says so, and will probably spend far >> less money doing so. >> >> The "own" in quotes merely points to not paying monthly rental - we all know >> that commercial software is only licensed, not truly sold. >> >> I just don't want to be a piggybank for the software publishers - I don't >> mind paying for good functionality, nor paying for ongoing support. >> >> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Many big vendors today are pushing a cloud strategy, as it more >>> readily facilitates ongoing revenue and supporting a smaller number >>> of disparate configurations. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> ASB >>> http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker >>> >>> Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market… >>> >>> GPG: 860D 40A1 4DA5 3AE1 B052 8F9F 07A1 F9D6 A549 8842 >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Very interesting. >>>> >>>> MSFT is shoving very, very hard to push everyone into their cloud, >>>> and this fits their strategy... >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Michael B. Smith >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/02/microsoft-is-laying-off-thousand >>>> > s >>>> > -of-staff/?ncid=rss >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > >
