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| 1.2.18. Mission is No Software: | | Customer demand that no special software needs to be installed on any computer - this is a negative demand. All application services must fully operate without the need to install any proprietary software such as Office. Cost reduction and improved productivity includes using smart phones where proprietary software would not work. | | Customers have demanded and end of software versioning problems and costs. Demands include the elimination of expensive new releases of critical software with additional training and migration costs. |
| Business Requirement: | | The number one business requirement is No software to be installed on any computer. If special software needed to be installed for any reason, then the number one business requirement would become No Software. | | The cost of buying and installing proprietary software on local desktops, laptops, tablets and smart phones has proven to be very expensive and can be avoided. Only obsolete systems need proprietary software to be installed and this makes them very expensive to operate and it creates versioning incompatibility problems. |
| 8. No Special Software: | | Applications are delivered as Internet services over the public broadband connections. A new computer can be switched on, connected to the Internet and signed in to application services without any software to install. | | The capital cost of software can be avoided and the business can become more efficient with lower costs. The predictable subscription costs will be less than the unpredictable IT installation and maintenance costs for most desktops, laptops, tablets and smart phones. |
| IT Support: | | By avoiding the need to install special software, the cost of computing can be dramatically reduced. Because no special software is involved, any kind of computer with any kind of operating system can be deployed with dramatic reduction in IT costs. |
| Services: | | Application services are very different to obsolete software developments - services must be efficient because the cost of operation must be minimized. While software vendors have little concern about operational efficiency, ASP must enasure that services are of the very highest quality. |
| Office: | | For many years Microsoft Office was a valuable tool to improve productivity and provide effective methods of working. But the advent of cloud computing has seen a dramatic change in costs - Microsoft Office is no longer cost effective. Microsoft Office has evolved from purchased software needing to be installed on every desktop, laptop, tablet and smart phone to a 365 cloud service with an annual subscription. Libra Office and Google Docs have evolved as free services that are fit-for-purpose as replacements for Microsoft Office. | | Microsoft Office suffered versioning problems with each new release sporting a new file format that may be incompatable with what others were using. HTML came to the rescue as the only file format that is fully compatible between all versions of Microsoft Office, Libra Office and Google Docs. HTML has more than a billion web pages so its compatibility is guraranteed for the next 10 to 20 years. |
| Archive: | | It is strongly recommended that all documents are converted to HTML file format so the documents can be guaranteed to be readable in 10 and 20 years time. It is very likly that obsolete file formats such as DOC and XLS will not be readable in 10 and 20 years time. It is already the case that DOC and XLS documents are not readable on most smart phones and tablets. | | Application services can upload any HTML (or PNG) document so it can be saved and accessed using any browser on any computing device for the next 10 years. DOC and XLS documents that may hold macro viruses cannot be trusted to be uploaded - they must be saved as HTML or scanned as PNG to eliminate security threats. |
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