Microsoft Corporation(NASDAQ:MSFT_ has said that it is capable of upgrading its Office 2013 suite up to four times a year, benefiting those customers who have switched over to the subscription plan.
This year Microsoft had introduced the software-by-subscription plan for customers who did not want to go in for the traditional perpetual licensing model.
Traditionally Microsoft has stuck to a more measured updates to its office suites, where it is updates every three years.
Kurt DelBene, who heads the Windows Group, said that faster pace of changes would be implemented in Office-by-subscription, which was hinted at when it released Office 365 Home Premium.
“We already have the mechanisms in place to update the [Office 365] service on a quarterly basis,” said DelBene at a technology conference hosted by Morgan Stanley.
“With the client subscription…we’ll have the ability to do that with client business as well, the desktop version of Office.”
The quarterly update schedule has been followed for Office 365’s cloud-based services, including changes to hosted versions of SharePoint or Exchange or Lync, or as the case last October, updates to the Web app versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Analysts however ere a bt sceptical about the company’s ability to implement the update promises immediately and said that it looked like the company was talking more in terms of attaining a goal that it was working towards.
There are still no details as to what the updates will contain and experts speculated that if the changes do come frequently, by necessity they would be minor, with a feature here, a tweaked tool there.
The current form of updates – every three years – involves an entire upheaval of the Office Suite with major changes being made to them. However, maybe quarterly updates might also work as well.