Microsoft Corp. is fighting an uphill battle getting customers to buy into its .Net vision, as well as the way of receiving software that goes along with that strategy.
The Redmond, Wash., company is encountering significant user resistance to the hosted Office Online initiative, one of the first tangible aspects of .Net. Microsoft's .Net plan is attempting to migrate software from a desktop-based focus to one that provides software services over the Internet. Office Online, launched a year ago, allows users to access Office 2000 applications as a hosted service. The company has so far given some 20 ASPs (application service providers) the right to host the software.
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