Microsoft now offering pay-as-you-go computing in South Africa

Microsoft now offering pay-as-you-go computing in South Africa

Software giant Microsoft has now launched their subscription software service in the South Africa.

This system allows the company to offer pay-as-you-go computing system to customers in developing markets who cannot pay for the expensive software products.

The company is going to charge 199 rand for a three-month subscription to use Microsoft Office 2007.

Initial customers are going to get an extra three months for free. This offer is expected to attract a lot of customers to this new service launched by the company.

Cyril Belikoff, information worker business group executive at Microsoft South Africa spoke about this new service offering: “We need to think differently in order to address the needs of the next five billion users of computers and how we can make technology accessible to them.”

This is one major initiative step Microsoft has taken to make sure that computing and software is made available to the masses at low costs.