Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

On my previous post about the scalability of the "support subscription" business model, Joel Jackson said: "I’m confused Savio...what don’t you understand about a software subscription annuity model?

Subscription this, subscription that. Consumers are being nickeled and dimed to death with monthly or yearly subscriptions, but Microsoft has decided not all of its Office users want a subscription, ...

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Microsoft has been moving to a subscription model for its software for years, and other companies are following suit. Here’s what to keep in mind if you’re making a move from perpetual software to an ...

Similar to other software subscriptions, Setapp offers a variety of applications. But a few features set Setapp apart. Is this subscription service right for your business? Software developers are ...

Cisco, despite its hardware heritage, wants it to be known its future lies in software, the cloud, and subscription-based services. Company brass underlined this point repeatedly during the company’s ...

Ever since Microsoft introduced Office 365 Home Premium subscriptions in January, we’ve been wondering when Microsoft might give up on packaged versions of Office. Now it seems we have our answer. The ...

‘We are, in a sense, restructuring the contracts from perpetual to subscription. That’s why, depending on where you see it, you’ll see a slower growth at the beginning—if any—followed by a more rapid ...

Ordergroove, a tech company that powers subscriptions for brands and retailers like The Honest Company and L'Oreal, announced Thursday that it had raised $100 million in a funding round led by growth ...

Once upon a time, you bought software the way you bought a toaster. Walk into a store. Pick up a box. Hand over money. Take it home. Install the software and run it. The package was yours forever.