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The article focuses on the increase in prices by software manufacturer, Microsoft and the impact it has on budgetary concerns and flexibility for businesses. It discusses how the rising costs of Microsoft's cloud services and 365 subscriptions are leading to frustrations among budget managers. It further emphasizes that businesses can still modernize their information technology infrastructure without relying heavily on cloud services.

A cartoon is presented about the long-term cost of cloud computing.

The article focuses on the level of pricing for new launched technology products in Great Britain including software, hardware, and cloud services. Topics include the comparison of retail prices for hardware to determine if British pay more than those in the U.S., the results of the survey which show that there are no big difference in price of software between Western nations, and the low price offering for cloud services such as Spotify.

The article focuses on the growth of the cloud computing market and its effects on the software industry in the U.S. Topics covered include the duties of a sales representative in the cloud, the approaches by big companies like SAP and Oracle to selling their software offerings for the cloud, and the trend among cloud companies towards maintaining their sales growth by reevaluating their sales models.

The article focuses on software company Microsoft's long-term plans to shift from selling boxed software to software-by-subscription. It states that Microsoft announced on its official Microsoft Office blog that the company considers subscription software-as-a-service to be the future of computer software and suggested the benefit of subscription software is that it would always be up to date. It mentions Microsoft's cloud-computing service SkyDrive and contemplates the possibility of Microsoft operating system subscriptions.

The article discusses the benefits of cloud computing for structural engineers, including working on projects with complete flexibility, improving the effectiveness of software without pricing out growing businesses, and for companies to scale up and down their system depending on computing needs. SkyCiv chief executive Sam Carigliano notes that cloud computing allows users to customize applications and access remotely stored data and services. It also mentions the costs for licensing software.

In this article, the author comments on increase in licensing complexity regarding software purchases in today's cloud-based software services and virtual environments and steps to be implemented by software companies to deal with frequent audits. Topics discussed include need to build licence management by businesses, involvement of senior management in building licence management and early start of contract negotiation with software vendors.

The article reports that the technological company Google Australia Pty. Ltd. has cut the price of its cloud computing platform. It states that the price cuts have been applied globally, with customers from Australia and New Zealand accessing the cheaper cloud offerings. It notes that the prices for the Google Compute Engine have been dropping since its launch in 2013. It mentions that the company launched the beta of its pre-emptible instances.