Microsoft plans to give its corporate customers the option of

the company's new Web-based Office 2010 offering on their own servers in order to give them more control of the product."All Office volume licensing customers will have the right to Web apps to run themselves on-premises," said Chris Capossela, senior VP for Microsoft's Business unit, in an interview. "This is a really big distinction between Microsoft and our competition," said Capossela, in a reference to rival Google.

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