Microsoft customers who signed up to its Office Live Small Business service before February of last year will soon have to pay to renew Web domains they've acquired through the service.
On its Office Live Small Business Web site, Microsoft explained the change, saying it was to bring the company in line with competitors offering similar services.
Those competitors, according to a spokesman from Microsoft's public relations firm, include but aren't limited to domain hosters and similar small-business hosted services like Yahoo Small Business.
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