With businesses looking to make savings next year, Microsoft
predicts that SMEs’ views on ownership will change in 2010, with
many leasing technology assets rather than buying them
outright.

Speaking on the Financial Mail’s Small Business Panel,
Robert Epstein, head of small business sales at Microsoft UK, said:
“As technology moves quickly and becomes more important to
business, a move to leasing could help to cut costs while ensuring
firms are still up-to-date.

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“We are already seeing this with the increase in firms turning
to cloud computing, where they rent server space rather than
install costly servers.”

Epstein added that although Microsoft had already seen greater
investment in technology by small firms and start-ups in the last
quarter of 2009, he expected that in 2010 businesses would
increasingly turn to asset finance for their investments.

Jason T Hesse

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