Let the wars begin!
Microsoft Office to go online — for free - Big Tech
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Let the wars begin!
Microsoft Office to go online — for free - Big Tech
They arent late! People who used them before will use them now. Google and the like are still working hard to grab people, but MS no matter how late still has the upper hand. This only helps them further.
operative phrase: "a version of"
It will probably force you to save your documents to windows live, not your desktop.
All your data are belong to us.
I'm guessing this will be just an online version of Wordpad and watered down spreadsheets.
All your data are belong to us.
indeed.
Why is it that I want M$ to fail so badly?
Outlook for the Web is a very mature product. Nearly has good as Outlook desktop.
Begun the Online War has.
+++++++infinity
Sort of. It seems as though Microsoft is ALWAYS late in some way any more when it comes to anything.. but you're right, they do have the upper hand as this is just giving people a way to continue (sort of) using office.
Eh, I got Office 2007 Enterprise through work for just $10 because of their deal with M$ gives employees discounts on certain products. I can't imagine you'll get very good performance using it web-based but this is interesting...