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By: Microsoft still a trend follower | Societrends

Microsoft still a trend follower | Societrends — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:38:11 +0000

[...] Microsoft launching a search engine (reportedly better than MSN), bringing Office to the browser, incorporating a plugin that syncs Office with your Google Docs account and reportedly offering an [...]

By: Browser Wars - Year 17 « Butch Lugrod’s Manopia

Browser Wars - Year 17 « Butch Lugrod’s Manopia — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:35:44 +0000

[...] clearly, Microsoft is moving (slowly) toward the online cloud world. Last year they announced the web version of Office. But will this development stagnate as well? There are already a number of (free!) competitors in [...]

By: Google Apps Has No Future : Techozi

Google Apps Has No Future : Techozi — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:59:23 +0000

[...] has not been sitting still. They launched Office Live Workspace in March 2008 and later in October announced Office Web apps at their professional developer conference. People have also not been shy about buying Microsoft [...]

By: the future is here [just not evenly distributed] » when the cloud transforms into universal utility computing

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:49:04 +0000

[...] Large vendors with existing market plays involving huge server farms and data centers are eagerly jumping on the bandwagon — like IBM, Google, Amazon, Sun, etc. Software vendors are touting their existing and upcoming apps as “cloud” initiatives. The previously mentioned firms, as well as Salesforce, Zimbra (now owned by Yahoo), Zoho, and a multitude of other startups are all rushing to lay claim to a piece of land in the Cloud Gold Rush. Even Microsoft, notoriously late to the web party, instead relying on its stalwart cash cows of Windows and Office, has made its own bid in the cloud wars with Mesh and announcements of a web version of Office. [...]

By: adrian

adrian — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:27:29 +0000

anyone tried Hibernater? it complements offline ms office which might actually trump gdocs too.

By: Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network!

Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network! — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:48:52 +0000

[...] software plus services strategy has clearly infiltrated Live.com as well as their approach with Office. Live.com users can now access a variety of online services like mail, calendar, photos, online [...]

By: Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network! : VCsAndAngels - Venture Capital / VCs, Angel Investors, Startup News, Etc

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:31:19 +0000

By: Everything PC » Blog Archive » Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens - Nov 1 08

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:25:54 +0000

[...] Microsoft doesn’t really have an option: Microsoft Office embraces the browser. [...]

By: IT News #1 | FABblog

IT News #1 | FABblog — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:32:41 +0000

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By: » Office en el navegador ¿una buena idea de Microsoft? | Informática Práctica |

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:42:05 +0000

[...] La historia contada originalmente en TechCrunch| Microsoft Office Embraces The Browser (Thank You Google) [...]

By: Microsoft Office embraces the browser - elearnspace

Microsoft Office embraces the browser - elearnspace — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:49:05 +0000

[...] doesn’t really have an optioin: Microsoft Office embraces the browser. I watch how my children use software. Multiple devices (ipods, laptop, desktop, mobile phones) [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:53:21 +0000

Finally, we have a service from MS that might actually trump Google. Google Docs looks like Notepad when compared to what MS Office Online might offer. People are gonna jump ship from for sure.

By: اوفيس ينضم إلى تطبيقات الانترنت | تيدوز

اوفيس ينضم إلى تطبيقات الانترنت | تيدوز — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:20:48 +0000

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By: jondough

jondough — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:54:23 +0000

To all ye “channel partners” out there:
Microsoft wants to increase Microsoft revenue and profits. Not Partner revenue and profits. Switch to opensource. That will give you a steady support income quickly. Or go over to trading UMPCs at 10% margins. Or go buy land and do some farming. With the channel out of the way, Microsoft gets more profit, customers get more profit.
Offer opensource or close down. The choice is yours.

By: jbkuppe

jbkuppe — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:38:17 +0000

As pointed out by others, these solutions still only support “dumb” offline work. What information workers want (rather than social users) is the ability to share docs, like spreadsheets, at the data level. That means make a change to cell in a spreadsheet and then have that change show up on other user’s desktops without emailing or making them view the data in a browser window. That takes a new database techology like….

By: hocteto.com » Blog Archive » el fin de una era

hocteto.com » Blog Archive » el fin de una era — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:45:42 +0000

[...] anuncia que ofrecerá versiones ligeras de Office a través del navegador. Cómo explican en el artículo de Techcrunch, esto supone renunciar a parte de los clientes que [...]

By: kfan

kfan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:38:43 +0000

If you already have your own infrastructure, then you most likely already have the ms office suite which allows “sharing” of documents over local networks. Mobility can be solved with vpn.

Point taken that both interfaces can be tightened up to make the process more user friendly.

By: kfan

kfan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:33:44 +0000

That’s big news right there. They’re giving up significant leverage of their existing office suite and are taking a huge risk trying to compete “more fairly” with all the other apps out there.

By: links for 2008-10-29 | Yostivanich.com

links for 2008-10-29 | Yostivanich.com — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:13:48 +0000

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By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:54:12 +0000

The claim that people will ditch the desktop version is rubbish. People want the security, functionality and reliability of desktop software. If people wanted it in the browser so desperately, they would have switched to GDocs/writely ages ago. They haven’t because they don’t. This is just an add on to Word. Most people and businesses will continue to use the regular version.

By: Microsoft Office Online » Um-byte

Microsoft Office Online » Um-byte — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:13:17 +0000

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By: Nici macar cei mari nu pot ramane contra curentului… » Mircea Scarlatescu

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:21:19 +0000

[...] Microsoft anunta ca va oferi si o varianta online a suitei Office, miscare care vine sa recunoasca utilitatea GoogleDocs (evident si sa o concureze). E semn ca nici macar gigantul din Redmond nu poate ramane indiferent la trendul mutarii online a documentelor, unde avantajele (e drept si provocarile) sunt multiple. Si ca sa fie tacamul complet, Office Online va folosi nu vreo tehnologie proprietara MS, ci JavaScript , iar modelul de monetizare este evident: platit pentru ads-free… (via) [...]

By: mnvamsi

mnvamsi — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:45:18 +0000

And finally Microsoft is offering word and power point like google’s spread sheets and documents..

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:04:48 +0000

The timing is not accidental. Michael Arrington is right thanking Google for it. Google Documents and Spreadsheets is a threat to Microsoft – and they have to give it a go now even as it means cannibalizing their Office cash cow. The second reason is that internet is speedy enough, and penetrated enough. The third reason is .NET/C#/Silverlight – Microsoft can now do what they could not do earlier, and Google can not do even now.

By: Browser based Microsoft Office!

Browser based Microsoft Office! — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:41:43 +0000

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