Microsoft extends services via web
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by sherrilynne
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At their professional developers’ conference that took place last week in Los Angeles, Microsoft revealed the many ways it intends to extend its software services via the web.
In a long expected answer to Google Apps, the folks from Redmond demonstrated, for the first time, their new Web applications for Office, which are lightweight versions of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that are used with the browser.
Now anyone can use all of the web, phone and PC versions of Office to edit and collaborate on the same document. Click here to read the rest of this Tech Talk column.
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Oh, Sherrilynne, you’re using buzzwords that hit my buttons: Live, Mesh and Office.
Finally, we’re going to get a *real* solution that companies can use without the worry of what Google are doing with their data. It might not be free, but I’d prefer it that way, I’d feel I would have some degree of ownership of the software if I paid a subscription, for example. Even better, I should get my subscription free with my licensed copy of MS Office.
MS Office is what the business world uses, and having cloud integration will be very beneficial (Ozzie is a genious – despite disenfranchising users with the ribbon interface to 2007). Office Live does documents, Mesh does collaboration and files, Live does email and XBox Live gets it all in your living room. I don’t see Google competing at all those levels. The API is open, enterprise tested and thanks to the strength of .NET developers have next to no learning curve to get started.
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