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- rpi22, on 03/27/2008, -7/+35Have you ever been to Albany? It kinda sucks...
- kent1146, on 03/27/2008, -2/+28No, but it's Microsoft, so you're guarantee to get f**ked.
- davewashere, on 03/27/2008, -4/+28If it's anything like Albany, NY, this app will be bloated, drunk, and altogether miserable.
- ElbertF, on 03/27/2008, -4/+25Wasn't Google Docs a Microsoft Word imitation in the first place?
- shapovalenko, on 03/27/2008, -2/+16Nice code name from MS. Albany, hello ;)
- Earlsports, on 03/27/2008, -2/+16A whisk.
- Kamujin, on 03/27/2008, -3/+17When Microsoft borrows ideas, it's imitation.
When Google borrows ideas, it's innovation.
When Apple borrows ideas, it's invention. - Barbarino, on 03/27/2008, -5/+18Not sure how they plan on making money with office in the next 5 years. Seems like it's going bye bye. I work for a large company (fortune 1000), and we use 10% of what office is capable of, it's not that we don't know how to use it, we have no need to use it.
- sholt, on 03/27/2008, -4/+16Just be glad they didn't choose "Troy"
- ElbertF, on 03/27/2008, -1/+13OMG you figured out the algorithm.
- proverbs17, on 03/27/2008, -0/+11Or "Schenectady"
- EtherGnat, on 03/27/2008, -1/+10Nobody uses Office for more than 10 or 15% of what it is capable of, but everybody uses a different set of features. Microsoft might lose market share in the home and small business market, but I don't think it's going anywhere on the corporate desktop in the next five years.
- maninalift, on 03/27/2008, -1/+9No you whisk an egg with a whisk. Beat an egg with a fork.
- xxpor, on 03/27/2008, -2/+10does it come with a hooker?
- TimDigg, on 03/27/2008, -2/+9But does it compete with Zoho?
http://www.zoho.com/
If MS released a web based free MS Project or MS Visio
they would make a fortune....Even if it was just a bastardized MS visio that only did diagram and wouldn't convert schemes in SQL.....just a diagramming tool would be big - UnWeave, on 03/27/2008, -1/+8Why does someone always have to make this same comment. STFU, NO ONE CARES.
- Sizzor, on 03/27/2008, -3/+10If it's anything like the state government in Albany, it will only work 12 days a year and cost a fortune. High-priced hookers sold separately.
- sint4x, on 03/27/2008, -1/+7Thank you, Mr. Obvious
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -3/+9To add to ElbertF's comment, wasn't it Microsoft who invented XMLHTTPRequest (AJAX) in the first place?!
If it wasn't for MS, there would have been no GMail, Google Docs, etc. - lbmouse, on 03/27/2008, -12/+18New MS slogan - "Innovation Through Imitation"
- Midtowner, on 03/27/2008, -0/+6I've tried Google Docs. I can say that it would be an awesome app for taking class notes with if the formatting wasn't such crap.
Put in margins, outlining and an autotext feature and we're in business. - t3rmv3locity, on 03/27/2008, -0/+5Too bad they are probably going to charge 50$ a month for the service
- linagee, on 03/27/2008, -1/+6So will this.
- lazlonger, on 03/27/2008, -0/+5are you retarded? Albania and Albany...not the same thing.
- sint4x, on 03/27/2008, -2/+7Well if Microsoft is trying to replicate Google, then maybe the web will get better.
- sholt, on 03/27/2008, -1/+5Aw, c'mon! Albany's got the Egg! How can you beat the Egg?!
- blakeage, on 03/27/2008, -1/+5Zoho rules...not sure what else to say, except that I was thrilled to find that I didn't have to buy MS Excel to do my budgeting.
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4Sire, we apologize for disturbing you, Just continue your cave paintings.
- zetsurin, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4Microsoft's new slogan
"Where do you want to go yet again today?" - gthrank, on 03/27/2008, -1/+5Just "kinda"? No - Albany TRULY sucks.
- DuffyDirect, on 03/27/2008, -1/+5if its anything like albany, ny there'll be plenty of corrupt files
- bbqsalad, on 03/27/2008, -1/+5I use Google Docs, Cal, Spreadsheets and Gmail everyday.. And love them. They allow me to work on my stuff from work, home, laptop.
- Kamujin, on 03/27/2008, -1/+4Shhh, its cool to bash Microsoft don't you know? Stop telling the other side of the story. People might learn something.
- zmigliozzi, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3Picking on this a little too late.
- zetsurin, on 03/27/2008, -1/+4Hello, my name is Zetsurin> Pleased to meet you. I use google docs almost daily and think it's brilliant.
There, no longer can you claim to have never personally met anyone who like google docs. - Wartz, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3you must be new here.
- troydoogle7, on 03/27/2008, -2/+5Release free !== fortune.....
How can you make a fortune, if you release it free? Advertising, google adwords? Donationware?
Oh wait you must work for a venture cap company........want to buy some bear sterns shares? - DuffyDirect, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3yeah if youre a glutton for obnoxious people and slum lords!
- lazlonger, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3the last secretive program coming out of Albany ended up ending a Governor's career....once again Microsoft is too clever by half.
- Bicep, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Yep Google Docs Rocks, or OpenOffice.org, or Lotus Symphony, or KOffice, or even Zoho. Anything that uses an Open and REAL standard of saving documents is the one for my future. Express your documents into digital and ALWAYS de-cryptable format for FREE, that's what computing technology is all about. Down with the Microsoft tax on computer software, humans have progressed.
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -1/+3So could Linux, UNIX, mac or novel netware. But you were saying that windows 95 was the only reason internet is here. I strongly disagree on that. Please count Microsoft web servers on internet without parked domains.
- pcpimpster, on 03/27/2008, -3/+5"the internet was nothing" - wasnt Windows 95 the first OS to connect the masses to the internet... I wouldnt call that taking a "nothing" approach
- sholt, on 03/27/2008, -1/+3...though, it's hard to tell just by looking.
BA-ZING! - Billiam627, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Dugg for Capital Region refrence. Go UALBANY!!!!
- inactive, on 03/27/2008, -2/+4Yes Yes remember, But what can you do with AOL icon in any country other than US ?
- sholt, on 03/27/2008, -1/+3Dugg for spelling it right - now, can you pronounce "Rensselaer" properly?
- xxpor, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2I pronounce it "waitlist" :(
- soupnumber5, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2zoho rocks. I use ZOHO CRM and it's just a nice affordable solution vs shelling cash for Salesforce. There other office apps are nice as well. Worth checking out. If only they had ZOHO MAIL...
damn... - heavyal, on 03/27/2008, -2/+4Not to put to fine a point on it, but Microsoft's implementation was called XMLHTTP and was originally made for working with web data via Outlook 2000. The Mozilla project incorporated the first native implementation of XMLHTTPRequest into their browser (Mozila 1.0) in 2002. Since then a full standards based API has been set in place by the W3C as of 2006 though as of December 2007 the API is still not 100% complete. So yeah, MS came up with the concept but as usual it was left up to third parties to create a malleable structure that could be easily implemented across all platforms. (a lot of more interesting info can be found at the wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest)
- orb_nsc, on 03/27/2008, -3/+5I like Google products as much as anyone else, but it won't be too hard for Microsoft to be a strong competitor to Google Docs. Have you actually tried to print a document written in Google Docs? It sucks. The margins, the fonts, the whole layout just doesn't look right. I end up doing a copy/paste into MS Word and printing from there. The only real advantage to Google Docs is that you can edit a document easily from different locations (work/home/etc) and share it with others, and I'm sure Microsoft will figure that part out.
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