industry.bnet.com — Despite what you?ve heard, the online version of Office 2010 announced by Microsoft earlier this week won?t be free to corporate users, and isn?t a threat to the likes of Google, Adobe, or even Zoho, which sells online productivity software to small and medium-sized businesses.
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lanjackalJul 18, 2009
Buried for arguments with obvious holes:1 - None of the competition's web apps are free for enterprise users either. Exactly where the author got the idea that this would be the case is beyond me2 - Office Live has the option of being locally hosted, which would require a server anyway, as well as the collaboration underpinnings to go with. That's where the SharePoint detail comes in. It allows you to use MS Office remotely while keeping collaboration/sharing within the enterprise itself3 - "Hasn't said what it means by "lightweight"" - The screenshots show it running in Firefox. It runs in a browser. What else do you want to know? That's a dumb statement since just about every web app dev makes that claim without being taken to task for it as long as they can show the service runs in a capable browserBasically superficially the article makes sense, but it totally disintegrates under the weight of simple analysis.
Closed AccountJul 18, 2009
Yaaaaaawn. It's not even worth debating with you since every single thing you said is just plain bulls**t.
doubledownJul 18, 2009
Nothing is Free... hasn't the government taught us enough???
fknightJul 18, 2009
The author of this article, like most authors of articles bashing Microsoft, is simply trying to get hits because it is in vogue to bash Microsoft. He really either has no idea what he's talking about or he is intentionally trying to be stupid.FACT: No online office product is free for businesses. Google, for example, charges $50 per user.FACT: Unlike Google, Zoho, etc., Microsoft is offering the option to host their online office suite *in your own datacenter* if you don't want to use it hosted on *their* datacenter. That's when you start paying for Sharepoint.And to top off the bulls**t, the author has never even seen Outlook Web Access judging by his commentary on it.Article buried as stupid.
Closed AccountJul 19, 2009
Dugg article just for the comments here
lanjackalJul 19, 2009
RE: OO.o & Symphony ... did you notice I said *WEB* apps? *sigh*