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You pay a $10 a month fee to have Microsoft control your access to your own documents. While I have not used it, I can not imagine being able to do anything on a mobile phone via the web that would be worth the price. And don't even think of trying to install it on a tablet, you are not allowed. Microsoft probably thinks that a person with a tablet might actually expect to be able to do something with it, and wanting money for nothing they thought it easier to just deny tablets. Like that's really going to make me want to buy one of their tablets. Dream On!

Requirements:
* A qualifying Office 365 subscription is required to use this app. Qualifying plans include: Office 365 Home Premium, Office 365 Small Business Premium, Office 365 Midsize Business, Office 365 Enterprise E3 and E4 (Enterprise and Government), Office 365 Education A3 and A4, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 University, and Office 365 trial subscriptions
NOTE: If you don’t have an Office 365 subscription, you can buy Office 365 Home Premium from http://www.office.com./ With Office 365 Home Premium, you also get the latest version of Office for up to 5 PCs, Macs, and Windows tablets - and an additional 20 GB of SkyDrive cloud storage and Skype world minutes***.

* Requires a phone running Android OS 4.0 or later.

* Microsoft Office 2013 on a PC is needed for features like recent documents and resume reading.
**Office 365 account and setup necessary. Data connection required. Storage limits and carrier fees apply.

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft_office_365_blog/archive/2012/06/14/office-365-work-offline.aspx

There is absolutely nothing in the NYTimes story that points to any new development that justifies the headline.

600,000 systems in the Veteran's Administration are being moved to Office 365 For Government.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Chooses Office 365 for its 600,000 Employees

Google touted its ISO 27001 certification for Google Apps for Business last week, which Office 365 for Government also qualifies for. Just like its predecessor, the Business Productivity Online Suite Federal, Microsoft's new service also supports a plethora of other certifications, including SAS70 Type II, the US Health Insurance Portability, Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the US Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Microsoft also plans to support Criminal Justice Information Security policies soon. The service will soon offer support for IPv6 as well.

The major difference between Microsoft's enterprise solution and this government cloud is that the government data lives on its own segregated infrastructure. Besides this --- and the additional certifications --- Microsoft's government solution includes virtually the same services as the enterprise version, including Exchange Online, Lync Online, SharePoint Online and Office Professional Plus. Given that Microsoft's enterprise solution is also now FISMA certified, this new service is mainly meant for agencies that have requirements beyond this certification.

Microsoft Launches Office 365 For Government

meanwhile somewhere in redmoon, a chair flies through the air.

IN THE NEWS

AT&T Launches Microsoft Office 365 for Midsize Businesses

EPA Subscribing To Microsoft's Office 365 Cloud Apps For 25,000 Employees

HP, Microsoft Office 365 Modernize Department of Veteran Affairs [600,000 Employees]

Announcing Office 365 for Government: A US Government Community Cloud

Microsoft Office for iOS, Android to have Office 365 subscription tie-in: Report

Windows RT comes with MS office. It is already included.

No it comes with a crippled Office experience. http://blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2012/10/23/office-for-windows-rt.aspx "Student 2013 RT provides a complete Office experience and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote."

WinRT email is still limited.
"Certain email sending features, since Windows RT does not support Outlook or other desktop mail applications (opening a mail app, such as the mail app that comes with Windows RT devices, and inserting your Office content works fine)"
http://blogs.office.com/b/office-next/archive/2012/09/13/building-office-for-windows-rt.aspx

Why don't you think a much lower resolution screen is important? Probably more important for consumers wanting to play games & watch movies in hi-def.

SurfaceRT has things that your company won't like.

1. No AD.
2. No GPOs.
3. No backwards compatibility.
4. Limited email functionality.
http://techpinions.com/windows-8-tablets-and-email-a-disaster-in-the-making/10360
5. Slightly limited Office functionality. (Scroll down a ways, they buried it)
http://blogs.office.com/b/office-next/archive/2012/09/13/building-office-for-windows-rt.aspx

Trialware is great and all, but I'd hardly call it a feature if you have to pay for the 'upgrade'

From the MS "Office Next" blog:

Getting Office Home & Student 2013 RT

Office Home & Student 2013 RT is only available on Windows RT devices and is not sold standalone. The Windows RT devices available at Windows RT General Availability will include preview editions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. After the final edition of Office Home & Student 2013 RT is released in a customer's language, their Windows RT device will be automatically updated with the final edition for free via Windows Update (Wi-Fi connection required). Customers can expect to get these updates starting in early November through January depending on their language. We'll publish the specific update schedule on October 26 on the Office blog.

Office Next

Word 2010 has this feature. It is called Shrink To Fit. http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2010/09/10/shrink-to-fit-in-word.aspx

There is an alternative to Exchange, actually it is already used by 350.000 members in europe and accessilbe in the USA on http://www.office.com/. Developped since 1998 in Belgium this web application integrate webmail (with filters, fax/SMS integration), group calendaring (with killing features like display common available time slot in a group, full inviting system with response tracking, iCal export, SMS reminders, ...), document sharing (with webDAV access), address book (with PDF printing, group sharing of contact, vCard export, ...), todos, wikis, notes, chat, forum. Web interface, Pocket PC web interface, WAP interface, ... See http://www.contactoffice.com/ for more information. ContactOffice runs as an ASP with both free (limited) and subscription model (several plans). Jut try it ;-)

As long as they have a valid reason for their net losses - advertising, promotion, etc, as opposed to frittering money away on lavish "office space," cool knick-knacks for employees - t-shirts,mugs and other junk emblazoned with the Vonage logo, I still think they still have a chance. I once worked for a company who moved their offices into the former offices of office.com - (a dot-com bust) there had to be tons of junk with the office.com logo on everything - plus a video conferencing room we dubbed "the bridge," as in the bridge from Star Trek - very cool and very expensive and very unnecessary.

Unless you are techie or at least a little techie, the average consumer doesn't yet know about VOIP. So Vonage is trying to increase public awareness of the concept. I think they have to hit hard on the cost-savings - my land-line phone bill with Verizon was $75.00 USD per month - Vonage costs me only $15.00 USD per month. It's a no-brainer.

I'd hate to see them crushed by the telcos as they try to recapture their former customers - if this does happen - I'd drop VOIP and just use my cell phone - a lot of people have already done so.

You may want to consider an 'S' Corp or an LLC, there's a decent article at Office.com

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you are not what you own

You may want to consider an 'S' Corp or an LLC, there's a decent article at Office.com

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you are not what you own

Here are a few things I found while reading about this a few months ago. What's interesting is this stuff is already in prototype in China and some other medical institutions. enjoy!

http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/24/robot.heart.s urgery.ap/
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/regionalnews/eastas ia/china-15-11-00_01.htm
http://www.abcnews.go.com/local/wabc/oncall/40340_ 7252000.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_69581.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2000/0 7/24/newscolumn1.html
http://www.office.com/global/0,2724,61-17731,FF.ht ml
http://dross38040.users2.50megs.com/page28.html

I'm always glad to see progress in this field- hopefully the long-term results of this surgery will be successful. There's an interesting article I read a few months ago on the successful cross-species transplant of Schwann cells from a pig to a mouse- check it out here.
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Here's my solution to the "different email" problem.

First off, you@yahoo.com looks pretty fishy for a nice, reputable looking site. What, you mean you use a free web email account even though you have a spiffy, .com site? Here's how I'd fix it.

Option 1- Make sure your host will delegate subdomains for you at no charge. It's a piece of cake for them to do, and you're already giving them your business. Make a subdomain mail.yourdomain.com and have that point to a different mail server than your hosts'. The bad part of this is that it still will rely on your ISPs dns servers, but it won't rely on their email servers.

Option 2- Forward your emails out of their system to another account you have. paolo@ideafuture.com forwards to my regular email, so nothing sits on my host's email servers. The advantage to this is you can assign a second or third dns server to your domain and have a semblance of redundancy.

These are not foolproof suggestions by any means. The only way to have control over your site is to colocate with a good provider. Check out the company and the facilities (in person) beforehand. Office.com has a nice service when you sign up where you can look up company information based on name, city, and state. There are quite a few webhosting-type businesses in there. Also, I know someone who has had excellent reliability with colocatiing at Verio, on a Linux box no less. 255 days of uptime and counting, and pretty good rates.