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Microsoft Renovates Office Suite as a Web Service
foobsr writes "According to an article in EcommerceTimes, Microsoft is trying to migrate Office from a product to an online service with a focus on automating collaborative work. Quote: 'Making collaboration faster, easier and more efficient will be the next revolution in worker productivity, and we want to be in the forefront,' said Peter Rinearson, vice president for new business development in Microsoft's information worker group"."
stox stomped on his brain and spewed: "How many times have Microsoft internet based services been down for extended periods? How many billions would such an outage cost, in worker productivity, if office was provided a a web service? The implications are downright scary."
yeah, the implication is that you're a fuckin moron! you fucking realize that web services run on local networks, don't you? or do you still think this whole intarweb thang's run by darpa?
- What the US government has to say about MS IE and its terrible security.
- Proof that MS Windows is terribly insecure compared to Linux. Linux is more secure, more stable, and faster than Ms Windows.
- Learn about Microsoft's lies and the real 'Total Cost of Ownership' (TCO) statistics. Linux is much cheaper to install and run then MS Windows.
How much more proof do you need to stop using Windows and install Linux?Microsoft is responsible for all the bad software on the internet. Without the Windows OS, there wouldn't be so many viruses, worms, trijans, etc. bouncing around the internet.
It would seem that CVS and a number of other content versioning systems already do much of what they are talking about with web services. A version of say, Word, will still reside on the desktop but will interface with some sort of content management software via SOAP. Merge changes occurs, a version is recorded with datetime stamp (from server) and author, and everything/everyone is happy!
Mozilla and firefox are the exception, they're just fscking awesome.
Although they still don't compare to Opera, a closed-source browser.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
What's even more amusing is that this behavior exactly mimicks that of the Billy-G boys, whose complete and utter devotion to Gates-As-God and Microsoft as His Church is nothing short of nauseating. If Bill whipped out his tiny pecker at a convention these morons would line up in droves for the opportunity to give him a blow job.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
But the great thing about having maxed karma is that I can drive the shills crazy by doing this:
"What's even more amusing is that this behavior exactly mimicks that of the Billy-G boys, whose complete and utter devotion to Gates-As-God and Microsoft as His Church is nothing short of nauseating. If Bill whipped out his tiny pecker at a convention these morons would line up in droves for the opportunity to give him a blow job."
You see, the loser geek who modded me down the first time (most likely one of the little boys who dreams about sucking Bill's dick) has probably already used up his mod points. Which means that *another* little loser geek has to mod *this* post down and waste his points; and since I'm maxed out, I can do this about 30 times before I lose my automatic '2' modifier.
Unless, of course, the little loser geek is one of Slashdot's so-called 'editors'. But at least I know at the end of the day, no matter how many times I'm modded down by an 'editor', at least I can bloody well SPELL.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?