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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"."
Pretty soon, Office will look like Lotus Notes.
Oh joy.
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So now you don't have to worry about skript kiddies making your computer go "beep beep" and deleting like HALF of your report.
Now it will be deleted every 5 minutes and the save-as function won't work. But that's a feature.
Inovation!
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Oh great, the two biggest nightmares that exist in the Slashdot crowd are about to combine: Clippy and ActiveX.
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
No, you'll call it inovating, they'll call it innovating :)
Disconnect and self-destruct, one bullet at a time.
...and handles images well.
Yep, that's Word, all right! Latest version of Word XP at the office, trying to import a large (>1Mbyte) jpg file... crash! After crunching it to ~1/4 Mbyte, no crash, but it prints so dark that no details can be seen in the graphic after printing.
Fuck 'em, just fuck 'em!
... the idea of combining poor security with placing reliance of your business operations on the net in such manner....
Yeah its a real good Idea you have there MS..... keep up the good work...
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So does this change in Office mean M$'s VBA viruses will now run on their server instead of my workstation?
Please let a router outage determine whether or not I get any memos written!
Now, instead of accomplishing things, workers can have interminable interactive discussions over the most incredible minutia with their bosses.
If you thought clippy was annoying, just wait until MS Office allows your boss to pop up in a little window on the screen and interrupt whenever you're in the middle of something.
Sounds like this combines the productivity of meetings with the reliability and security of Microsoft applications. What's not to love?
Ignorance is the root of all evil.
...writing a resume. Would you like to: (a) be sacked for feeling up the secretary, disgraced, blackballed, and probably refused dole, or (b) erase the document, grovel to my office, and accept a pay cut?
The real reason Office will be hosted online, is that Longhorn will require so much harddrive space to install, that you won't have room for any programs of your own. If you install a bigger hard drive, the swap file will immediaetly eat it up. :)
What do *you* think will happen if all your data is put on an IIS server?
I object to (2). You gotta have all the coffee you can drink - subject that the first person to call for a bio-break terminates the meeting.
What's that exactly? An earthquake that copulates or something like if all the chinese went to bed at the same time?
Anyway, sounds fun! At least more interesting than building a house of cards.
Or, "This file is being edited by someone else for the next 62 hours, do you want to open a read-only copy?" Unfortunately, I expect the latter.
Surely they will detect Firefox and make their servers show a gif of Clippo saying...
It looks like you're not using Internet Explorer.
Would you like help with installing IE, the world's best browser, as stated by our self-funded third-party research studies?