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Microsoft Renovates Office Suite as a Web Service

Posted by michael on from the you-will-be-assimilated dept.

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"."

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  1. heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pretty soon, Office will look like Lotus Notes.

  2. Yippie--colleagues can add malapropisms to my work by sandbagger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh joy.

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  3. Oh good! by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  4. Hybrid by Zorilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh great, the two biggest nightmares that exist in the Slashdot crowd are about to combine: Clippy and ActiveX.

    AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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    1. Re:Hybrid by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny
      Umm, Clippy is ActiveX. Do a search on Microsoft Agent. You're EULA'ed against using Clippy outside of Office, but it's easy to use him in programs, web pages, HTML email .. I haven't tested to see if Clippy can be launched on a remote machine via the DCOM hole.

      Oh. Sorry. Breath into this paper-bag for a while.

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  5. Re:Microsoft is INOVATING again... by cbrocious · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, you'll call it inovating, they'll call it innovating :)

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  6. Shhhhh, don't nobody tell MS.... by 3seas · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... 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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  7. Re:Much needed by Anonymous+Writer · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  8. Re:Much needed by Dwonis · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do *you* think will happen if all your data is put on an IIS server?