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Embracing and Extending Microsoft Office

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the filling-the-voids dept.

ReadWriteWeb writes "In an interview with ex-Excite founder and current JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus, Richard McManus explores the Web Office and how JotSpot aims to 'embrace and extend' some of Microsoft's office products. Kraus explains how JotSpot went about extending Excel's basic functionality in three ways: sharing spreadsheets, every row is a wiki page, and the ability to mashup data from your own hard drive with data on the Web. Although JotSpot won't challenge Microsoft's office software supremacy with a web-based office suite, expect Google to rise to the challenge of building an interconnected suite of networked office applications."

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  1. In other words... by babbling · · Score: 4, Funny

    These guys are going to make MS Office even more incompatible with other Office suites than it already is. They're probably going to try and make it at least partially incompatible with itself, too.

    This is like adding another layer of Microsoft on top of a layer of Microsoft.

  2. Embracing and Extending Microsoft Office ..... by Hellboy0101 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can we add Extinguish to that as well?

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