Microsoft's Office Web Will Do iPhone, Linux, Mac

CWmike writes "Gregg Keizer reports Microsoft has clarified that its upcoming Office Web service will be available to users running Mac OS X and Linux, as well as from Apple's iPhone. The key to this cross platform-friendliness: Office Web will run in Firefox and Safari browsers, in addition to IE. Introduced last month, Office Web is a lightweight version of its Office suite that runs as an online service. I think it's time for Google to embrace OpenOffice.org to take on Microsoft head-on, as CW blogger Preston Gralla has argued for and described how to go about it."

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Office Web is a 'lightweight' version of Office

[bugeaterr]

Kinda like a deep-fried stick of butter is a "lightweight" version of two deep-fried sticks of butter.

Guide To The Barack Obongo Presidency

[Anonymous Coward]

Congratulations on your purchase of a brand new nigger! If handled properly, your apeman will give years of valuable, if reluctant, service.

INSTALLING YOUR NIGGER.
You should install your nigger differently according to whether you have purchased the field or house model. Field niggers work best in a serial configuration, i.e. chained together. Chain your nigger to another nigger immediately after unpacking it, and don't even think about taking that chain off, ever. Many niggers start singing as soon as you put a chain on them. This habit can usually be thrashed out of them if nipped in the bud. House niggers work best as standalone units, but should be hobbled or hamstrung to prevent attempts at escape. At this stage, your nigger can also be given a name. Most owners use the same names over and over, since niggers become confused by too much data. Rufus, Rastus, Remus, Toby, Carslisle, Carlton, Hey-You!-Yes-you!, Yeller, Blackstar, and Sambo are all effective names for your new buck nigger. If your nigger is a ho, it should be called Latrelle, L'Tanya, or Jemima. Some owners call their nigger hoes Latrine for a joke. Pearl, Blossom, and Ivory are also righteous names for nigger hoes. These names go straight over your nigger's head, by the way.

CONFIGURING YOUR NIGGER
Owing to a design error, your nigger comes equipped with a tongue and vocal chords. Most niggers can master only a few basic human phrases with this apparatus - "muh dick" being the most popular. However, others make barking, yelping, yapping noises and appear to be in some pain, so you should probably call a vet and have him remove your nigger's tongue. Once de-tongued your nigger will be a lot happier - at least, you won't hear it complaining anywhere near as much. Niggers have nothing interesting to say, anyway. Many owners also castrate their niggers for health reasons (yours, mine, and that of women, not the nigger's). This is strongly recommended, and frankly, it's a mystery why this is not done on the boat

HOUSING YOUR NIGGER.
Your nigger can be accommodated in cages with stout iron bars. Make sure, however, that the bars are wide enough to push pieces of nigger food through. The rule of thumb is, four niggers per square yard of cage. So a fifteen foot by thirty foot nigger cage can accommodate two hundred niggers. You can site a nigger cage anywhere, even on soft ground. Don't worry about your nigger fashioning makeshift shovels out of odd pieces of wood and digging an escape tunnel under the bars of the cage. Niggers never invented the shovel before and they're not about to now. In any case, your nigger is certainly too lazy to attempt escape. As long as the free food holds out, your nigger is living better than it did in Africa, so it will stay put. Buck niggers and hoe niggers can be safely accommodated in the same cage, as bucks never attempt sex with black hoes.

FEEDING YOUR NIGGER.
Your Nigger likes fried chicken, corn bread, and watermelon. You should therefore give it none of these things because its lazy ass almost certainly doesn't deserve it. Instead, feed it on porridge with salt, and creek water. Your nigger will supplement its diet with whatever it finds in the fields, other niggers, etc. Experienced nigger owners sometimes push watermelon slices through the bars of the nigger cage at the end of the day as a treat, but only if all niggers have worked well and nothing has been stolen that day. Mike of the Old Ranch Plantation reports that this last one is a killer, since all niggers steal something almost every single day of their lives. He reports he doesn't have to spend much on free watermelon for his niggers as a result. You should never allow your nigger meal breaks while at work, since if it stops work for more than ten minutes it will need to be retrained. You would be surprised how long it takes to teach a nigger to pick cotton. You really would. Coffee beans? Don't ask. You have no idea.

MAKING YOUR NIGGER WORK.
Niggers are very, very averse to work of any kind. The nigger's most

Re:Depends....

[Afforess]

Google allows you to upload/open Open Office Documents, will M$ word do that?

Re:The real key is AJAX

[jamstar7]

Yeah, I really don't understand why people complain about MS Office when Open Office runs like a turd MS Office does not.

Back in the Stone Age, when Win98 was coming out, M$ decided to sell developer's licenses for $20K per. What you got for that 20K was info on two, count 'em, two system calls, one of which was for the keyboard interrupt, and an admonishment from M$ to not write your apps to the hardware anymore, write them to the OS. Of course, M$ had their inhouse people write to the iron, the undocumented hooks to the OS, and everywhere they could to save some clock cycles. End result, M$ software ran faster, was lighter, etc. At that time, Office used the renderer from Windows Explorer (as did IE, and just about everything else M$ put out with a house brand on it), while Word Perfect had to include its own renderer, print drivers, ad nauseum. If you wanted performance, you hauled out the Ralf Brown interrupt list, and coded some assembly to handle the interrupts directly to the OS & drivers.

Office still writes to undocumented system calls & interrupts, while 3rd party apps don't. And you wonder why OO is a 'turd' while Office isn't?

Re:Silverblight and Mono.

[Vexorian]

Let me say this again: Who the fuck cares? Yes, really. You keep spamming and spamming about this huge twitter conspiracy... And well all you spammers worry and agree so much on this that you are probably the same guy or something... The guy already has -1 karma, so where's the need to harass him over and over and over and over again? I guess you guys are just karma whores that want to get easy informative mods or MS fan boys that love the stupid chance for an ad hominem, but really, it is boring the hell out of people to see such obvious posts with points so freaking modded up.

That guy up there deserves an off-topic or redundant or something like that so it doesn't waste our time. Instead he gets +5 interesting, that's the problem with slashdot it randomly gives mod points to utter morons.