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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."
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaa.
That's a funny joke.
Oh Microsoft. You're so funny.
Hahahahahaha.
Compatability with non-Vista, non-Internet Explorer user experiences?
Oh jeeze. This ought to be interesting.
At first they create something that is accesible by everyone. Then, when everyone is locked in product, they will do the same thing with Hotmail: sniff web agents and deny acces to everyone running Linux. When this happens, people will start to use fake user agents. After their "switch to Windows" attempt has failed, Microshit will 'evolve' MS Office for Web(TM) with releasing a newer version with 'extended capabilities' that requires the latest IE rendering crap on order to properly view the 'web app'. Then everyone will start installing the latest IE with Wine. When that happens they will release OOXML2(R)(TM)(c) which is a proprietary web format that only works with the latest IE, but hey, if you want an open standard, then why don't you save your documents in OOXML1?/sarcasm.
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Sorry Microsoft. You can the offer openid. You can provide specs to samba and mono. You can deliver free cross platform software (Office Live).
But you'll never win slashdot's heart. Slashdot permanently hates you. Stop trying. Its a double-standard-irrational-childish-stupid kinda hate, but its double-standard-irrational-childish-stupid hate regardless.
Now, if Google did this same thing, well, they'd be treated like a god. Like when Google offered OpenID and they were applaused -- the day after You guys did it and you were hated on.
It would just be a case of implimenting X11 server protocol or a reasonable subset of it in Java or Javascript, then you could run any X11 compliant app in a browser that can jupport it.
How is this even newsworthy? So ... Microsoft gets extra credit for doing what _should_ be done with web applications? Is it that or are we all just impressed it's not Silverlight w/ DRM and a paperclip that wants to spy on you and send all your personal details back to Redmond.
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It's obvious the poor guy suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, you insensitive clod!
Let us not become the evil that we deplore.
OK then, emacs...
Wait, never mind. He said "light weight"
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Can you please use a few more dollar signs when you post? Right now you're at the point where I simply dismiss whatever you're saying. But verily, if you use a few dozen more, I'll start to think you're just disabled and take your opinion seriously in the name of equality and progress.
It's obvious the poor guy suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, you insensitive clod!
Someone has to say them, so here we go:
I for one welcome our twitter responding overlords.
In soviet russia, twitter responds to you.
1. twitter
2. ???
3. Profit
Imagine a beowulf cluster of twitters
Yes, but can twitter run linux
Oh, and don't forget the Nazis.
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You think access is bad? Have you _seen_ what some people do with excel?