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

Posted by timothy on from the do-is-a-flexible-verb dept.

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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  1. It's official: Internet Explorer != The Internet by z0ink · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  2. Re:Silverblight and Mono. by Facetious · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's obvious the poor guy suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, you insensitive clod!

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  3. Re:Silverblight and Mono. by Tawnos · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's obvious the poor guy suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder, you insensitive clod!

  4. Re:Silverblight and Mono. by fireman+sam · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

    *THREAD TERMINATED*

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