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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. Not what, but who. by Erris · · Score: -1, Troll

    The question really is, who wants to run M$ Office on their iPhone? They need an online version to stem losses to Google Docs at Universities, but who's really going to take the bait? Knowing M$, this is going to depend on some special kind of download, Silverblight and not work very well, so it's still going to be easier to use Google Docs and Open Office. Thanks to ODF, these two things already work together. M$ Office is the odd man out.

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  2. Silverblight and Mono. by twitter · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good thing it's going to run like crap. The last thing the world needs is newbies demanding Silverblight and Mono, so that Steve Ballmer can point to it and say, "See, the dirty hippies really do need us and my patent claims on the kernel are valid. Pay your license fee now." M$'s monopoly trash might reinforce itself if they implemented it with reasonable standards. Their insistence on booby trapped code will always pull performance down. iPhone and GNU/Linux are not going to help M$ maintain their 25 year old file format lockin and "cash cow".

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    1. Re:Silverblight and Mono. by Vexorian · · Score: -1, Troll

      OH no! Accounts agree on slashdot! Could you please stop with your twitter conspiracy theories? It is certainly a shame a moron with mod points was dumb enough to mod you up. But that still makes your posts are way too annoying, we are getting fed up of your annoying twitter obsession, your spam is much worse than twitter's, thanks.

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    2. Re:Silverblight and Mono. by Vexorian · · Score: -1, Troll

      I mean my god!? This really makes you lose faith in slashdot's system, apparently enough morons got mod points today to give this conspiracy theorist spammer a +5 informative... Fuck! Yes that's right and all he did was freaking off-topic spam and a personal attack...

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      Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
  3. Re:In the darkness bind them by iCharles · · Score: 1, Troll

    What! Rich Stallman is against something that he didn't personally conceive of and name? I can't believe it! He is usually an open-minded individual, willing to foster and encourage new concepts, and never one for not-invented-here syndrom!

  4. Frdist 5top by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    gone Rjomeo and the longest or

  5. Re:In the darkness bind them by Vexorian · · Score: 0, Troll

    The fuck? Who modded this idiot up?

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    Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
  6. Re:make light weight software all the time! by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 0, Troll

    He said "professional," not "freetard."

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