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Microsoft's Free, Online Version of Office To Premiere This Week

Posted by timothy on from the file-formats-matter dept.

walterbyrd writes "Microsoft will offer an online version of Office 2010 for free. I have to wonder, will this remain free indefinitely? Or is Microsoft just trying to firmly establish its OOXML standard, then go back to business as usual?" Probably a harder sell after Google's acquisition of DocVerse.

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  1. Re:Don't forget GUID. by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember that all Office applications embed a GUID in the document. My guess would be that the online version would as well. So your privacy is up for grabs.

    Oh joy! Does this mean I'll be able to track my documents via Facebook or will Facebook just do it for me without my knowledge?

  2. Re:Change in business model ? by biryokumaru · · Score: 3, Funny

    And at what point will there be a free windows version?

    When they can get it to run in internet explorer.

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  3. How exactly do you pitch this to management? by Colin+Smith · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about something like this?

    "Well, you see, Google got hacked, they had the code to their global authentication taken, who knows what the hackers found there and what access they've got now... So, we decided to go with Microsoft instead."

     

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  4. Re:Don't forget GUID. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does this mean I'll be able to track my documents via Facebook or will Facebook just do it for me without my knowledge?

    First one, then the other.

  5. Re:second post by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny

    suck the shit off my dick you faggot!

    You have shit on your dick? And you're calling someone else a "faggot"?

  6. Re:Is it safe? by BraksDad · · Score: 2, Funny

    I worked for a state supreme court in 1997. They wanted to archive all their docs for forever so... the converted everything to Word Perfect. UGH!

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  7. Re:Business model by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's true, so long as all you're trying to search is C:

  8. Re:Don't forget GUID. by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 3, Funny

    Remember that all Office applications embed a GUID in the document. My guess would be that the online version would as well. So your privacy is up for grabs.

    Look...

    We're talking about storing documents - as in, text, spreadsheets, etc - in "the cloud". Which is to say, the storage provider has full access to their contents.

    What. Fucking. Privacy?