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Microsoft Announces Web-Based Office365
suraj.sun writes "Aiming to bolster its hosted software for businesses, Microsoft announced today that it is adding Web-based versions of Office to its collection of hosted software for business, Office365. It will also offer traditional Office as a subscription-based service. Microsoft is pricing the service as low as $6 per user per month, though that version includes only the Web-based versions of Office."
No, it just means that it doesn't work on leap years.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I assume the next version will be Office 366. How long have I been asleep?
Well, it is really a bad name per my understanding.
To keep up with the trend, they should try "iOffice", "FaceOffice",
^(oo)^pig~
I misread the title as "Office386", and was thinking, "Boy, Microsoft really is falling behind the curve".
Table-ized A.I.
https://docs.google.com/
With even a few thousand people running this, I predict it will suck up more bandwidth than P2P ever did, and it will blue screen the 'net at least a few times per day.
Gates: "365 days a year otta be enough for anybody."
Table-ized A.I.
No, it just means that it doesn't work on leap years.
Sort of like the PS3?
If you run it on anything other than IE, it will take 365 days to load. Hence, the name.
Table-ized A.I.
Imagine the board decision meeting.
... which are alive ... eh lets name it "Live ........
Seattle moderator: Right, we wanna shov... sell our Office sofware [sic.] to the wider public and we need a name. You John?
John: Well, how's about we name it Office %VERSION%++
SM: Very good indeed, John... You Mark?
Mark: It's for the people
(Several hours pass)
SM: (Yelling) Oh for god's sake, we can't name everything 360, can we!
Some nobody: (Very meek voice) 365 maybe? For the year, you know? OK, I'll get my coat.
(Several more hours pass)
SM: (Desperate) OK, 365 it is.
Another nobody: (Very softly) And what about leap years?.
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
They're going to be so screwed when the service goes down for an entire day every four years. Ah, but then they'll introduce Office365+.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
All you need to do is install this 1.2 GB active x control. Or you can opt for the 1.6 GB active x professional version that includes "web bob" and "clippy".
Got Code?
There are a few types of programs I would expect to lose functionality when I lose internet access. MMO games, an internet browser, email.
There are some I would expect to always be functional regardless of internet connection. Media players, single-player games, and office suites are some examples.
You must be part of my generation of older computer users who still remember what it's like to not have always-on, high-speed broadband access streaming everywhere.
I guess my point here is there's no point in worrying about the "what-ifs" when you lose internet access, because for todays generation of internet addicts who are tethered online with no less than three devices within 17.5 meters of their body at all times, the answer to your question is very simple; nothing will get done. At all. It'll be mass hysteria in the office when users realize they're disconnected from Facebook and Twitter for more than 34 seconds.
Nothing available with Linux rivals the functionality of Exchange.
This brings up something I've been wondering for awhile: What moron killed Works, and why? Yeah I hated the Works file format as much as the next guy, but it was a great way for them to push product to the Walmart crowd and OEMs. If anybody there had a brain they'd take Word, Powerpoint, and Maybe OneNote, and package that as "MSFT Office Home" and push that in the low end market and to OEMs instead of more "Web 2.0" crap. Lets be honest folks, this is probably gonna bomb, and bomb hard. Those that need MS Office are probably just gonna pick up a retail edition, and those in the low end without Works being supplied by OEMs is probably gonna end up with Open Office. from a company standpoint this is just further proof in my opinion that Ballmer is to MSFT what the Pepsi guy was to Apple and needs a good firing.
And slightly OT, but can we change the "Bill Gates Borg" icon please? yes Bill was good at the "evil Nerd Genius" thing, but has been gone for ages. I would like to propose a BETTER icon, which I bet most here would agree is a better description of MSFT currently: Steve Ballmer with his tongue sticking out with a propeller beanie and a "I heart Apple!" T-shirt. This would better describe the current direction (which is pretty much "We can be as cool and hip as Apple! Yes we can! Yes we really can! STOP LAUGHING AT ME"!) and the "me too!" attitude at MSFT, not to mention the piss poor image the CEO brings to the table, better than the MSFT Gates Borg. Hell at least let the guys at /. vote in a poll on it! Who's with me? Down with Gates Borg, up with Ballmer Beanie!
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.