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Microsoft Announces Web-Based Office365

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the case-of-the-me-toos dept.

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."

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  1. Its website by neo00 · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://office365.microsoft.com/

    1. Re:Its website by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      https://docs.google.com/

  2. Re:"Best with IE" or not? by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    does anyone know if Office365 "works best" with IE or is it browser-agnostic?

    If you run it on anything other than IE, it will take 365 days to load. Hence, the name.
       

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    Table-ized A.I.
  3. Server Error in '/' Application. by vlueboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ouch. That link is slashdotted or something, so all we got is that error.
    Which was great, decent reminder that MS hosting all your office documents on the cloud reduces your company's effective ownership of the files. One day IT blocks the domain inadvertently, or it gets DDoS'd by anonymous, or the local spyware kills it in your hostfile, or all the phones and internet go down at the company because of a cut cable... so then what do the managers do to access their files?

    Cloud indeed.