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Microsoft Launches Office 365 Cloud Suite

Posted by Unknown on from the half-the-features-but-cloud-cloud-cloud dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft took its cloud suite Office 365 out of beta today and the opinion mongers are in overdrive. Is Office 365 missing features, is it too complex, or should it be taken seriously? And how does it stack up against Google Apps?"

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  1. Dealbreaker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It can't open my old Final Cut Pro projects.

  2. Re:Not wasting my time again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    After suffering through the hell that is your post, why would I waste my time with another steaming pile of troll? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

  3. High-performance video editing by Russ1642 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I stopped reading TFA at "For instance, the Office Web Apps version of PowerPoint doesn’t have the high-performance video editing tools found in the desktop version..." They actually used High-Performance and PowerPoint in the same sentence. You've got to be kidding me.

  4. Re:Not wasting my time again by dingfelder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

    I think you meant: fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." -- george bush

  5. Re:Sharepoint 2010 - Core of the Business Web Apps by PNutts · · Score: 1, Funny

    Outlook and Exchange are actually pretty easy to get up and running...

    I'm going to grab some milk and re-read this so I can can shoot it out my nose laughing.

  6. Yee-Haw by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 1, Funny

    Screams the slack-jawed yokel with the rented backhoe, complete with fiber optic cable hunter package.