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Microsoft Launches Office 365 in 10 New Markets, Eyes Expansion in Nearly 100 New Markets By Next Year (venturebeat.com)
Microsoft is bringing Office 365 to 10 new markets. The company today announced that people in Bhutan, Cambodia, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Laos, Maldives, Martinique, Mozambique, Myanmar, and Vatican City can now also subscribe to its productivity suite. The company says it plans to launch Office 365 in nearly 100 more markets by next year. VentureBeat adds: It's worth underlining that Microsoft is using the word "market" and not "country" on purpose. There are 196 countries in the world today, but the company plans to launch Office 365 in "a further 97 markets over the next year." That would bring the total to 247 markets -- the extra markets are differentiated by certain cultural and language differences that require more work on Microsoft's part, even if they are part of the same geographic country.Office is one of Microsoft's biggest cash cows. The company says over 1.2 billion people worldwide use its productivity suite.
No longer the evil Borg Empire, they have more respect for the business advantages of diversity than the Republican-patterned US federal government does.
And OpenOffice/LibreOffice still sucks donkey dicks.
I realize it takes time to do translations, I've been involved in several large projects requiring it, but that's no reason to have "markets" - just release it to the world, already! In our projects we just released software updates as we added support for additional languages. Regionalized markets are the crutch of DRM and copyright solutions.
Last I looked Outlook connectivity was offline, which should be familiar to anyone who has connected Exchange and Outlook on Windows via the incantations necessary.
Exchange was never designed as a 'cloud' service for use on that scale I'm afraid and Office365 is not something I'd be using and relying on if I wanted to use Exchange. E-mail is generally too critical.
I'm not a big fan of Windows because it's not unix. But the other software is great. Nothing else even comes close.
Yes there is: database connectors - MS Office has comprehensive support.
So now instead of every organisation having its own unique single point of failure every organization that uses Office/Outlook has the same single point of failure. Just exactly how sustainable is that considering the revolving door of coders working for the boys in Redmond?
Office 365 should be called Office 363 since it's down an average of almost 2 days per year. Just sayin'...
Brad Silverberg is one of our main investors so w have to use this garbage. It sucks that we keep losing data and that Microsoft apparently doesn't care.
Seriously, why so much useless news on Slashdot these days ?
3/4 of news are about google, apple, m$ and facebook. So boring.
Yes and no.
I believe most of the time something like LibreOffice or G-Suite as they call it now is adequate. Nevertheless, Office still has a couple of things over the competition for the power users. But there's rarely ever a need for those added advantages.
If you're looking for a lot of integrations and capabilities, Open sourced LibreOffice is your go to. If you're looking for Ease-Of-Use, familiarity, and a handful of unduplicated as of yet solutions (negligible), then Office is the choice. All in all I'd agree that LibreOffice is better, especially for the price difference. But most businesses and the layperson like the familiarity and beauty of the UI of Office over LibreOffice.
... yet another subscription plan to go along with a lifetime subscription to cable t.v., statins and diabetes medication.
F.T.S.
Access is an abomination to databases. Yeah it has an easy configuration for those who create simple databases, but even MySQL will be hundreds of times better than anything that Access creates.
Will the Vatican City version support Church Latin?
> beauty of the UI of Office
Haven't opened an Office product in a decade. Are they still married to that "Ribbon"/"Who needs well-organized, intuitive menus when you can fill up the screen with a dozen huge icons and bury everything else in the hamburger menu" design philosophy?
Yep, it's a bunch of little icons and words. It's a little difficult to find things if you're not used to it, I think the icons are unnecessary.
Same here. He made us use things that don't work
How long would it take to build a short and sweet app to manage a small work group's assets? Or perhaps a small club's Sports equipment?
15 minutes in access for each.
Oh no, spend a week with MySQL and some other front end toolkit coz y'know purity over getting work done.
Those poor bastards, what did they do to deserve this? Vatican excluded, we know exactly what they did.
If more Access users would limit their scope to such a project, Access wouldn't get the hate that it does.
Microsoft is going to expand to only 100 markets?
After I finish my C++ class where the final exam keeps on disappearing and reappearing I'm going to launch my Office pi-3.1416 to 100++ markets.
This might be the worst comment section of any /. article I've read in weeks. Months? Don't mind me, just strolling through the den of asps.
Microsoft empire doesn't inspire discussion like it used to, apparently. I see this story as a potent reminder how monstrously large and influential M$ continues to be.
English might not be my first language but I only use English software. Limiting by country is stupid, I want Siri etc to be English but I'm often locked out waiting for a language I don't want.
Forza Horizon is the worst example of this, I want speed in km/h but English GPS voice and the stupid game only lets you use the Xbox global settings with no way to override so I had to settle for mp/h.