Microsoft moving Office 2010 online

[rpm]

Microsoft moving Office 2010 online (http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/8787.html)

Microsoft says the 2010 version of its popular Office software will feature online collaboration as the technology giant duels 'in the cloud' with Internet titan Google.

[yavahn]

Are there no other players in this game?:erm:

[McT]

Are there no other players in this game?:erm:

None that I know of with same capabilities as M$' Office product. Most - if not all - corporates use it and it makes it just too d@mn difficult to send documents which aren't in Office's format.

That said, most, including my company, still use Office 2003. It becomes way too expensive to upgrade 1000's of users every time a new release comes out. Anyway, if you send a 2007 document to a 2003 user, they send it back as unrecognisable.

:)

[krycor]

pdf printing/save as ftw! Iprefer gdocs except for the 1 blinding factor.. there is no clearly defined page area which sucks for larger docs and sorting out where images go

[Slootvreter]

That said, most, including my company, still use Office 2003. It becomes way too expensive to upgrade 1000's of users every time a new release comes out. Anyway, if you send a 2007 document to a 2003 user, they send it back as unrecognisable.

:)

Use the Office Compatibility pack (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en), a free download. ;)

[LiamRG]

Nice idea but pointless if these applications eat all of my bandwidth just to open, save and close.

Imagine working on a 8MB spreadsheet.

[AcidRaZor]

Lemme guess, several hundred security patches for your browsers and it would still only work on IE based browsers. Oh, not to mention, you have to have Silverlight. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thanks

[AcidRaZor]

Oh and don't be fooled, you will pay through your nose for these "features" on a per seat per processor per megabyte license structure

[PeterCH]

None that I know of with same capabilities as M$' Office product. Most - if not all - corporates use it and it makes it just too d@mn difficult to send documents which aren't in Office's format.

That said, most, including my company, still use Office 2003. It becomes way too expensive to upgrade 1000's of users every time a new release comes out. Anyway, if you send a 2007 document to a 2003 user, they send it back as unrecognisable.

:)

Speaking for Word documents: sending them as PDF is ideal. PDF at least keeps its formatting, while different versions of Word mangle it in DOC or DOCX.

There is an addon from MS which allows Office 2003 to read Office 2007 format, but ideally - send as PDF.

[Aqua_lung]

Lemme guess, several hundred security patches for your browsers and it would still only work on IE based browsers. Oh, not to mention, you have to have Silverlight. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thanks

Yah silverlight and Flash are good for now but will just make things worse for web standards, Html5 will allow a rich media experience with no need for plugins, but Microsoft will obviously stall its progress by slowly adopting HTML5 for IE.

[murraybiscuit]

The question is whether gdocs will suddenly gain credibility with MS sysadmins and company tech execs who thought it was a nice toy in the past, but not worth using because they 'trust' desktop apps more. But wait... the one is free and the other has restrictive licensing costs... now we really have a dilemma :)

What about gears? that's where ms will attack next, with an offline caching system in IE 9 called microsoft cogs. Any votes on a name?

I agree with the sentiment that it's not always feasible in SA with our bandwidth the way it is. Especially when your dear colleague adds uncompressed video and 300dpi scans to the presentation to make it pretty.

I guess software is essentially going to end up with browser wars rather than with operating systems. And we all know IE is losing the battle there...

[murraybiscuit]

That said, most, including my company, still use Office 2003. It becomes way too expensive to upgrade 1000's of users every time a new release comes out. Anyway, if you send a 2007 document to a 2003 user, they send it back as unrecognisable.
:)

... and let's not get started on that amazing counter-UI "feature", the "ribbon" :sick:

[The_Librarian]

Nice idea but pointless if these applications eat all of my bandwidth just to open, save and close.

Imagine working on a 8MB spreadsheet.

QFT

[The_Librarian]

Lemme guess, several hundred security patches for your browsers and it would still only work on IE based browsers. Oh, not to mention, you have to have Silverlight. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thanks

Added to that the recent ActiveX vulnerability.

What are M$ thinking? :rolleyes:

Nah, I'll download OpenOffice (at 250Mb) and use it instead of M$ Office...

I hate M$ Office and prefer to use OpenOffice.

That ribbon feature... :sick:

[DJNgoma]

Added to that the recent ActiveX vulnerability.

What are M$ thinking? :rolleyes:

Nah, I'll download OpenOffice (at 250Mb) and use it instead of M$ Office...

I hate M$ Office and prefer to use OpenOffice.

That ribbon feature... :sick:

So I'm guessing Windows 7's Paint and Wordpad are out of the Q?

[bwana]

Cloud computing in SA? They cant be cirrus . . .