Microsoft Office goes online

Hi, it's pretty good, just like office , people like using things that is similar to softwares they use on their home pc's.....i must say b4 when live office web apps was release it was slow and in beta, but now it works much better...

Give it a try......
 
It is all nice, but OOo can't seem to open the resulting file. Here are the directory structure in the file, if I save a file from the Live service, and OOo as docx:
MS Office Live:
Code: 
doc
├── [Content_Types].xml
├── docProps
│** ├── app.xml
│** ├── core.xml
│** └── thumbnail.jpeg
├── _rels
└── word
    ├── document.xml
    ├── fontTable.xml
    ├── numbering.xml
    ├── _rels
    │** └── document.xml.rels
    ├── settings.xml
    ├── stylesWithEffects.xml
    ├── styles.xml
    ├── theme
    │** └── theme1.xml
    └── webSettings.xml

From OpenOffice:
Code: 
doc2
├── Configurations2
│** ├── accelerator
│** │** └── current.xml
│** ├── floater
│** ├── images
│** │** └── Bitmaps
│** ├── menubar
│** ├── popupmenu
│** ├── progressbar
│** ├── statusbar
│** └── toolbar
├── content.xml
├── META-INF
│** └── manifest.xml
├── meta.xml
├── mimetype
├── settings.xml
├── styles.xml
└── Thumbnails
    └── thumbnail.png

How can the spec be interpreted so differently?
 
Nod said:
It is all nice, but OOo can't seem to open the resulting file. Here are the directory structure in the file, if I save a file from the Live service, and OOo as docx:
MS Office Live:
Code: 
doc
├── [Content_Types].xml
├── docProps
│** ├── app.xml
│** ├── core.xml
│** └── thumbnail.jpeg
├── _rels
└── word
    ├── document.xml
    ├── fontTable.xml
    ├── numbering.xml
    ├── _rels
    │** └── document.xml.rels
    ├── settings.xml
    ├── stylesWithEffects.xml
    ├── styles.xml
    ├── theme
    │** └── theme1.xml
    └── webSettings.xml

From OpenOffice:
Code: 
doc2
├── Configurations2
│** ├── accelerator
│** │** └── current.xml
│** ├── floater
│** ├── images
│** │** └── Bitmaps
│** ├── menubar
│** ├── popupmenu
│** ├── progressbar
│** ├── statusbar
│** └── toolbar
├── content.xml
├── META-INF
│** └── manifest.xml
├── meta.xml
├── mimetype
├── settings.xml
├── styles.xml
└── Thumbnails
    └── thumbnail.png

How can the spec be interpreted so differently?
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Microsoft corrupting the specs again, I see :rolleyes:

And I won't be using Office, I'd rather use something that is open and uses open standards, not something that locks you in to a proprietary format.
 
Doesnt work on my side :( Im using Chrome.. perhaps thats why? I uploaded some documents, in several different formats, and I cant edit them :/
 
Cant get it to work in FF... I dont get this.. if you upload a file how are you ment to edit it?

Has anyone being able to upload a file and edit it? If so.. how?
 
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Pro Tip : Spell check (or at least proof read) the title of the article before submitting.

"Microsoft's pushes Office online" - just makes no sense.
 
w1z4rd said:
Cant get it to work in FF... I dont get this.. if you upload a file how are you ment to edit it?

Has anyone being able to upload a file and edit it? If so.. how?
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In the article it is stated that it is available to US and UK users only. With my live accounts I can only store the files. Maybe that's why we can't edit?
 
BloemGuy said:
In the article it is stated that it is available to US and UK users only. With my live accounts I can only store the files. Maybe that's why we can't edit?
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Thats extremely retarded. Let me try access it through a server I have in the states... will post results back shortly.
 
Arg, even if I rdp into a server hosted at The Planet, and change my location in Hotmail to the US.. it still doesnt give me the option to edit the files.
 
w1z4rd said:
Doesnt work on my side :( Im using Chrome.. perhaps thats why? I uploaded some documents, in several different formats, and I cant edit them :/
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It doesn't work with Chrome at all - I tried it on my side as well. That's sort of a slap in the face to Google.

Web Apps is alright, but not great. For now I'll stick with Google Docs.
 
BlueGeek said:
It doesn't work with Chrome at all - I tried it on my side as well. That's sort of a slap in the face to Google.

Web Apps is alright, but not great. For now I'll stick with Google Docs.
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Yeah, I work on many different documents that are shared and we find google docs is ideal for this... so I was eager to try out their online office, but it appears online office is useless... so moving along. I will stick with google docs.. cause they actually work.

When you say it "doesnt work with chrome".... are you even able to open up a document to view it? Or does it just give you that stupid download option?
 
w1z4rd said:
When you say it "doesnt work with chrome".... are you even able to open up a document to view it? Or does it just give you that stupid download option?
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At time it gives me the error: To edit this workbook you first need to save it in a supported format. To do this, open the workbook for viewing and select Save a Copy from the File tab. - but I did it with both .xls and .xlsx. If I do the same in IE8 then it's happy.
 
BlueGeek said:
At time it gives me the error: To edit this workbook you first need to save it in a supported format. To do this, open the workbook for viewing and select Save a Copy from the File tab. - but I did it with both .xls and .xlsx. If I do the same in IE8 then it's happy.
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Ive uploaded all those forms of documents.. and I still cant edit them. Have you tried to upload a file and edit it?
 
I could upload both documents (from post #3) to Google docs, and both opened for editing without a problem.
 
BlueGeek said:
Yip I have. Perfect in IE8, but not Chrome.
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I have no idea what I cant.. when I click on a file under my documents, it only gives me an option to download it. Ill try install ie7 for linux and try it through that.
 
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