Microsoft to launch Office web apps Monday?
updated 03:30 pm EDT, Thu July 9, 2009
MS Office Web Apps Monday
Microsoft's Monday event should mark a more formal debut for the company's Office Web suite, tipsters said on Thursday. Although announced nine months ago, the suite is now said by Neowin to be getting a demonstration. It's not known if Microsoft will commit to a public release at the gathering.
Office Web is intended as a higher-end competitor to Google Docs and replicates as much as possible of the offline versions of Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Word in a browser. Integration is its most important feature and will ultimately let users export work to the web and share it with Windows Mobile or other PCs. Casual users should have free ad-based access, but there will also be a subscription-based version intended for serious regular users or workplaces.
The company should also provide details of its beta testing program for Office 2010, a Windows-only release meant as a companion for Windows 7.
all aboard
07/09, 04:18pm reply
the fail boat
van rijn
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Huh?
07/09, 05:04pm reply
A bloated, web-based Office by Microshit? No, thanks. FAIL.
ricardogf
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Why?
07/09, 05:12pm (1 reply) reply
Now we get to watch them clog up our Web browsers all day too? NO thanks. This should be fun watching them try to market this and divide it up into several little arbitrary pieces and tiers or service
c4rlob
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hmm
07/09, 06:01pm reply
All the benefits of using a lousy web interface for your office apps, without that pesky free price of gOffice... sign me up!
WiseWeasel
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Windows Only!!!
07/09, 06:36pm reply
So, if we want to use this sh..t, we all MUST have their Windows 7 and of course their IE ??? No Macs? No Linux?... And also, we have to "$ubscribe" to have some "features"?
Ok!!! Definitively, they haven't understood nothing! And we must have to say that Google has understood all!
inick06
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Get out the Vaseline
07/09, 07:16pm reply
Yeah, this will be Windows only and, given the horrid interface of Office 2007, not even close to intuitive.
Mr. Strat
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got a slogan for it.
07/09, 10:11pm reply
OfficeWeb. It just stinks.
Herod
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ActiveX and SilverLight
07/10, 02:49am reply
And of course, they'll force you to install their crapware like SilverLight, so that you'll be fully entrenched in MS technology. Yippeee !
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