Chief Executive Steve Ballmer will show Office in the cloud.
Taking on Google Inc., VMware Inc. and others, Microsoft is putting Office services into the cloud under the name "Office 365." It will be launched at a New York event on Tuesday. Microsoft's popular Office products have generated enormous revenue for the company, with nine out of every ten office computers running the software.
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The cloud is really great in theory...until your internet goes down or gets slowed by peak traffic. Also, when the cloud gets hacked or crashes (and this one will; they are using Windows on the servers), you can be down from days to weeks.
Also, the price is no good. The only thing that Microsoft Office does better than OpenOffice are a handful of special excel functions that almost no one uses. I would think office365 would be a bad choice if it were free...but $2 per month, and that only gets you word? FAIL.
Originally posted by KillerBug: The cloud is really great in theory...until your internet goes down or gets slowed by peak traffic. Also, when the cloud gets hacked or crashes (and this one will; they are using Windows on the servers), you can be down from days to weeks.
Also, the price is no good. The only thing that Microsoft Office does better than OpenOffice are a handful of special excel functions that almost no one uses. I would think office365 would be a bad choice if it were free...but $2 per month, and that only gets you word? FAIL.
No cloud for me thx M$.I haven't used overpriced MS Office for a longtime.
OpenOffice suites my needs.
http://www.openoffice.org/ Jeff
