Web Based Office to be "Free"

[Kal-EL]

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Microsoft Office Online to Go Free (http://www.techpowerup.com/99172/Microsoft_Office_Online_to_Go_Free.html)
Faced with a future competitor in general productivity applications, Google, which recently announced concrete plans with a web-friendly operating system, Microsoft expressed plans to make Office Online - a web-based (http://www.techpowerup.com/#) version of Office - free. Microsoft's upcoming Office 2010 productivity suite will be available both as a paid software that you can purchase and use, and an web-based application that can be run from within a web-browser. According to the company, the upcoming Office Online is designed to work seamlessly with popular web-browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari (http://www.techpowerup.com/#), apart from its own Internet Explorer. Currently Microsoft has a highly profitable business of selling the Office productivity suite, which amounts for $20 billion of the company's revenue. The company is working on pre-release community versions of Office 2010.

Source: CNN Money, Fortune Blogs (http://bigtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/07/13/microsoft-office-to-go-online-for-free/)
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[Buckeye]

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I am not sure I like all this web based stuff. It could make things easyer for many, having apps that are pretty high priced to buy. But I do see a paid service coming out of this. Do this free now to get you suckered in and using it, then bam you have to pay for it at some point.

How would you save files, on your desktop or on the web based setup ?
I am sure it would have to be saved on a web based storgae system, other wise you could not access it anywhere on a different machine. Like Laptop while away and then Desktop at home.

Out here we have been having issues with Comcast when it starts getting really hot. I went a week when we had temps well over 100 and Comcast would go out around 3:00pm until 8 or 9 at night.

Durning that time I would be SOL if I was really using this stuff.

[Kal-EL]

I'm not a fan of using a web browser to input all my secret squirrel documents. The baddies could easily find out where I keep all my winter nuts.

[Buckeye]

I'm not a fan of using a web browser to input all my secret squirrel documents. The baddies could easily find out where I keep all my winter nuts.

Well I do a fair amount work with peoples personal information that I must be careful with. But for just dumb stuff the web would not be a problem.

Think of how would you use this for work related stuff, not letters to a friend or cooking recipies.

[DrNip]

I dunno about this either. I will have to wait and see it. Either way it goes my rig doesn't have office, virus protectors or anything of that nature on it. Strictly benching/gaming rig it is. I have my HP or office pc for when I need to use Word/Excel/Access and what not.

[Neuromancer]

I thought it was already free lol

Seriously though the office live thing is great, best part about it is, if you have office installed.

I love outlook, and have it automatically sync my emilas and calendar and contacts and everything when I am away from my PC I can still get everything. When I am not online, I can still get to everything. Works great.

The Word and such, I guess is cool too, I do not really use the other parts of office anymore. (Word occasionally) excel and Access I never use.

Once I start working again I will probably get around to installing MS Money 2009 (or whatever it is called now I forget lol)