Microsoft's Move to the Cloud Proves a Worthy Opponent for Google Apps
Microsoft's Move to the Cloud Proves a Worthy Opponent for Google Apps
Posted 09/18/2009 at 6:07am
| by Paul Lilly
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While most of the attention between Microsoft and Google focuses on the search engine scuffle (Bing vs Google), the two sides are also doing battle in the Cloud, where things are starting to heat up. That's because Microsoft on Thursday began opening the doors of its free web-based version of its Office Suite -- called Microsoft Office Web Applications -- to select Windows Live SkyDrive users.
Things will really get interesting when Microsoft officially launches its online version of Office in the first half of 2010, and until then, the software maker still has time to fine tune the experience, although it might not have much to do. Microsoft Office Web Applications already works on Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari, while support for Chrome is being developed. But the biggest boon might be the ability to switch between the desktop and web versions
Between now and launch, Microsoft says it will be adding beta testers 1000 users at a time
Image Credit: Microsoft via TechCrunch
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mesiah
September 18, 2009 at 8:02pm
If their online version of excel is more intuitive than googles spreadsheet program, I will have to switch. I Use excel daily and most tasks just feel effortless. When I attempt to do the same thing on the google apps version it just feels cumbersome and limited. Just the act of embedding a hyper link into text involves manually coding it, as where excel you can just right click and select insert hyperlink.
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