From Business Week | Microsoft Office 2010, due out in June, will include a free Web version and may eventually include Twitter-like features according to Microsoft President Stephen Elop. Microsoft is moving toward a cloud computing model as it tries to compete with Google and others.
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Microsoft Office 2010 to offer free Web version
Posted Feb. 17, 2010 at 10:26 a.m.
I read the Business Week article, and one can rest assured that Microsoft isn’t giving up its most profitable niche. It sounds like they will be putting this on their “cloud,” and at least businesses would have to pay for the privilege of being there. Whether Microsoft comes up with something like that you have to pay to get your documents that you created with free webware from the cloud, we’ll have to wait to see.
Are you really going to trust Microsoft?
Whether you are going to use this to write a letter and or even save it on their server.
You have to be nuts.
They can not even produce a product that is relatively free of bugs.
Security, what security? Who needs security?
Why do people expect free from MS? And which software is bug free? I am a mac user, and havent had to use PC’s in a while but I know that no software is bug free.
Why do people pay Salesforce.com monthly fees to access their own data?
Why do people pay to use so many of the SaaS models?
It is business.
The Sun OpenOffice system is free and does all the same things as Microsoft’s office, which costs.
Look for it with Google and download it – for free!