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    Microsoft Office 365 is released today

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Fishon, Jun 28, 2011.

  1. Fishon

    Fishon I Will Close You

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    They need to make this free for personal use, or have a cheap annual or lifetime subscription for personal use.
     
    HTWingNut, Jun 28, 2011
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    I'm not a huge fan of leaving my documents on the cloud with any service at the moment. It might be nice at some point, but if your internet dies, the service goes down, or they lose your data entirely then you're out of luck.
     
    atbnet, Jun 29, 2011
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    skydrive.com

    the free version of it, for home users. soon with great integration on windows phone 7, too.

    indeed. which is why i can't accept any web-only cloud 'solutions'. web-synced cloud solutions are possible, though. most microsoft cloud solutions are available for local selfhosting, too. that means, microsoft provides the anywhere access, and the realtime backup of your local business, but if the web is down, business still is there with all apps and data. that's the way the cloud should be.

    i'm waiting for google to provide a local cloud solution for their business products. i've seen too much reasons for the internet to not be available to ever want to have all my stuff on google servers only.

    all in all, i love the cloud (the internet) to EXTEND my local stuff. not replace it.
     
    davepermen, Jun 29, 2011
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    Skydrive is the storage service not Microsoft Office apps.
     
    HTWingNut, Jun 29, 2011
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    [email protected] Notebook Enthusiast

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    What is the cost for it?
     
    [email protected], Jul 5, 2011
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  7. Fishon

    Fishon I Will Close You

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    I believe it's $6 per month. HTWingNut is right. It should be free for private use, or start charging at an increased level of usage.
     
    Fishon, Jul 5, 2011
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    I keep copies of stuff on Skydrive when I intend to float from location to location and would like to be able to access it. It comes in handy for school, I can throw my Office docs up there and do last-minute tweaks from the web-based Office apps regardless of the computer I'm sitting at.

    I also use Google Picasa for all of my online image storage. Of course I have local copies, the online stuff is just for sharing/remotely accessing. When I took my last vacation I didn't have to send hundreds of photos to each member of my family, I just said "here's the Picasa link" and off they went.

    It's a shame some of you have absolutely never uploaded a picture to an image service. It's quite convenient.
     
    S.SubZero, Jul 5, 2011
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