Microsoft’s Office 2010 Free

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE56C34T20090713

 

Not exactly. Microsoft is proposing to provide free over-the-internet access to three versions of Office. Also, you'll have to have the stomache for constant ads, because

In other words, the same thing Google's hoping to do - get more people online to drive ad revenue.

 

And, as with everything 'cloud-ish' (my emphasis on the -ish) you are at the mercy of internet connectivity, every ISP/carrier between you and the cloud data center and the competence of the cloud provider to make sure that your apps and data are available when needed and secure.

no thanks

 

Ditto.

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all in all, i'll buy the apps. they're not expensive but then, they're mine. independent on my isp, my country, europe, and america, and microsoft, and their isp, and the reliability on their hw.

and the weather.

and the ones that repair the streets outside my house to not happily cut my cables AGAIN.

etc..

i hate clouds. i hate them in weather, i hate them in the web..

 

Ditto

 

When you buy MS Office, you buy the license. You don't own the program, you own the right to use the program.

 

That is a distinction that is not sufficiently appreciated by way too many people, including some people on NBR whom you would think would know better (but not including davepermen, as I'm sure that he understands the distinction thoroughly ).

 

I wish it was actually going to be free. I probably won't be upgrading to 2010. I think 2007 is still relatively new and works well.

I am not really excited about using internet access programs just yet. I may be more excited about it in the future when internet access is more widespread.
Tim

 

Not going to work very well for my country where internet access itself, is a bit expensive.

 

works for me, I have internet access everywhere I have my laptop, except transportation systems (planes)

 

yep. but as long as i care about the setup routine, then it means if i have the setup at hand, and the licence (which is a lifetime licence, unlike the no-guarantee-at-all-"licence" of webapps), i am in full control. i can install, run, and use it without having to rely on microsoft.

else, i have to. i have to rely on their webservers to be up and online and 100% stable while i work on it.

that was my point.

i don't ever have to rely on microsoft after i bought my office (licence + setup media). i only have to rely on my pc.

 

I'm not excited and never will. there is no gain for a user. except if he does not have his personal system at hand. and that will more and more be unimportant as the cellphone gains more power.

it's mostly gain for the developer. no deployment complexity, full control of proprietary systems, new billing methods, advertising, full control on who can do what.

for users it means lowerperforming, higher resource requiring, lower latency applications with less features possible than the desktop version. so thanks, no.

as long as i can't install the webversion on my own webserver with my own database, it's not something i want. happily, google wave looks like it will allow installation of own servers. i'll love it, then (that has to be as serverside app.. not a webapp per se, but serverside at least. like mail.)

 

Quick look at it and it feels the same as 07, just a different "theme"