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heruamon on 14 July 2009
JaggedSac said:
Yep, it was free Office 2010 over the web with cloud services offered.

Is this a bad idea to take away possible sales for the desktop suite? Or is it a good idea because the will be able to tie in MS's other cloud services and Bing? Maybe implemented in Silverlight so adoption of that will increase?


I doubt it...I'm sure this is limited in someways, and most corporate clients aren't going to expose their data to cloud jsut yet, but M$ is getting a foot in the door...a BIG foot. 



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Squilliam on 14 July 2009
heruamon said:
JaggedSac said:
Yep, it was free Office 2010 over the web with cloud services offered.

Is this a bad idea to take away possible sales for the desktop suite? Or is it a good idea because the will be able to tie in MS's other cloud services and Bing? Maybe implemented in Silverlight so adoption of that will increase?


I doubt it...I'm sure this is limited in someways, and most corporate clients aren't going to expose their data to cloud jsut yet, but M$ is getting a foot in the door...a BIG foot. 

And they have sprigs on their boot, so shifting them now would be hard.



Tease.

heruamon on 14 July 2009
Squilliam said:
heruamon said:
JaggedSac said:
Yep, it was free Office 2010 over the web with cloud services offered.

Is this a bad idea to take away possible sales for the desktop suite? Or is it a good idea because the will be able to tie in MS's other cloud services and Bing? Maybe implemented in Silverlight so adoption of that will increase?


I doubt it...I'm sure this is limited in someways, and most corporate clients aren't going to expose their data to cloud jsut yet, but M$ is getting a foot in the door...a BIG foot. 

And they have sprigs on their boot, so shifting them now would be hard.

Time will tell...but as I said, this is jsut to get the Office Brand in this clud thingy, since major users of the suite aren't going to move.



"...You can't kill ideas with a sword, and you can't sink belief structures with a broadside. You defeat them by making them change..."

- From By Schism Rent Asunder