Microsoft and Adobe to Offer Online Office

And you thought they will not go the google way ? lol

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Microsoft has announced new additions to its software and services strategy, including Microsoft Office Live Workspace, a new web-based feature of Microsoft Office that lets people access their documents online and share their work with others.

The new strategy departs from the company's current model of selling licences for software that runs locally on computers, and takes it a little closer to competitor Google which offers online versions of its productivity applications suite Docs, which includes spreadsheet, word processor and presentation software.

Meanwhile, another competitor, Adobe, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virtual Ubiquity and its online word processor, Buzzword.

The announcements by Adobe and Microsoft signal the online office productivity market is heating up. IBM announced last month its Lotus Symphony productivity software, which boasted 100,000 downloads in its first week of availability. The software is based on open-source office productivity software from OpenOffice.org, and is available as software running on the desktop only.

It will suck, and will be the next big joke around. Of course, Ms and Adobe will demand that clients have 8Mbps lines and computers with more ram than Steve jobs has ego..........heh.

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Adobe buzzword- www.buzzword.com

Nice move by ms after bhatia's online live office announcement...

Should wait and see how things go from here.but i prefer the system one..

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Buzzword is flash based , so mainly for those with high speed connections. Zoho works well on data cards as well

ms online office has been in the making for a long time now .... office.live.com

If only I had some high speed internet. I would have lived in the online office space. It's so convenient...

Ya true.high speed users can get benefit largely

Google Docs is good enough for casual users.
BuzzWord is like taking ages to load.

Regards,
ray

Cool.. thanks for the info... i think this the answer to ZOHO

JharuPochaBai said:
It will suck, and will be the next big joke around. Of course, Ms and Adobe will demand that clients have 8Mbps lines and computers with more ram than Steve jobs has ego..........heh.

that's right

MAY BE I M HAVIN A FALSE MEMEORY but i recall that at least 5-6 years ago i saw on news some similar kind of technology where two or more users can create n modify the same DOCUMENTS online....i m not sure abt this memory though.

^I too agree with your point.

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WOW...google,zoho,bhatia,adobe,microsoft,IBM...all the big fishes are here..wait for the best..

^ ZOHO is best at the moment

I am not trolling, but I feel that there is no point in using online office for most of us normal people. Only companies working on big projects need them. Sharing can be done with email/upload anyway.

MetalheadGautham said:
.... I feel that there is no point in using online office for most of us normal people.

I'd like to add something: I feel that there is no point in using online office for most of us in India.

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rayraven said:
Google Docs is good enough for casual users.
BuzzWord is like taking ages to load.

Regards,
ray

Try Zoho , its even faster than google docs