Microsoft now With Free, Web-based Office

Microsoft announced “lightweight” versions of its Office products that will be free and web-based — a direct competitor to Google Apps.

The free products will include Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote, and will be available to anyone with a Microsoft Live account.

Microsoft Fights Google Apps With Free, Web-based Office

I hope this run across all browsers i.e. Opera, Firefox, Chrome, etc.

and I do hope that EU won't blame MS for monopoly in giving an aplication for free

now THAT can kill google Apps if people can get past their 'I Hate MS' feelings :razz:

for most of those MS haters, it's like. "Shout hatred against MS in public, go home and boot your windows PC"

Thats gud very gud
And i hope its very light wieght so dailup users can also use it .

MS is now-a-days becoming the gud guys

...expect Windows 7 will blow a hole in everyone's pocket

maybe now with Bill gone, they are not blindly in race for money...
No wonder HE is the richest man of the world...

I hate MS, I use windows...
People hate MS because they copy others nad they want to monopolise...
Its like this....
Oooh there is a search engine, lets make one of ours...
Oooh there is an email service, lets buy it out...
Oooh there is a blog, Lets make a clone..
even dos wasn't an original idea...

angie said:
I hate MS, I use windows...
People hate MS because they copy others nad they want to monopolise...
Its like this....
Oooh there is a search engine, lets make one of ours...
Oooh there is an email service, lets buy it out...
Oooh there is a blog, Lets make a clone..
even dos wasn't an original idea...

Are these ur accusation to MS?
Because, I can show u even Google did too.
Wat about YouTube? It was not google's. Google bought it.
Blogger. Google bought it.

If u want to grow ur business u've to take the way of acquiring small companies.
If I'm not wrong, in business terms this is called in-organic growth

Yup rhitwick ur right
"If u want to grow ur business u've to take the way of acquiring small companies"
thats wat business is

angie said:
maybe now with Bill gone, they are not blindly in race for money...
No wonder HE is the richest man of the world...

I hate MS, I use windows...
People hate MS because they copy others nad they want to monopolise...
Its like this....
Oooh there is a search engine, lets make one of ours...
Oooh there is an email service, lets buy it out...
Oooh there is a blog, Lets make a clone..
even dos wasn't an original idea...

Why didn't your wea frocks and chudidaars coz all male are wearing pants and shirts? why are you trying to do what others do?

FYI,

Google is not the one that created search engine yet they rule it
MS is not the one that created OS and yet they rule it
Nokia is not the one that created cell phone and yet they rule it
HP is not the one that created PC and yet they rule it.

It doesn't matter who created. What matters is the implementation and in that MS and Google are masters.

Microsoft's model has always been to sell software, and to push users to buy new versions of the same old thing every 18-36 months, by ladling on one new feature after another. By the time Microsoft heaved Office 2003 out the door the suite had become such a bulky product, with so many buried features and functions, that the company had to completely recreate the user interface to "expose the functionality" in the next version, Office 2007. This business model had served the company well until now: Office brings in $15 - $20 billion a year in revenues, second only to Microsoft's Windows franchise. But the sales curve has flattened, even as Google Docs gained traction.

Google's model is to sell contextually targeted advertising and to tie its products into its search engine. Microsoft, with its Bing search engine and the Web-based version of office, Office Web, is pursing that same "free" business model perfected by Google.

But Microsoft's corporate culture is still built around the idea of selling the user ever more features. Teasing users with a free, dumbed down Office online and then trying to upsell them with a "more is better" strategy could easily backfire.

*blogs.computerworld.com/office_web_does_microsoft_really_get_free?source=rss_blogs

@blondie, that guy is a damn good joker. win98 -> winxp -> win vista. just few features changed.

office 2k -> office 2k3 -> office 2k7. again just few features changed.
ie 4 -> ie 5 -> ie 6 -> ie 7. still just few features changed.

someone need to tell that idiot to open his eyes and stop dreaming!!!

Google docs is still considered as no-threat to ms office and this guy thinks it has gained traction???

When every one is thinking that this is a smart move to attack Google, this guy thinks it could easily backfire. What a lame analyst!!!!

everybody has different thinking...
maybe i am wrong.. Or may i hate MS too much

Still they created bing after failing on windows live search... keep repeating the same mistake again...
And office, look how costly it is...
I respect MS on the OS front.

The problem with them is that they want to monopolize everything..
look how crap IE is... or maybe you guys love it...

well...i use notepad and OOO for my writing , am happy with it, and it takes care of all my needs.
well online writing , i haven't done that.