M$ says FU to Google and offers free Office 2010

[Toasted1]

It’s too early to say Microsoft has checkmated Google in online documents – the latest version of Office hasn’t shipped yet. But the sleeping giant in Redmond has clearly woken up to the Internet threat.
Get this: Microsoft – the king of paid software – will announce today that it is going to give a version of Office away for free online. Both the online and desktop versions are scheduled to arrive in the first half of next year. Yes, you read that right. The latest version of its ubiquitous productivity software, dubbed Office 2010, will come as both a piece of software you can buy for your computer, and as a service you can access in your browser. [UPDATE: Microsoft says it will support the Firefox and Safari browsers as well as IE.

http://bigtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/07/13/microsoft-office-to-go-online-for-free/

[Spider Monkey]

Holy fucking sex kittens. That will kill Open Office for sure.

[bluecar]

Holy fucking sex kittens. That will kill Open Office for sure.

Open office sucked ass for high end data processing anyway.

[Volpone]

I prefer Open Office to MS Office, but perhaps because I have not encountered any situations where Open Office was insufficient.

[Toasted1]

I used open office for a while, never had issues opening MS data but when I would save and sent back sometimes shit would be unaligned or missing characters.

I have never paid for it anyway but this was quite an interesting move IMO. I also heard something about a free MS mobile OS coming out, I guess they realize google is giving away so much for free it may be time to finally give a little.

[Spider Monkey]

Open office sucked ass for high end data processing anyway.
Never used it. There is nothing that Office doesn't already do for word processing and spreadsheeting. I have a hard time believing that there is something out there for free that does what I require Excel for. I call that an impossibility.


I prefer Open Office to MS Office, but perhaps because I have not encountered any situations where Open Office was insufficient.

Wait until you enter the real world.

[Spider Monkey]

I used open office for a while, never had issues opening MS data but when I would save and sent back sometimes shit would be unaligned or missing characters.

I have never paid for it anyway but this was quite an interesting move IMO. I also heard something about a free MS mobile OS coming out, I guess they realize google is giving away so much for free it may be time to finally give a little.

They will use the add revenue from their new search engine to compensate like Google. :laugh:

[_AnGeL_]

zomgz like no wai ms office 2010 fo free

[IamDeMan]

Nice preempt on MS's part.

[bigtoyota479]

I've been using OpenOffice for years now. I couldn't see paying M$ for their office software when OpenOffice does it for free. I have had no issues with saved documents, nor have my employers, who all use M$ Office. The ONLY catch I know of is that some macros for Excel don't transfer well between the two.

However, I may give this free M$ Office crap a try when it comes out. Free is a good price.

[bluecar]

I've been using OpenOffice for years now. I couldn't see paying M$ for their office software when OpenOffice does it for free. I have had no issues with saved documents, nor have my employers, who all use M$ Office. The ONLY catch I know of is that some macros for Excel don't transfer well between the two.

However, I may give this free M$ Office crap a try when it comes out. Free is a good price.

When macros save countless man hours, you shall see.

[bluecar]

Never used it. There is nothing that Office doesn't already do for word processing and spreadsheeting. I have a hard time believing that there is something out there for free that does what I require Excel for. I call that an impossibility.


I tried it....it bogs down pretty bad when I was using it for some classwork. Normal excel at work had no issues.

I could have used access maybe...it was only 10k or so lines of data.

[Spider Monkey]

I tried it....it bogs down pretty bad when I was using it for some classwork. Normal excel at work had no issues.


I do a little bit more than sorting and hiding columns during my daily use of Excel. :laugh:

[bluecar]

I do a little bit more than sorting and hiding columns during my daily use of Excel. :laugh:

Indeed. It is why i had to learn book on programming to make the macros.

[hackman2007]

Better not be like the Office Live plugin where you need Office on your local computer to run it from the browser.

[Spider Monkey]

Better not be like the Office Live plugin where you need Office on your local computer to run it from the browser.


What the hell is the point of that? Office runs on a browser natively.

[IamDeMan]

lol @ SM gettin technical ITT

[Spider Monkey]

lol @ SM gettin technical ITT

Oops. My bad.

[IamDeMan]

Oops. My bad.

I'm sayin

[Spider Monkey]

Ruining my fuckin rep ITT.

[hackman2007]

What the hell is the point of that? Office runs on a browser natively.

But try and create a document, spreadsheet, etc. It won't let you unless you have Office on the computer.

I haven't used the plug-in (Office 2007 one) sine it was introduced, so it may have possibly changed, but I doubt it.

[Spider Monkey]

But try and create a document, spreadsheet, etc. It won't let you unless you have Office on the computer.


If it is on your computer already, why would you need a browser plug in? Just open the app. lel, over.

[bigtoyota479]

SM = technical ITT. :fyi:

[hackman2007]

It's to share it with other people or some shit like that.

You publish it to their web server after you create an account and can view it on any computer.

[Spider Monkey]

Sillyness I tell you. Sillyness.

[IamDeMan]

What's next? online acrobat viewers? over

[Spider Monkey]

lol