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Microsoft launches Office 365
STAGE JUMPING SHOUTING MAN and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has hosted a webcast introducing Microsoft Office 365, the Vole's late coming response to the not very recent boom in cloud computing.
According to Ballmer the release has been six years in the making, but doesn't it sound like it. The INQUIRER had one ear open during the presentation and was amused to hear the company talking up features that, well, don't sound particularly fresh at all.
Know then that Office 365 is cloud based, like all those other cloud services you use. Revel in the information that it allows for video conferencing, like those other services you have been using for years. And pull your jaw back off their floor following the news that it lets people in different locations work together on a project, like... well, you get the idea, for years lately.
Ballmer, who was enthused during the presentation, if slightly scaly looking, suggested that by embracing this new old way of doing things some firms will be able to save themselves a lot of IT headaches - not normally something associated with Microsoft - and can for example throw out up to sixty of their servers and add two virtual workers to a team of around 35, so presto miraculously, thanks to the amazing and unprecedented, step right up, productivity gains on offer from Microsoft.
Office 365 is available in 40 countries and features Microsoft Office, Microsoft Sharepoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online. It is charged on a monthly rate, and according to the firm this will be 'predictable' - whatever that means. Internally, of course, it means a toss-up between predictable revenues based on software licence tolls and unpredictable ones based upon how often users dip into its tools, what size they are and how many people work there.
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What century old version of word/outlook are you losers using?
Outlook uses Word as the default editor its no longer different so the format in one is identical to the format in the other. When doing comparisons to PDF please dont use a 2003 product in your analysis.
But I guess most of you complainers think $2.00 a month will keep you in moms basement forever.
What's with all the negative comments? Shortly after I began beta testing Orifice 180, I found girls are more attracted to me. They all think I am so cool because I am "cloud" savvy.
THESE PROGRAMS ARE SLOW TO LOAD AND CUMBERSOME TO USE. I JUST HATE GETTING .DOC IN AN EMAIL, ITS LIKE WHY DONT YOU JUST COPY PASTE YOUR LETTER INTO THE EMAIL BODY FOR PETES SAKE? MS WORD FORMATTING IS ALL SCREWED UP ANYWAY, THE ONLY GOOD FORMAT IS PDF, THAT IS IF YOU ARE SO DEEPLY OFFENDED TO TYPE YOUR INFO OUT INTO AN EMAIL.
LOOKOUT IS THE ONLY GOOD THING TO HAVE HAPPENED TO OUTLOOK AND MS STOMPED IT INTO THE GROUND. FEW PEOPLE USE XLS PROPERLY, AND I HAVE YET TO SEE A SINGLE MS ACCESS IMPLEMENTATION SUCCESSFULLY DONE BY SOMEBODY NOT A CONSULTING COMPANY.
I SCORED THE DIGITAL RIVER COPY OF 2007 AND 2010 FOR LIKE $40, NEVER USED EITHER ONE. IN FACT I NEVER EVEN USED THE 2010 INSTALLATION CODE YET AND ITS HALF PAST 2011!
I DONT KNOW HOW MS OFFICE GOT SO OVER-RATED, BUT IT SURE DID LEMME TELL YA.
And in other news, Micr0$uck$ leaked that the latest version of the LoseDoze Operating System (O/S) - lucky "8" - will be enable the users to install the internet onto their computer so the users can browse the web and point and click and cut and paste and multitask and do all of the things that are so DIFFICULT if not downright IMPOSSIBLE with any other O/S.
And in other news, Micr0$uck$ leaked that the latest version of the LoseDoze Operating System (O/S) - lucky "8" - will be enable the users to install the internet onto their computer so the users can browse the web and point and click and cut and paste and multitask and do all of the things that are so DIFFICULT if not downright IMPOSSIBLE with any other O/S.
And in other news, Micr0$uck$ leaked that the latest version of the LoseDoze Operating System (O/S) - lucky "8" - will be enable the users to install the internet onto their computer so the users can browse the web and point and click and cut and paste and multitask and do all of the things that are so DIFFICULT if not downright IMPOSSIBLE with any other O/S.