Microsoft Brings Real-Time Collaboration To Free Office Web Apps

Post by Toshio » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 10:05 AM UTC

sz4kerto wrote: post #29

Toshio wrote: post #26

I cringe at the thought that some people consider this to be startup-relevant news (or even hacker-relevant news, for that matter). I flagged this submission, I hope the usual complainers understand why. If you don't, by all means, please elaborate.

I believe the fact that you can collaborate on documents online with a suite that offers you quite high level of compatibility with legacy documents is relevant. Also, a big player in the software industry implemented something significant. It's probably much more relevant to hackers that how important role India plays in controlling AIDS (or, for that matter, the daily BTC/Tesla/etc. posts).

Post by Toshio » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 10:09 AM UTC

pfortuny wrote: post #30

Toshio wrote: post #26

I cringe at the thought that some people consider this to be startup-relevant news (or even hacker-relevant news, for that matter). I flagged this submission, I hope the usual complainers understand why. If you don't, by all means, please elaborate.

The fact that the most used office suite has added one of the most relevant features which may make it interesting as an alternative to google docs may be somewhat relevant to startups (they may be interested in using the 'most used office suite' again...). But obviously, you are entitled to your own decisions.

Post by DanBC » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 10:18 AM UTC

Toshio wrote: post #26

I cringe at the thought that some people consider this to be startup-relevant news (or even hacker-relevant news, for that matter). I flagged this submission, I hope the usual complainers understand why. If you don't, by all means, please elaborate.

Post by pfortuny » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 10:30 AM UTC

Toshio wrote: post #33

pfortuny wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that the most used office suite has added one of the most relevant features which may make it interesting as an alternative to google docs may be somewhat relevant to startups (they may be interested in using the 'most used office suite' again...). But obviously, you are entitled to your own decisions.

> they may be interested in using the 'most used office suite' again Interesting twist, but I disagree. If anything, startups would be interested in disrupting, not aiding, a staid, old, established player's contraptions.

Post by codeka » Thu, Nov 07, 2013, 10:37 AM UTC

Toshio wrote: post #38

DanBC wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I flagged this submission, I hope the usual complainers understand why. Perhaps you could explain why you think this is flag-worthy? I could understand that you might find it unimportant, or dull. But you've flagged it, and declared that you flagged it, which suggests you have some strongly negative feeling toward it appearing here. I'd be interested to see where you'd put this on a scale with all the other stories…

> "strongly negative feeling toward it appearing here" This isn't about feelings, I'm just adding a data point to HN ranking algorithm. The reason I enjoy being on HN is because of this community's mindset of "let's disrupt the big, established, old players". Seen from that angle, this submission is irrelevant because it's not about disrupting a big player, it's about perpetuating a harmful monopoly.