NSA will have a lot more documents now in their collection to analyze.
I feel like it is very unlikely that any of the documents saved on this service will ever be of interest to the NSA so I would guess this would just add more noise
Microsoft Office Online
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, right. Office is MS cash cow. If they charged a reasonable amount for monthly use, that would be good. Lets say, 1 dollar per month. 3 dollar for 4 users family pack. That would be great.
I got a license for home use from my company for a one time payment of under $10. So millions of people probably have a deal that's even better than what you're asking for.
Same here. But I don't even use it and default to LibreOffice all the time (I only use Linux nowadays).
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#33They should make Office free. These days, more and more non-techie friends are starting to use OpenOffice on their own. While OO quality is no where near Microsoft Office's, OO writer and Powerpoint are good enough for simple usage. And people, don't make fancy PP anymore. They just need something that can read ppt and something they can play.
They make so much money off office. We buy licenses for almost every person at the company just because there's no equivalent to excel. Only windows boxes in our office are the finance guys who can't adapt to excel on the Mac.
Excel really has no equal, unfortunately.
Re: Microsoft Office Online
#34According to Wikipedia " rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Online>, Office Online (in its previous incarnation as Office Web Apps) has been free to public since 2010.
Re: Microsoft Office Online
#35They should make Office free. These days, more and more non-techie friends are starting to use OpenOffice on their own. While OO quality is no where near Microsoft Office's, OO writer and Powerpoint are good enough for simple usage. And people, don't make fancy PP anymore. They just need something that can read ppt and something they can play.
Big companies still need the Office/Exchange combo and will pay handsomely for it. Maybe we'll see a decent consumer version for free, but Office in general will always be a major chunk of MSFT's revenue.
Add in Lync. After seeing a demo and getting our small office on Lync, I can't imagine going back to other crappy PBXes and their version of "Unified" communications/messaging. Most of them thing adding a toolbar to Outlook means it's a solved problem.
Being able to screen share, conference call, regular calling/transferring/etc. in addition to secure IM and all that - it's really slick.
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#36The Office Web Apps, as they were called before, have been free ever since they were released in 2009 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Web_Apps). They've just always been somewhat hidden inside Skydrive (which has also now been rebranded as Onedrive).
This is nothing new, per se, just a launcher page that lets you directly access each of the web apps instead of having to launch the apps from inside Skydrive's file explorer.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
They make so much money off office. We buy licenses for almost every person at the company just because there's no equivalent to excel. Only windows boxes in our office are the finance guys who can't adapt to excel on the Mac.
Excel really has no equal, unfortunately.
You could almost say that it... excels.
Re: Microsoft Office Online
#38They should make Office free. These days, more and more non-techie friends are starting to use OpenOffice on their own. While OO quality is no where near Microsoft Office's, OO writer and Powerpoint are good enough for simple usage. And people, don't make fancy PP anymore. They just need something that can read ppt and something they can play.
They make so much money off office. We buy licenses for almost every person at the company just because there's no equivalent to excel. Only windows boxes in our office are the finance guys who can't adapt to excel on the Mac.
Make it free for home/educational/personal use then, with liberal definitions of those terms, and keep on charging enterprises. Enterprise licensing is where the money is for a product like Office anyway, and those customers actually prefer having to pay for something over getting the same thing for free.
Meanwhile, all those people using the free version will be churning out lots of documents in Office file formats, adding to the value of having a copy of Office around. That in turn makes it more attractive to paying customers.
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#39They should make Office free. These days, more and more non-techie friends are starting to use OpenOffice on their own. While OO quality is no where near Microsoft Office's, OO writer and Powerpoint are good enough for simple usage. And people, don't make fancy PP anymore. They just need something that can read ppt and something they can play.
They make so much money off office. We buy licenses for almost every person at the company just because there's no equivalent to excel. Only windows boxes in our office are the finance guys who can't adapt to excel on the Mac.
Excel for Mac is missing a bunch of features and is way less performant than Excel for Windows. I don't blame the guys.
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#40OneNote is included! Wow you have no idea how happy that makes me as a OneNote user since 2006 or so. It's my favorite part of Office.
OneNote is awesome. I'd use it more, but I can't figure out a way to encrypt it while still getting sync. If they offered some built-in password protection, so that the contents were safely encrypted on-device and the hosting aspect just sync'd blobs, hey, awesome.
They could even implement a differential update mechanism, just encrypt the deltas before uploading. (After careful review, since that might introduce some sort of crypto weakness.) I'd even be satisfied if some of the metadata wasn't encrypted.
Otherwise, I don't feel comfortable in having a detailed, personal, life journal. I want something I could access from various devices and record internal thoughts, while minimizing the possibility of anyone including close friends, getting access.
OneNotes default appears to be "hey, we'll drop this, unencrypted, in your Live sign-in default storage".