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Re: Microsoft Office Online

#41

Post by nightski »

smacktoward wrote: post #38
adrr wrote: post #27

Earlier 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.

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,…

TBH home/educational/personal use is probably perfectly suited by the office online suite being discussed here.

Otherwise I pay like $10 a month for the full office 365 suite, which is rather cheap.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by fpgeek »

Is this a (belated) reaction to Google Docs being "good enough" for many use cases?

We also just heard about Chrome OS pushing Microsoft to cut the price of Windows licenses for low-end laptops. Plus we have Nokia (soon to be Microsoft's smartphone division) releasing low-end handsets based on Android.

These may all be reasonable strategic choices (I tend to think they're at least heading in the right direction), but put the picture together and it looks like Microsoft has been pushed into playing Google's game according to Google's rules. That usually doesn't end well.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

#45

Post by futurist »

kevincrane wrote: post #24
electic wrote: post #19

NSA will have a lot more documents now in their collection to analyze.

It's like we're not even trying to avoid cliche comments any more.

Cliche? No, it's a reminder Microsoft sells it's users down the river.

Maybe you don't, but some people actually speak up for their rights.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

#47

Post by yeukhon »

smacktoward wrote: post #38
adrr wrote: post #27

Earlier 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.

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,…

If the employer gives each employee a chromebook instead of a desktop, and tell each employee to get Office on their own, then the employer doesn't have to pay license fee for every employee. I imagine this can reduce the operation cost by a lot.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

#48

Post by Cless »

fpgeek wrote: post #44

Is this a (belated) reaction to Google Docs being "good enough" for many use cases? We also just heard about Chrome OS pushing Microsoft to cut the price of Windows licenses for low-end laptops. Plus we have Nokia (soon to be Microsoft's smartphone division) releasing low-end handsets based on Android. These may all be reasonable strategic choices (I tend to think they're at least heading in the right direction), but…

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Re: Microsoft Office Online

#49

Post by marshray »

MichaelGG wrote: post #40
fournm wrote: post #3

OneNote 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 som…

What if you put your notebook file on a Bitlocker'd drive?

Re: Microsoft Office Online

#50

Post by onwardly »

yeukhon wrote: post #10

They 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.

I'll just say that design quality of presentations, especially for startups who need credibility, is extremely important. Powerpoint- while it doesn't do it for you- is the easiest way to look credible without doing all of your slides in Adobe software.

For internal company presentations, perhaps it doesn't make sense to do fancy powerpoints. But if you can't make a presentation that looks credible, it betrays confidence in your ability to deliver on a product/service that is legitimate.

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