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Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by KC8ZKF »

onwardly wrote: post #50
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 confid…

In other words, salesmanship versus communication. See Tufte & al.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by BuckRogers »

MichaelGG wrote: post #35
swivelmaster wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We use Lync, and ya, if they made it lighter weight and removed the bugs it would be merely OK.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by smurf_account »

TsomArp wrote: post #15
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.

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.

Not quite what you asked for, but there is a $100/yr or $10/mo plan for 5 people that also includes OneDrive storage and Skype minutes.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/home-premium/

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by BuckRogers »

futurist wrote: post #60
icpmacdo wrote: post #31

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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

The Russian people thought similarly in the 1920s about their letters and conversations - until in the dark of the night family members were dragged from their beds and deported to the Siberian tundras to die.

Aren't you a downer.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by bite »

This is great news for GNU+Linux users, I'm always so hesitant when installing libreoffice to my computer and use google drive when veiwing ppt files. In my opinion Microsoft office online loads ppt files a lot faster, which is nice. You also don't have to go full screen to view all the animations. Cool.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by kevincrane »

corysama wrote: post #63
electic wrote: post #30

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It's Tuesday night, it's late in SF. Still at the office. I felt MS Office Online should have been free from the start. So having a bit of fun, no need to be serious and write 5 paragraph comments analyzing the news, how you feel about the news, and how it impacts the industry. Sometimes being cliché is exactly what is in order.

Jokes on HN are strongly discouraged. As much as people like them, their presence creates a feedback loop that drives the noise-to-signal ratio through the roof. Jokes can be made, understood and voted up very quickly. In a democratic situation like HN, this leads to a large volume of replies and up votes that quickly drowns out all relevant conversation. The more threads that feature jokes, the harder it becomes to…

No, I like jokes, don't get me wrong. I'm just kind of sick of the NSA being dragged into subjects that don't warrant it.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by yeukhon »

greggman wrote: post #71
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'm going to admit up front I'm probably hopelessly out of touch. I used to buy office from like Word 2.0 up through Office 2007 or so but for the life of me I can't figure out why most people would need Office today. Like I said I'm out of touch but... If I write docs for publication it's HTML. If I write for correspondence it's email If I write for product design it's probably a wiki. Something the entire team can…

Maybe it's just me. Google Docs seems hard to work with, espeically for someone who grew up with MS Office :( I give it a try a lot, but I still can't do everything I want with Google Docs. On the other hands, MS Office online is more complete (well, no duh)...

and it isn't so much about privacy for me though. I am not a journalist; I don't have sensitive information I need to hide from others.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by nathantotten »

stephengillie wrote: post #55

I can almost use this on my phone...but since I can not paste my highly randomized password, from my password database, into their website. Why not? I don't know, I think paste is disabled by Javascript. Who the hell would think that is a good idea?

Which phone were you using? I don't think this is actually on purpose, but I just tried it on my iPhone and did find that it was inconsistent and difficult to paste a password. I am going to send some emails and see if we can figure out the issue. Let me know what kind of phone you are on.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by ekianjo »

Steko wrote: post #65
ekianjo wrote: post #32

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Same here. But I don't even use it and default to LibreOffice all the time (I only use Linux nowadays).

Opposite case for me. In the past, anytime I had to use Libre/OpenOffice for more than 15 minutes made me feel like blowing my brains out.

Well I've never really liked the new UI paradigm in Office 2007 and beyond: it's just very messy to do even simple things. With LibreOffice there are certainly some UI issues as well, but it's closer to Office 2003 in terms of how things are organized.
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