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Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by girvo »

I just wish the Tasks/To-do portion of Outlook.com/Live Calendar would sync to anything on a Windows 8 desktop.

My girlfriend has a WP8 phone and a Windows 8 laptop, and uses Live for all her PIM stuff -- but there isn't any way to get Live Calendar tasks/to-dos on her desktop. It works on her phone though, so go figure, and it also works in the web app.

This is what frustrates me with Microsoft. They have cool features and neat applications, and the new integration across devices is awesome... but they miss these little details, and that ruins the experience quite a bit :(

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by analog31 »

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…

Excel.

I can live without all of the rest. It's not only a great tool for my own use, but it's widespread enough to be a de facto standard.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by MichaelGG »

bottompair wrote: post #80
MichaelGG wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is Bitlocker'd, plus EFS'd (just in case my TPM gives up the keys - it's unclear if the password is mixed in to derive key material or not). And I'm getting a new SSD with "Encrypted Drive" support, so the keys are never in-memory (although again, I don't know if the key is just sitting in an easily-accessible chip on the disk, or if my password combines for key material). And then EFS on top of that, and each VM…

Daaaaaaamn you must have some awesome secret files!

Not particularly. Anything really secret I probably wouldn't put on that computer. I just don't see why other people should be allowed to access my data.

The biggest win, I think is the internal "e drive" encryption, so that a RAM dump doesn't spill keys. That even somewhat mitigates Lightning DMA attacks. (Although the attacker could just hijack the OS at that point.)

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by [deleted] »

Cless wrote: post #48
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…

Introducing Bing 2.0: Bingle.

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Re: Microsoft Office Online

#107

Post by stephengillie »

nathantotten wrote: post #89
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.

Nexus 5, fully updated on chrome. The site looks great, and I'm excited to have free mobile spreadsheets.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by mrtimuk »

Someone just skyped me and the office.com tab is now flashing with their name in my browser. I'm not sure how to acknowledge the notification or read the message - any ideas?

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by greggman »

pacaro wrote: post #79
greggman wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Excel is a great tool for a developer.

For what purpose? I've used Excel in the past for developer things but with Google Docs everyone can edit at the same time. I've used that feature as well which AFAIK I don't get with Excel or Open Office.

The bigger the project the more likely multiple people will need to be able to edit the same file. It's easy to write a script to pull down the latest one.

Just a thought.

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