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Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by eropple »

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…

I use (Mac) Excel for a niche but handy purpose: as an editor tool for the game I'm building. Tabular data files for my game are stored in the (easily parsed) Excel 2004 XML format. There aren't really any similar, generalizable tools that are more modder-friendly and I'm not going to sit there writing YAML/JSON/XML to fill in stuff like "this wooden sword costs 10 coins" because there are vastly better things to be doing with my time.

I could use LibreOffice, as it supports Excel 2004 XML files, but Office is cheap enough and LibreOffice annoying enough that it's worth my time to just use the real thing rather than run the risk of a psychotic, gouge-my-eyes-out break from the still-horrible-in-2014 LibreOffice UX.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by roryokane »

cyanbane wrote: post #78

In proper MS marketing form I think there is a difference in two very similar products (and their names don't help the consumer at all). Office online is a web-based version of these popular apps (1:1 parity of OS software? I am not sure). There is also a $99 subscription model that allows you to install these apps for 5 computers (local OS software installs) + the benefits of these web apps + X gigs of One/Sky Drive…

The online apps don’t have 1:1 parity with the desktop software. For example, Word Online doesn’t allow creation of custom Styles, and Excel Online doesn’t support Pivot Tables.

The subscription model you are thinking of is called Microsoft Office 365 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_365).

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by sliverstorm »

BuckRogers wrote: post #82
MichaelGG wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"Merely OK" is pretty damn good when everything else is "truly shitty"

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by edwardy20 »

footpath wrote: post #34

According 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.

I thought this was common knowledge. You could always use Word and Excel on Skydrive (now Onedrive).

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by erichurkman »

ritchiea wrote: post #64
footpath wrote: post #34

According 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.

Maybe the OP is a talented marketer at Microsoft

I'm sure its no coincidence the Office Online team has an I Am A… scheduled for this Friday on http://www.reddit.com/r/iama

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by bnolsen »

Silhouette wrote: post #74
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…

Why would I want to install Open Office when I can access Google Docs from ANY machine, not just machines have have Open Office installed? Much larger feature set. Privacy. Robustness and future-proofing. Shall we go on? Do you find you need Office or Open Office still? Sure. I've never used word processors much for professional work, as I find different tools of one kind or another are usually a better choice for pr…

I always find gnumeric to be plenty powerful for doing any spreadsheet stuffs I need to do. No I don't get fancy, just mess with columns and formulae and statistical analysis.

Re: Microsoft Office Online

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Post by nevi-me »

Will it save my documents in a compatible format to Office 2013? I've had Excel documents go corrupt or unreadable on Excel desktop app. As much as I use Excel at work and home, I'm staying away from their online thing with most of my work. Been burnt enough
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