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1 posted on 07/13/2009 9:37:36 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Getting interesting.

2 posted on 07/13/2009 9:38:10 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Office contributes quite a bit to MS’s bottom line. I wonder if the online version will have a fee with it....even nominal?

3 posted on 07/13/2009 9:39:36 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If this happened in a big way, they would get access to nearly everything people work on!!

5 posted on 07/13/2009 9:46:23 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

6 posted on 07/13/2009 9:48:20 AM PDT by exist

9 posted on 07/13/2009 9:54:24 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

They can have my locally installed apps and especially my data when they pry them from my cold dead hard drive / NAS, respectively.

12 posted on 07/13/2009 10:03:28 AM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)

Kind of a side note:

Office 2010 hits testers minus Google punch

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Summer fun with online Office apps promised

By Gavin Clarke in New Orleans

13th July 2009 13:42 GMT

WPC The next version of Microsoft's Office is due to be released for testing today, but you won't be able to get your hands on the web-based edition of Office 2010 just yet.

Office Web applications won't be released for testing even though they have reached the same technical preview engineering milestone as Office 2010 and related products. Microsoft did not give a reason for the gap, but said they'd be released separately for testing later this summer.

In lieu of testing, Microsoft will announce that once the Office Web applications are finished they will be delivered in three ways.

Office Web applications will be made available to individuals and organizations for free via Windows Live, on premises to business users on its Software Assurance program, and to customers as a hosted service that's managed by Microsoft's Online Services unit.

The news will come at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, where it will say it's reducing the number of Office packages from eight to five through consolidation with Office 2010.

13 posted on 07/13/2009 10:19:27 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)

14 posted on 07/13/2009 10:23:14 AM PDT by T Minus Four (Matthew 15:8 - 9)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

16 posted on 07/13/2009 10:25:43 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I just installed OpenOffice on two PC’s I recently bought.

So far, so good, and it was free.

To me, I’d think this was a pretty credible threat to MS, but . . .

Only thing it doesn’t come with is Outlook (or some Outlook variant).

22 posted on 07/13/2009 10:55:27 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs

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