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Wednesday 20 February 2008, 10:56 AM
‘Office 14’ Web-Friendly - Yippee! Still Not Wallet-Friendly
Big Bill has been quoted in the press recently saying that ‘Office 14’ will be Web-friendly. Welcome to the Internet revolution! Microsoft won’t provide the full functionality of Office online, but it will offer limited capabilities to view and edit the data in Office applications. Haven’t the Redmond suits even heard of Web 2.0? Microsoft already does this for its Outlook e-mail client with Outlook Web Access...
Microsoft seems to be feeling the squeeze from online office applications, and I’m glad to see the company sweating and having to adapt to the change on the application side. I guess the next step for it will be to adapt to the new pricing model for productivity applications - FREE! Oh, and how about it chucks in a little open source while it is at it. We can dream...
Microsoft’s productivity applications have been around longer than the BT engineer at the end of my street, so isn’t it about time they should be commodity by now? Paying £400 for an office suite made sense when the price of the desktop/laptop was £3K. Now the price of the hardware has come down to £300 and we still pay £400 for an office suite.
On top of it, there is a new version every two or three years asking for an upgrade. What’s wrong with this picture? Maybe someday we’ll see a model like Web applications where ‘all upgrades are included’. Productivity apps should be a commodity by now and I'm putting my foot down...
Microsoft seems to be feeling the squeeze from online office applications, and I’m glad to see the company sweating and having to adapt to the change on the application side. I guess the next step for it will be to adapt to the new pricing model for productivity applications - FREE! Oh, and how about it chucks in a little open source while it is at it. We can dream...
Microsoft’s productivity applications have been around longer than the BT engineer at the end of my street, so isn’t it about time they should be commodity by now? Paying £400 for an office suite made sense when the price of the desktop/laptop was £3K. Now the price of the hardware has come down to £300 and we still pay £400 for an office suite.
On top of it, there is a new version every two or three years asking for an upgrade. What’s wrong with this picture? Maybe someday we’ll see a model like Web applications where ‘all upgrades are included’. Productivity apps should be a commodity by now and I'm putting my foot down...
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