Microsoft Announces Cloud-based Office 365

Two biggest and most profitable products that Microsoft offers are Office and the Windows operating system. The company has announced this week that it is set to start testing a new cloud-based online version of Office that will battle directly against Google Docs in the business market for productivity software.

http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+A...ticle19936.htm

My opinion: Microsoft will win.

People will go towards Windows Live Office or whatever it will be called, because, hey, if you have Microsoft Office, you might as well use the simple (probably inbuilt) cloud version.

I've been a user of google for a few years, and it really isn't that good, other than for a search engine, and what comes of it (AdSense, Analytics, etc...). They're trying to take over the internet.

Not only that, but Microsoft is much more advanced to make the link between the computer and the cloud. They designed it, so they know what to do, and how to give all the features needed.

Edit: I bothered to click on the link. So, it'll be called Office 365?

You didn't have to click on the link. The thread title says it

Oh my god, I really am distracted today...

I believe that MS will win, too. They have Google beat in every department, except the internet search engines. But Bing is moving up the charts, too. It could only come at Google's expense.

But the cloud based Office, or any Cloud based products, I'm a little leery of. Most likely, I'm using some of them unknowingly, but I'd prefer to stay on the ground myself.

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Is it possible to have a discussion about a Microsoft product on this forum without it degenerating into a Google bashing thread? Just saying, it seems like every day someone has to remark how they refuse to use Google services because of {enter reason of choice}.

It's exhausting. I live next to two churches; I see enough of this paranoid hoo-haa offline.

You are soooo right Core.

But hey, who doesn't like finding faults at Google? I mean, they were getting wireless data with their Google Earth street view van or something, and now we find ever more negative things about them.

I suggest we never say the word google on this forum ever again, except when giving help to a member. Eg: Search google a bit, they have some good links.

Sorry if the Google fans get irate here, because their blind allegiance to oppressive information control is challenged.

All aboard the "I Love Google" train - first stop .. fingerprinting. Then, off to the biometric iris scans for your global IDs.

+1

I feel a flame war is going to start... STOP

I was in no way critizising you.

Anyway, as you said, end of debate.
Back on subject, this really will be a battle. Where will people go? Google, with their long living, free, products, or Microsoft, the people who made it all in the first place, with intergration with you already use?