Microsoft: Office won't go online
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| "What must be scary to Microsoft isn't the idea of wholesale replacement
| of Office [by enterprises], but that there are lots of people in
| an organization who just don't need Office and who can get along
| with something like Google or OpenOffice.org," Helm said. "If that
| catches on, enterprise might drop their Office site license. That's
| when it becomes a serious threat."
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http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/12/msftoffice/index.php
Having failed with Live, they think they can survive without evolving (not
even 64-bit architectures).
Related:
Microsoft Office Live migration is adding insult to injury
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| On January 29, Microsoft posted to the Office Live blog a status update
| re: the migration. The news isn't good.
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| Office Live logoBeta testers are still potentially "months" away fromb
| eing migrated to the final version of their Office Live services.
| Functionality like backup and restore isn't going to work until
| their accounts are migrated. And Microsoft will give testers only
| a 24-hour heads-up when they are set to be migrated. During that
| 24-hour period, users won't be able to make changes to their
| Office Live sites.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=243
Office Live: Better Off Dead?
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| Last month I killed Office Live in an act of self defense, after
| repeated access problems and attempts to move my domain to another
| registrar. Judging from the comments to that post, there's an Office
| Live killing spree going on. Not surprisingly, Microsoft wants to put
| an end to the wanton killing.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/office_live_better_off_dead.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/ybsz2o
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