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Microsoft has fired its latest salvo at Google, announcing a free web-based version of its Office software.Office 2010 will include lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote when it ships next year.
At a conference for business partners in New Orleans, Microsoft announced an early release of web-apps to thousands of testers later this year.
At the end of the year the company expects to release a proper public beta for the software and ship a final version off to PC makers in the first half of 2010.
if it's important ..it stays in my head or on a USB stick ..as a portable app ..or it's "nux" equivalent ..
yossarian was a sage ..
any flavour of "cloud" from whatever snake oil salesman company be they based at the plex or redmond is just a sysadmins nightmare and a hackers wet dream ..
this is the road to tears and the gnashing of teeth ..and in the words of the big man ..for those lacking teeth to gnash ..they will be provided .. you can even make your own teeth from the optical media upon which your data should have been stored safely ..instead of in the clouds ( where they will lie to you that it is safe ..until it's not ..and it wont be their fault ..re their TOS ) ..but your data will be hacked/compomised / mined /ad fodder /no longer 100% yours ..and just when home/ office storage and HD's were so cheap and machines were so fast ..
"cloud is better"
WHY ? for whom ..?