Comments on: Microsoft is going to release a web-based version of Office.

By: brudinie

brudinie — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:46:57 +0000

David Hanson – you are absolutely wrong.
I use Ubuntu and I can’t use ITV player.
I can’t use it because it is powered by Silverlight and Moonlight will always be 1.5 versions behind Silverlight.
This is the situation you end up in when Microsoft dictate the standards of a pseudo web technology. They have done nothing except demonstrate an OS agenda throughout their history and you have to be totally blind to think that they don’t have one behind Silverlight.
Cloud services don’t need Silverlight. HTML 5 and JIT compilers for javascript will completely negate the need for Silverlight.

By: David Hanson

David Hanson — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:18:20 +0000

Brudinie – Your last statement is missing the point of what the future of cloud services will be. In the future you operating system is likely to do very little and instead all your apps/data will be delivered via the cloud.

Therefore Microsoft are fully aware that making Silverlight ubiquitous is vitally important. Expect to see it on many many different platforms.

By: Brudinie

Brudinie — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:56:06 +0000

Microsoft have an operating system agenda. Therefore, they will never develop a truly cross-platform version of silverlight. Flash will run on more platforms because Adobe doesn’t have an os-agenda.

If you are quite happy for Microsoft to keep their monopoly alive then I feel sorry for you. I tend to find that the M$ silversh1te fan boys are the kind of people who don’t take web standards seriously and also browse with IE6 or IE7 (sad). M$ sliversh1te fan boys would love it to be pushed out to all users via windows update (regardless of the anti-trust implications). You want this because you are too lazy to learn how to be a WEB developer- instead you want to be a M$ developer and turn the internet into a M$ platform.

Feeding monopolies is wrong- end of story.

By: towner

towner — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:29:39 +0000

I totally agree with the move to web-based content server for these simple reasons: The control of the updates to the product, in so many ways, is kept under controlled. Eliminates the needless call in from user who are clueless. Second, I see it as a secure method of monitoring those who may try to hack or modify the program. Those days will be gone as these folks get permanently barred from the use of these products.(It’s tandem to a digital death sentences)

By: Sakui

Sakui — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:36:34 +0000

I’m sorry, no offense, but I like OpenOffice with windows xp or Openoffice/Koffice with Kubuntu.

I will not bash Microsoft down, but I have a choice not to use their products. Other users should do the same. You are not *required* to use M$’s products.

Stop feeding the worm, it will die.

By: Stephane Rodriguez

Stephane Rodriguez — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:54:33 +0000

Bollocks.

At best, it would be an Office-like application running in a browser window, not a web version of Office. But for this to be called that way, it would have to read/write Office file formats. That means years of work. And even worse, that means redo all the work that third parties have done already (zoho, thinkoffice, google docs, …)

When that is done, there is the attention to the details. Microsoft usually derails their competitors by saying things like “oh, you can’t be possibly using (insert competitor name here), it does not fully implement our file formats”. I fail to understand how that logic would not also apply to a simple Office-like application running in a browser. A good time to learn if Microsoft were being hypocrites.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:32:41 +0000

It would be a no brainer if M$ doesn’t have a desktop Office suite. Now they not only have it but also count on it to be a cash-cow. It’s a big dilemma, I don’t know how they’d get out of it.

By: Abdurahman

Abdurahman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:37:11 +0000

Well, you are inspiring me to study about this.

Thanks for the idea, maybe i will write it on my next post..

By: Emil Protalinski

Emil Protalinski — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:21:25 +0000

My response: http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/06/02/asilverlight-office-is-possible-but-not-feasible-for-now

By: Martin Wells

Martin Wells — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:09:18 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. And it’s strikingly similar to google longer term strategy (be the cloud, monetize the rain).

Silverlight + Live = Windows in the Cloud