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Story: Microsoft prepares to take Office online
Yep - this web thing will never catch-on ;-)
Hotmail, Google Docs, Yahoo Mail, Google Mail, Google Maps, Facebook...there's a whole raft of online apps out there which people already rely on. When I saw your headline "Why the rush" I thought it was a sly dig at Microsoft for missing yet another Internet boat but now I see you're being serious.
Yes, some online apps are just not reliable or practical and offline still makes a lot of sense for some uses. But what does not make sense is how much dawdling Microsoft has done around online productivity apps and for no other reason that to avoid harming the lovely wad of cash they get from Office - about 40 percent of their revenue I believe. Trouble is - that the alternatives now exist anyway and all Microsoft has done is drag its heels and highlight another example of why its position as any kind of innovator is looking increasingly thin.
andrewdonoghue
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