Microsoft detailed its new Office suite today. Microsoft Office 2010 looks like a nice evolution of the product line and a great improvement to collaborative efforts. But most exciting is the Office web apps that where announced.
Google has offered a free web application suite for two years which basically works as a very basic version of Microsoft Office. This web app hasn't caught on with many businesses because it is so feature light but it has given Microsoft something to think about, web applications. Microsoft is moving some of the functionality of Microsoft Office online. Great news for us consumers but a real headache for Microsoft. The Office software is a big revenue generator for Microsoft so what happens when they start offering services free online? Do business forgo a full Office program purchase? This is the balancing act Microsoft must now figure out.
I love the idea of moving applications into the cloud computing space. Microsoft, if it pulls this off right, could be a large competitor in the cloud computing market. The early details of the software suite look promising and with Google moving into the operating system space, I hope Microsoft can figure out its online strategy correctly. It is going to have to.
Office 2010 Web App
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