punjabi_khota Posted July 13, 2009 Posted July 13, 2009 Microsoft Office to go online — for free The last version of Office didn’t include a free online version. The next one will. It’s too early to say Microsoft has checkmated Google in online documents – the latest version of Office hasn’t shipped yet. But the sleeping giant in Redmond has clearly woken up to the Internet threat. Get this: Microsoft – the king of paid software – will announce today that it is going to give a version of Office away for free online. Both the online and desktop versions are scheduled to arrive in the first half of next year. Yes, you read that right. The latest version of its ubiquitous productivity software, dubbed Office 2010, will come as both a piece of software you can buy for your computer, and as a service you can access in your browser. [uPDATE: Microsoft says it will support the Firefox and Safari browsers as well as IE.] For free. From Microsoft. More at... http://bigtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/07/13/microsoft-office-to-go-online-for-free/
punjabi_khota Posted July 13, 2009 Author Posted July 13, 2009 I guess with the announcement of Google's OS, all the gloves are coming off, and the Redmond giant is going to fight back hard. I don't see many people opting for current freeware office apps if they can have MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint for free. Advantage: MS.
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