Comments on: Microsoft Office Is Coming To the Cloud http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Schumi http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151075 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:45:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151075 Microsoft has been trying to ridicule and minimize Google since a long time. The truth is that they are really afraid about Google development and they know that Google has a better competitive position in time. It is only a matter of time before the inevitable happens …

]]> By: webanalystopia Why Google’s Building Chrome OS? http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151074 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:15:50 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151074 [...] onto the web more and for longer periods of time. In fact, it’s rumored that Microsoft Office is coming to the Cloud very soon. Google Docs changed the game, and Microsoft [...]

]]> By: The Google Revenue Equation, and Why Google’s Building Chrome OS http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151073 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:19:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151073 [...] onto the web more and for longer periods of time. In fact, it’s rumored that Microsoft Office is coming to the Cloud very soon. Google Docs changed the game, and Microsoft reacted.Google hopes for the same reaction [...]

]]> By: The World Condensed » Blog Archive » The Google Revenue Equation, and Why Google’s Building Chrome OS http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151072 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:16:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151072 [...] onto the web more and for longer periods of time. In fact, it’s rumored that Microsoft Office is coming to the Cloud very soon. Google Docs changed the game, and Microsoft [...]

]]> By: The Google Revenue Equation, and Why Google’s Building Chrome OS « I.T News & Stuff http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151071 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:34:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151071 [...] onto the web more and for longer periods of time. In fact, it’s rumored that Microsoft Office is coming to the Cloud very soon. Google Docs changed the game, and Microsoft [...]

]]> By: The Google Revenue Equation, and Why Google’s Building Chrome OS | zbTech.net http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151070 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:23:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151070 [...] onto the web more and for longer periods of time. In fact, it’s rumored that Microsoft Office is coming to the Cloud very soon. Google Docs changed the game, and Microsoft [...]

]]> By: The Google Revenue Equation, and Why Google’s Building Chrome OS » SteamWorx http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151069 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:20:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151069 [...] onto the web more and for longer periods of time. In fact, it’s rumored that Microsoft Office is coming to the Cloud very soon. Google Docs changed the game, and Microsoft [...]

]]> By: The Google Revenue Equation, and Why Google’s Building Chrome OS | AskCharly http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151068 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:51:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151068 [...] onto the web more and for longer periods of time. In fact, it’s rumored that Microsoft Office is coming to the Cloud very soon. Google Docs changed the game, and Microsoft [...]

]]> By: The Google Revenue Equation, and Why Google’s Building Chrome OS | TechDozer.Com http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151067 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:01:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151067 [...] onto the web more and for longer periods of time. In fact, it’s rumored that Microsoft Office is coming to the Cloud very soon. Google Docs changed the game, and Microsoft [...]

]]> By: The Google Revenue Equation, and Why Google’s Building Chrome OS | I R Here http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151066 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:00:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151066 [...] onto the web more and for longer periods of time. In fact, it’s rumored that Microsoft Office is coming to the Cloud very soon. Google Docs changed the game, and Microsoft [...]

]]> By: Office Web Applications | CloudAve http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151065 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:26:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151065 [...] Microsoft Office Is Coming To the Cloud [...]

]]> By: Cloud Based Microsoft Office by Rashidi Barnett : Browser as a Platform http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151064 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:42:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151064 [...] Gigaom.com Microsotf Office is Coming to the Cloud Category: UncategorizedTags: Cloud > Microsoft > SlideRocket > [...]

]]> By: Microsoft Office w internecie - Google będzie miał drugiego rywala « Wiktor Cegła http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151063 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:11:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151063 [...] cloud computing, Microsoft Microsoft przenosi Worda, Excela, PowerPointa i OneNote do internetu. To drugi, po Zoho, konkurent dla Google Docs. Dzięki temu popularne programy: edytor tekstu, [...]

]]> By: Rashidi Barnett http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151062 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:39:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151062 @kayzen – I agree with your comments. My thought is that speed to market is contingent on what you focus on. You have smaller companies such as Zoho and SlideRocket coming to the market,and they seem to be nimbler. And naturally they wouldn’t be concerned with datacenters and backend support for their existing products. But their focus is solely on build applications that run in the browser. And in the case of SlideRocket, just a product for presentation.

I do have a concern though, the application might not be available for Google Chrome? I can understand that there might not be a big enough base to develop for Chrome, but would they even consider it? Considering they view Google as a competitor.

]]> By: kaiyzen http://gigaom.com/2008/10/28/microsoft-office-is-coming-to-the-cloud/#comment-151061 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:23:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=26868#comment-151061 People are quick to jump on MS for the “lagging” in moving to web based solutions. You have to remember a couple things when saying they are late to the game here.

One, their aspirations for the cloud run mutch deeper than just delivering applications via the browser. MS has the largest developer community and wants to enable not only their applications as well as all of the outside developers solutions (Azure).

Two, remember this is the Professional Developers Conference, not the Miscrosoft Consumers Conference. There are thousands of add-ons and integrations for Office applications. They are pre announcing here b/c that is what the conference is all about, empowering the developer. Third parties need to see what MS is doing and play around with functionality ahead of time to figure how they fit into the mix.

Three, if you look at Office’s install base you cant just crank out a web based Office solution and serve it up. They have been spending that last few years and billions of dollars building out their datacenters and backend to support this effort which is spearheaded and powered by Azure. Just picture what kind of infrastructure would be needed to support just 1% of Word or Excel’s install base around the world.

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