Microsoft Launching Online Version of Office Software

Morshad published 04 Mar 2008, 06:35 in main - 239 views

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In a half-step into the growing realm of Web-based computing, Microsoft is announcing a service that allows users to extend their use of the company's dominant Office software into the online world.

With some fanfare -- a stunt scheduled for today in New York featuring actor Jeremy Piven and scripts of HBO's "Entourage" -- the software giant said it was opening to the public a test version of its "Office Live Workspace," a service that allows users to save Office documents such as memos and spreadsheets online so that they may be accessed by other users connected to the Web.

"We are responding to the most urgent needs of the 500 million Office users. They want to access their documents anywhere," said Guy Gilbert, a senior product manager for Microsoft.

The venerable software giant's embrace of the Web, however, is relatively tentative.

Microsoft's fortune has long rested with the sales of software that users have installed on their own computers, not computing over the Internet. Increasingly, however, as more computing is done online, the company's dominance has been challenged, and it has sought to move to the Web.

News source: washingtonpost.com

Tags: Microsoft, Office, Software

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Shaon
06/15/2008
I like windows Office 2007

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