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To try them: http://office.live.com/?docsf=1 http://office.live.com/?docsf=1 They are pretty impressive. A bit slow and far from feature complete, but definite
by snprbob86 16y ago
To try them: http://office.live.com/?docsf=1 http://office.live.com/?docsf=1
They are pretty impressive. A bit slow and far from feature complete, but definitely in the same league as Google's suite. If Microsoft keeps their foot on the gas, they may be able to block Google's assault on Office.
EDIT: I heard that they would have support for rendering 100% of offline Office's documents/features. Is that still true? Would those parts of the documents simply be read-only online?
- SingAlong 16y agoif they are to implement such a feature, I guess they'll put up a "download IE to use Office Live offline" or some msg of this kind. Like how they made silverlight :)
- shrikant 16y agoThanks for the link - CNET made it impressively difficult to find in that damn article! Did a quick trial run: Word, Excel seem alright, but my primary use-case - OneNote sync'ing - is finally addressed :) Now I don't have to futz around anymore with the slightly clumsy (but honestly kinda nice) implementation of Live Mesh to keep my OneNote notebooks sync'ed between work and home machines!
- robryan 16y agoI'm getting a "Complex Document: Optimise editing in Word" type message, suggesting they might not be completely confident in 100% of the offline features yet?
- robryan 16y agoAnd on a large document it is a lot less usable currently, not just within the document but the interface to, seemed quiet snappy on a short document, IE and FF seem about the same, bit faster in chrome (about the usual amount). I'm surprised their not using this to push silverlight actually, seems like a good way to prove it's worth.