DISQUS

Gadget Sleuth · 5 months ago

It's a good idea, as Office has always been grossly overpriced really.

Bob · 5 months ago

Yeah, I'm sure MS forgot to think about that part. Fail.

RonnieS · 5 months ago

Buy some MS sell options now :-)

Osama A. Hashmi · 5 months ago

Paul, you might be forgetting that one of the fastest growing enterprise segments at microsoft has been their servers division... The office suite is no longer products, but documents ans ppts etc are fast becoming the currency of a much bigger ecosystem around them

I think its an essential strategic move... It's important to have more people making your currency, which will in time sell more copies of sharepoint server and Biztalk server etc $20k a pop that none of the web companies are a serious threat to... But those servers can't feed if the currency (docs) are strtuing to fracture around the web over different online apps

So the goal for the next 4-5 years may not be to sell the office suite (there are plenty of site-licenses to he sold to companies that prefer security and reliability over online) but to ensure that docx files remain in use by the masses, and to accelerate server sales growth

Kendell · 5 months ago

Office 2010 sounds interesting, but why wait for it to come out when you can use a product like eXpresso which already exists. I use eXpresso for business and personal needs and I LOVE IT! eXpresso provides real-time collaboration and editing control for shared Microsoft Office files in the cloud. Check it out at www.expressocorp.com