Live Documents update: Sounding better all the time:
So, as it turns out, we are actually making Microsoft Office itself more powerful in many dimensions – we are not attempting to « kill Microsoft Office » in any way…we are simply leveraging the fact that for many users, their existing version of Office is good enough on the productivity dimension and we are layering on the collaboration dimension on top of this.
(Via The Open Road.)
Une initiative en provenance de l’Inde, du cofondateur de Hotmail, incidemment. Qui non seulement propose une version en ligne de la suite Office, ce qu’offrent déjà plusieurs sites (Google Doc, Zoho, ThinkFree…), mais aussi de « upgrader » les versions actuelles de MS Office (2000, XP, 2003) afin de leur donner certaines fonctionnalités de la version 2007, gratuitement !