Monday 1 October 2007

Microsoft Docs or MsHo

Microsoft's strategy is finally being revealed. No real surprise for the large enterprise the strategy is around Sharepoint. Clearly MS is still intent on using Office to drive its technology into organisation in the same way that it did with Windows.

However, the mark of Ray Ozzie shows up in that "Office Live Workspace isn’t just an extension to Microsoft Office 2007,
but also third-party-developed office programs like OpenOffice,
StarOffice and more".There's also an indication of Groove's role in this online world - the offline bit.

» Microsoft finally unveils its answer to Google Docs | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
Office Live Workspace is, in Microsoft’s words, “a new web-based feature of Microsoft Office which lets people access their documents online and share their work with others.” It’s aimed at consumers and small-business users, not corporations who are interested in being able to access their documents anywhere — from any computer and any browser. In other words, Microsoft isn’t playing up Office Live Workspace as a head-to-head competitor with Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE). Microsoft is positioning its Microsoft-hosted SharePoint, Exchange and Office Communications Services (which it has now rebranded with as its family of “Office Online” services) as its GAPE competitors.

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