www.cio.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\nBallmer<\/span><\/strong>:So we are embracing Software + Services, Cloud Computing as hard as anybody. By the time we finish our Professional Developers Conference this month, I think you\u2019ll have to say that there is nobody out there with as wide a range of Cloud Computing services as Microsoft, including, dare I say it, Google …<\/span><\/p>\nCIO:<\/span><\/strong> Steve, I guess the $64,000 question from a lot of people\u2019s point of view is, is there going to be an Office for the Web, something that really competes head on with Google Docs, Google Apps? <\/span><\/p>\nBallmer:<\/span><\/strong> .. I think what people want is something as rich as Microsoft Office, something that you can \u2018click and run\u2019, if you are not at your own desk. Something that is compatible, document-wise with Microsoft Office and something that offers the kind of joint editing capabilities<\/strong> that is nice in Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Will Microsoft Office offer that? Yes! Standby for details in the next month. <\/span><\/p>\nCIO:<\/span><\/strong> So, in the backend of Microsoft R&D, are there people beavering away at versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc, that are purely web based? Or, is it always going to be this hybrid? <\/span><\/p>\nBallmer:<\/span><\/strong> What does it mean to be purely Web based? Do we want them to be as only as powerful as \u2018runs in a browser\u2019? No. We want software that is more powerful than runs in a browser. Does that mean we will not have some neat stuff that does run in the browser? No. <\/span><\/p>\nWe think you\u2019ll actually want the full power of Word, Excel and PowerPoint – and you\u2019ll want to be able to get that simply. But, if you just happen to be in an Internet cafe kiosk and you want to do some light editing, perhaps we need to have a way to support you in that as well, inside the browser. .. <\/span><\/p>\nIn another, in response to a question about Office Live, he said:<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cOffice Live has a few things left it needs to do. Number one, and probably most important, is to make sure that people using Office have greater ability to collaborate with one another<\/strong>. We have some of that today with [Office Live] Workspaces, as well as that we\u2019ve got SharePoint; we can do more and some of those things will be better than the other alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\nNumber two, is when we do Office Live, it has to be true to Office; you\u2019ll need to be able to have full Office documents and programs and share them.<\/span><\/p>\nNumber three, we have to make it so that – most people use Office most of the time from a single machine. But if you\u2019re away from your desk, at a cafe, a kiosk or your school library, and you don\u2019t have Office, you\u2019ll want to be able to do something quickly; we have to make sure you can get it easily, stream it down, put it in a browser, something like that there\u2026 details coming in a few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\nI’m not going to write here what I think they are likely to announce.\u00a0 More sensible to wait a little longer.\u00a0 It will be interesting though to see what is available immediately, and how much is just vaporware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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