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Whatever Office Live is, it ain't the Web Office | |
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| Time: 00:10 EST/05:10 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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The power of Microsoft's branding is so great that slapping the labels 'Live' and 'Office' on a piecemeal bundle of rehashed services seems to have the whole world agog. The evidence doesn't justify the excitement. Today's beta of Office Live is a repackaging of various web presence offerings that Microsoft previously tried (and largely failed) to market under the bcentral brand for a number of years. Let's assume just for a second, though, that providing small businesses with an entry-level web presence really is a great platform from which to develop and launch the future of a new generation of web-native business productivity applications (I don't suppose it is, but hold that thought for just a few more seconds). Microsoft's problem is that it doesn't understand that delivering a service means a lot more than simply putting some software tools online; it means providing something that brings results. Microsoft should take a look at companies like WebSite Pros, who I wrote about last fall: | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at 2/17/2006 9:06:59 AM |
| Wait till v 3.0 of whatever they call it. MS may finally realize what a value added web service needs to be and what to call it. At this time v. 2.0 isn't there yet. I would like to see a true web Office program that includes the existing Office apps rewritten for the web and capable of fast downloads for use by travelers. The business apps in "Office Live", any of the three versions aren't very appealing. |
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