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Yes, there is an Office 2007 'kill switch' | |
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| Time: 09:35 EST/14:35 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Buried in a Knowledge Base article that Microsoft published to the Web on November 14 are details of Microsoft’s plans to combat Office 2007 piracy via new Office Genuine Advantage lockdowns. When asked last month whether Microsoft was planning to punish alleged Office 2007 pirates by crippling the functionality of their software in the same way that Microsoft is doing with Vista via reduced-functionality mode, Microsoft officials were noncommittal. But now Microsoft’s intentions are clear: Just as it is doing with Vista, Microsoft plans to incorporate what basically amounts to a “kill switch” into Office 2007. Office 2007 users who can’t or won’t pass activation muster within a set time period will be moved into “reduced-functionality mode,” according to Microsoft’s Knowledge Base article. | ||
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| #1 By 28801 (68.81.50.122) at 11/20/2006 6:33:32 PM |
| redde - a Latch by any other name. |
| #2 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 11/20/2006 7:39:40 PM |
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#1, and miss all that Office is really all about - compliant forms of collaboration and unified communications. I don't know if you've seen people and companies that have leveraged all that Office and all of its servers have to offer even really tiny companies - SharePoint Services and the Office and WSS SDK alone, offer a great deal of collaboration to any size company - add Exchange 2003/2007 and reporting services ported to WSS and businesses have an ability to look at data in real-time that is so rich, they become a lot more powerful and agile very quickly. When you begin to extend this even further with unified messaging features - even a few of them, like, Presence Awareness at the apps/desktop and Live Meeting [branded or not], and people get more done for less money and far less travel and preparation.
We've seen all our customers that begin to use even a small part of these tools become far more profitable very quickly and they spend a lot less money doing it. Open Office offers none of that in nearly as easy or inexpensive way. I'll give you a small real-world example - we have a vertical leader in a medical field - he lectures all over the world. We used collaboration tools available in Office to support distributed work between ourselves and his practice. We then used the platform to support the creation of a PowerPoint presentation that was moved to media services via Producer, but rather than send one stream we sent two and palyed two fields of sync'd motion video in the same web page. After students used this material, we next did a web cast to the student congress hall in Iran - yes, Iran. Pretty cool - reach out and into a largely closed country and reach students eager to learn new medical techniques. All using Office and its companion servers - that in this case, are all FREE of incremental fees. In this case, professionals using what is there - with a partner, doing what we do, were able to leverage the platform to do easily and inexpensively, what would have been very hard to do otherwise. The result - a lot more cooperation and connections between people that would not otherwise be possible. I reason that if we do enough of that sort of thing, we might just be able to not only add value, but prevent the kinds of nonsenes that result in wars. This was Iran, after all and personally, I'd like to see the planet skip another conflict. The week previous to this, we did very similar things with another group in Australia. |
| #3 By 13030 (198.22.121.110) at 11/21/2006 9:55:02 AM |
| #3: Meanwhile, the rest of the world just wants to create a document or spreadsheet... |
| #4 By 37047 (216.191.227.68) at 11/21/2006 10:05:56 AM |
| #3: Yes, MS Office has some very powerful features when used in conjunction with other MS technologies. Using Producer to create video that is synchronized with a powerpoint slide, for example, is very powerful, and useful, for a certain percentage of users. And I would not hesitate to recommend Office to those users. However, for those who just want to create a simple text document with some formatting, and convert it to a PDF for distribution, create some simple spreadsheets, etc., then Office may not be the best solution for them, especially if they are on a budget and not using other MS technologies like Exchange or Sharepoint. In those cases, alternatives like Corel WordPerfect or OpenOffice / StarOffice might be better solutions for them. It comes down to what you plan to use the office software for. No solution is the best one for everyone. |
| #5 By 37047 (216.191.227.68) at 11/21/2006 10:10:47 AM |
| Oh, and in case anyone is getting ready to call me an OpenOffice lover, and a hater of all things Microsoft, I should mention that I am a Microsoft Office Power User, and have used it since Word 2.0 was the new kid on the block. I probably won't upgrade to 2007, though, as it doesn't have any new features that I would take advantage of, so I'll likely stick with Office 2005. In the near future, though, I may give the alternatives a run, to see how they compare in the realm of what I use an Office Suite for. |
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