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#588482 - 01/18/13 05:34 AM Re: New Office [Re: yoyo52]
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Muhahahaha

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Originally Posted By: yoyo52
But I don't want to have to depend on an internet connection to get my documents or my music or whatever.
That's's what would worry me. Even if you can save the documents locally and not to the cloud, if you didn't have internet access would you be able to launch the app to access them.

My understanding of the whole cloud thing is that the app is not stored locally but loads via the internet.
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#589322 - 01/29/13 06:45 PM Re: New Office [Re: yoyo52]
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Staples is pushing it at a discount with a PC purchase, so just for giggles I went to the MS website and had me a leetle chat with one of their Office doods.

If you're a SMB or larger and you need lots of collaboration among employees in and out of the workplace, and want web conferencing, cloud storage, and file sharing/editing, web and Exchange hosting all bundled, it's a decent solution. But there aren't any big improvements or new feature sets to Word, Excel, PPT, etc. In fact, if I were to subscribe, I'd still need Office 2011 on my HD as a client for those apps.

Btwn Office 2011 Home Edition, iCloud, Carbonite, Network Solutions, and GoToMeeting — I've got all the same functionality, albeit, not bundled.

Meh... Nuttin' to see fer me. Just another example MS over-thinking irrelevant doodads.
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#589428 - 01/31/13 04:17 PM Re: New Office [Re: steveg]
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What?

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Neither Office for Mac or Apple's own iWork apps have been updated in years (beyond stupid little security fixes and full-screen support) and it ticks a lot of people off. It's amazing to me that such staple applications have been ignored for so long—especially in the case of MS Office.
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#589429 - 01/31/13 04:34 PM Re: New Office [Re: MacGizmo]
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Neither Office for Mac or Apple's own iWork apps have been updated in years
How far can they take a word processing program though. It's so bloated as it is.
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#589442 - 01/31/13 07:38 PM Re: New Office [Re: Reboot]
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No shˇt! (heh heh... you're trick, dood). There are days when I wish I never upgraded from Office 2004.
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#589443 - 01/31/13 07:43 PM Re: New Office [Re: steveg]
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Nothing comes of nothing.

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If they'd only make it possible to sort alphabetically from a list!

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#589447 - 01/31/13 08:24 PM Re: New Office [Re: yoyo52]
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Is this thing on?

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Don't make fun of me! laugh

I've never owned Word or Excel

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#589628 - 02/02/13 05:37 PM Re: New Office [Re: steveg]
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So yesterday MS released Office 2011 for Mac v. 14.3 via their update utility. Obviously prepping it for those who will use it as a client for the subscription.
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