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They do save your files so you can work on them later. I dont see the problem, do you worry about all the emails that are saved in your inbox on your web based email service?

He meant they may save them on their servers and thus available for them to look at.

So I guess you don't use web-based email either because a company stores whatever messages you send or receive.

I only use web based free mail like hotmail and yahoo for spam catching and mailing lists. I would NEVER store or use my real important and/or private emails on such an open to data mining lack of privacy account...eesh!

I don't use web-based email for anything I need kept secure. Are you that niave that you think anything stored on a 3rd party server can't be spied on? It's happened numerous times before, and Google doesn't even hide the fact that it spies on the content of your email. You should read their TOS.

Microsoft, Google, and everyone else jumping on the "web apps" bandwagon seem to think that just making these apps will guarantee a market for them. No one except maybe people in the 3rd world with their $100 hand-crank laptops will ever use these apps, and they may use something made by some other companies or use open source anyway.

1. Any business or project worth a damn will use their own secure servers, with their own collaboration software. Who is Google and MS kidding, they think any business wil host their sensitive documents on 3rd party server!?

2. Consumers will continue to use the desktop versions, including the FREE Open Office.

How much money is Microsoft and Google throwing away on these web-app projects? I guess when you have billions to throw around it doesn't really matter. But it might have been better if M$ spent a little more effort on improving Windows, rather than cloning everyone else's apps and interfering in their markets.

Nothing is 100% secure. I know my email can be spied on if some hacker wants to thats just one of the games of life, the same can be applied to my checking/savings account at the bank.
So you have your own servers but what about the receiving end of your email, do you worry that much not to send a email based on what email service (or their own server) is used on the receiving end?

Sure this web based document app are not for serious business work but its a nice little convenience for some folks, everyone is diffrent. And if someone want to spy on my anthropology report then go ahead i have backups so do your best (some creationist hacker marks my report up about how im going to hell bet yet he/she want to break into peoples accounts and steal info just great )

Been saying that for years now. With every Vista delay that rolls on by, just makes me laugh at all these half-ass Microsoft craplets they keep pumping out in an attempt to glom onto all things computing.

Wow.
You want people who write these craplets to write Vista kernel instead, do you?
Maybe mobilize game developers too?
The more people the better kernel they'll write...

No, I want Microsoft to regain their focus, which they've lost. Jack of all trades, master of none, that should be the new slogan at Microsoft.

All internet communications are monitored anyway, for specific keywords and phrases and all those kinds of 'goodies.' Same with your telephone lines.

Neither do I since they never format what I'm typing properly

For doing any real word processing, they're useless. But they're extremely useful if you just want to jot things down and you're not at your computer. Think of it as an online scratch-pad with some formatting instead of a full featured word processor.

They're very useful if you want to collaborate with friends to produce a document. Also I believe that it has an unlimited list of 'un-dos' which some may find useful. (Taking about writely) Though it's lacking a lot of formatting options that you'd normally have.

Office live is something different. It isn't a web based web processor (however much it might sound like it).

Same. Much easier just to have it installed.

Totally agree, aside from colaboration, i don't see the need for a web based word processor.

Well it depends what you mean available 24/7. The idea here is that you can edit files 24/7 even whan at a different PC or a PC with a different operating system all without installing a thing. Sure you need an internet connection but how often will you be at a pc that doesnt have an internet connection? Even roaming on a laptop is quickly becoming more and more viable in many places.

I too prefer desktop applications for speed (I'm on a slower connection) and stability (so far they havent been all too reliable yet) but they certainly have a place. This (and similar doc editors) combined with some online storage could become extremly useful one day and they will only become more powerful.

Then I'd just use remote desktop. Or email it to myself beforehand.

You mean pireted version of MS Office?


You'll start installing MS Office? How long it will take?


You can just post it to some forum. it's easier


Do you like installing LICENSED Office on all PC where you need to use your files?

Open Office.

agreed. works is essentially free for everyone/anyone anyway and nobody uses it because it is crap. just the whole "how do I get in and out of Word with this" issue makes works as unintuitive and lame to work with as Star Office or other freeware waste of time apps. so, let MS give it away for free. no one was buying it anyway.

In some ap[plication, yes. Many home users would no longer have any need for office. But i imagine this software would be a lot simpler and less powerful, so businesses and certain consumers would still use office.

Most buisnesses would have to to still use Office. Most home users usually go w/ Word+Excel combo, but I imagine a LOT of them pirate the software or have a friend come and install it for them.

When I was doing techie work I don't know how many friends and family members asked me to install Office for them, and thought for some reason because they had a computer that they were entitled to the software for free. I'd refuse and have to explain licensing to them and let them know what their options were. At $150 you can get Word and Excel which is what most people need anyway.

At least Microsoft will generate ad revenue from this and it will sway people who would normally have just pirated the software.