Embracing and Extending Microsoft Office 14
ReadWriteWeb writes "In an interview with ex-Excite founder and current JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus, Richard McManus explores the Web Office and how JotSpot aims to 'embrace and extend' some of Microsoft's office products. Kraus explains how JotSpot went about extending Excel's basic functionality in three ways: sharing spreadsheets, every row is a wiki page, and the ability to mashup data from your own hard drive with data on the Web. Although JotSpot won't challenge Microsoft's office software supremacy with a web-based office suite, expect Google to rise to the challenge of building an interconnected suite of networked office applications."
In other words... (Score:5, Funny)
This is like adding another layer of Microsoft on top of a layer of Microsoft.
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MS Office is already incompatible with itself. Have you ever tried to open an old (say, '97) file in Office 2003? Ironically enough, Open Office is more compatible with old MS Office formats than modern MS Office is -- that's why my company has to use OOo, because we get a LOT of documents from people who are still using 10-year-old software.
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This isn't new. (Score:2)
Borland's Turbo Assembler was more compatible with MS' Macro Assembler than Macro Assembler itself.
Nothing new under the sun...
Microsoft is the world leader in incompatibility. (Score:3, Interesting)
Not only that, each version of MS Office is incompatible with itself.
I don't normally use MS Word, but I've heard stories, and recently it happened to me. I worked for several hours on an MS Word document, and MS Word gave an error message that said there was something wrong with the file, that only it had touched. MS Word refused to go further.
Luckily I had read about the solution. I opened the MS Word file in Open Office and saved it in MS Word form
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All the time. It works great.
Extending question... (Score:4, Interesting)
For those people that can't or don't want to install OpenOffice, it would be nice if they could just install a small plugin.
No idea if microsoft provides any kind of framework for this sort of thing outside its own development staff.
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[sarcastic]Yeah, how hard can that be?[/sarcastic]
It's all in the name... (Score:2)
Embracing and Extending Microsoft Office ..... (Score:2, Funny)