Microsoft announces online version of Office 2010

[john]

Details here.

[Rik]

I don't give Google my data, I am not going to give it to MS either.

[john]

That's really the problem with web based applications Rik, fine in theory but if individuals don't trust them then companies, especially the financial sector, are going to be very wary.

[Rik]

We've seen too much data loss by companies and Govts for me to ever want to trust my data with someone else, John. I can just imagine the conversation if my bank details got stolen after using an online app. 

[Glenn]

See http://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=15149.0;topicseen

[zappaDPJ]

One day, somewhere deep within the bowels of Microsoft, someone will have a revelation and Microsoft will integrate their spellchecker into IE8. That would be a thousand times more useful than Office on the net imho... well for the three of us using IE8 it would  

[Rik]

 

Four on a good day, Zap.

[zappaDPJ]

There's a 4th?  Let them be outed, come out of the closet. In this day and age it's probably legal and nothing to be ashamed of! 

[Rik]

I think they are waiting for a court case to establish legal precedent.

[zappaDPJ]