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Thursday, January 12, 2006

MS Office not dead, yet

WebProNews has an article on the premature reports that Microsoft Office is going the way of the dinosaurs any time soon.

The threat posed by Writely, and similar services, is given a lot of attention in the article. But:

Most Office installations aren't attributed to sole practitioners like me. They're site licenses bought by businesses large and small. Each of these businesses has a security-conscious IT manager who is concerned about putting the company's intellectual assets at risk. The notion of creating sensitive internal documents on a web-based services will undoubtedly send tremors of terror along the spines of these already-paranoid executives.

I briefly touched on security issues in one of my previous articles about Writely:

Writely doesn't indicate what technology it uses to make the documents secure. Remember, as with any computer system, compromise is always a concern. Law offices and anyone who is bound by law or ethics to keep their documents secret should take this into consideration. (Getting to know Writely.)

The fact that people are even discussing the death of Microsoft Office in relation to Web 2.0 services, whether premature, or on the far off horizon, should give the people at WordPerfect something to think about. This could be a real opportunity for WP to step up and take up the slack in the area of web services.

• Posted by: Marie Carnes at 03:52 PM
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