Microsoft Office Goes Web
Last week, Microsoft carved a niche for itself by having launched its new-fangled ‘Windows Live Framework’ as well as novel ‘Office Web Applications’ as portion of its subsequent Office version, which has been codenamed as ‘Office 14′, for having bridged end-user experiences, as far as PC, phone, and Web are concerned.
Ray Ozzie, main software architect of Microsoft, in keynote of his at ‘Professional Developers Conference’ of the company uttered that PC, phone, and web have all gone ahead with having become a portion of regular personalized computing experience of an individual. He said that the PC is adjusting to have become more and more relevant so as to have worked and centered on web.
Ozzie also said that PC is one of the unparalleled personal information, high performance management device. Through power of Web, internet is becoming a well-known meeting place for connecting, communicating, transacting, and sharing. With Web, phone, and PC having bridged together, they are much more valuable to the users in comparison with the situation when they are apart.
As portion of ‘Windows Azure platform and its Azure Services offerings’ of Microsoft, Live Framework was unveiled. As per David Treadwell, i.e. Microsoft’s Live Platform Services’ corporate vice-president, Framework is nothing but one of the ways for customers and developers for accessing Live Services. In fact, Treadwell has further elaborated saying that Live Services is portion of Azure Platform which goes on to work for connecting people, applications, and devices. It is a known fact that users possess data in loads of diverse places, and it is often tough to integrate these devices together.
The basic purpose of introduction of Live mesh SaaS, i.e. software-as-a-service by Microsoft is the simplification of process of integration of different devices. SaaS is around 6 months old. Due to Live Mesh, users can connect their personal computers as well as other devices, that too, with each other through internet. The developers can also avail of the facility of creating, building, and working with various applications which integrate on the ‘local client’, or in cloud.
Live Framework of Microsoft makes use of programming model and live operating environment which makes provisions for users to get an access to Live Services. It is, in reality, an open, a consistent, and an interoperable framework supporting Web, phone, and PC. All these statements have been uttered by Treadwell. Microsoft has also made use of ‘conference’ for announcing novel Web applications with regards to Office 14. As per the statements of Takeshi Numoto, i.e. GM (General Manager) for MS Office, users can communicate with one another due to these applications. Their convenience would literally know no bounds due to this technology.
Office Web Applications can be described as Microsoft Office Excel’s, Word’s, PowerPoint’s, and OneNote’s lightweight versions. Moreover, they are a portion of ‘Office 14′. Such applications can get accessed by having made use of standard browsers inclusive of Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox. Through this, users can create, access, share, and edit Office documents.
