MicrosoftBill Doll wrote:
"To the second point, when people use Office on the web we believe it’s because they want to use Office (and the expectations that go along with that) and have chosen to use it through a browser because of personal preference or situational need."
That's right, Bill Doll. My "situational need" is the fact that I can't afford to shell out a one time $99 a year or $9.99 a month for an Office 365 subscription. I don't even have a bank account to even have a debit card for that matter to charge a subscription fee to. If you all weren't offering a free online version of Office, I'd be using Google's Online Apps and Zoho's Online Apps and moving all of my Word documents to both of their services. I know how much you all would just love that. I still have Office 2007 that I now run on Windows 10 thanks to a free license that I got from you all in exchange for attending a launch party for both Windows Vista and Office 2007 back in 2008, but Outlook 2007 doesn't support exchange active sync or the new Open Authentication Login Protocols (OAuth) that most webmail providers now use, so I now just use outlook.com since it now has an online tasks feature to compete with Google Gmail's. In fact, I remember the only reason why you all even started offering a free version of Office Online was because Google was kicking your dairy aires in this department and stealing your users in the process by offering the same services for free. Hard to compete with free. If Google hadn't started the online working in the cloud revolution in first place or a tasks feature in Gmail, I'm pretty sure that consumers would still be purchasing Office on DVD's for a one time fee like in the old days and there wouldn't be no tasks feature in outlook.com either. Brand it what you want, but I'll still refer to it as "Office Online" and "Office Online Free Web Apps."
