Sudhir Murthy

Monday, 5 July 2010

Windows Phone 7 is supposed to simplify life, Kin is meant to amplify it ? and MS scraped KIN ?

And here’s an interesting read - a view on what’s happening with Windows Phone 7(WP7) and why did MS scrap KIN.

Office web apps

Playing around with office web apps today. Very pleasing move from Microsoft which doesn't require that you purchase a desktop license to use office web apps. Yes, the personal edition is FREE, like free beer!. Although Microsoft Office desktop edition software leads the industry by far from it’s competitors, Microsoft’s cloud strategy was still a bit behind Google and IBM. With the public release of Office web apps, MS has definitely poked it’s nose in. We will have to wait and watch as to how people react to it to make it a success. I personally feel it will add a lot of value to the already successful Office suite and it’s definitely well posed to take on Google docs!

Three things i love about Microsoft Office Web Apps.

1] Usable from hotmail, integration with sky drive (25 GB online storage). More to follow soon with the ability to attach web app documents (Word web app, Excel web app, Powerpoint web app,OneNote web app)

2] Multiuser collaboration.

3] Tested and ready for Google chrome browser (so, it sucks less, ahem, well atleast not as much as IE 6,7 and 8).

Some links to dig further.

1.Microsoft Office Web Apps - http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/web-apps/office-web-apps-overview-FX101903123.aspx

2.Developers catch the action here - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/officewebapps/

Tuesday, 29 June 2010

A new start..

Following a massive inactive period, where i found myself hanging upside down at the ocean shore of life wondering if i could set sailing to reach ‘a’ paradise.., i nicked a speed boat and hit the water again!!