With free solutions for productivity coming from the likes of Open Office and Google Docs, Microsoft seems to be feeling the heat, and thus have now come up with Office Live Workspace. This new tool, being apart of Windows Live, will allow users to access online tools to view, but not edit, files such as Word documents and Excel spreadsheets.It makes sense, since there will probably be no chance in hell that Microsoft will give up its favorite hoe for free while it can make the easy money pimping (forgive the lame reference). However, keeping it free has its price. While a beta is only going to start later this year, Microsoft has supposedly designed the program to support ads.
Whether this read-only tactic will actually work is still debatable. Microsoft has a firm grasp on the offline office productivity side, but will they have enough time to grab it online as well? Stay tuned to Devicing for updates.
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