Comments on: Google killed the desktop star http://www.flipcorp.com/en/read/blog/net-stuff/62.html Flip Media is the largest interactive agency in the Middle East with offices in Dubai, Bahrain, Qatar (Middle East), Bombay, Trivandrum (India), Leipzig (Germany), London (UK) and Cape Town (South Africa) providing online advertising, website design, streaming broadband video, ad server tracking, digital marketing, online advertising, online media buying and interactive campaigns. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:50:15 +0000 http://flipcorp.com/cms/?v=3.1 by: Joe http://www.flipcorp.com/en/read/blog/net-stuff/62.html#comment-5772 Mon, 14 May 2007 10:10:15 +0000 http://www.flipcorp.com/en/read/blog/net-stuff/62.html#comment-5772 Online will always have a risks regardless of how sexy or great the offer is. I run 4 personal websites, and I personally download .SQL backups daily because of past experiences with lost backups, or an power failures which might torch your data to hell. MS offerings are corporate wide and are usually extremely well integrated with other platforms. In addition, with the release of Office 11, the interoperability APIs are available to the public to code online and off-line compatible components/applications. It's just up to people to take initiative. Just look at the calendars offered by Infragistics for .NET development. It's a full world of development waiting for someone to grasp it. You're blaming MS? No. Blame the lazy consumer because open source was always the people never the corporation. Just a thought :) Online will always have a risks regardless of how sexy or great the offer is.

I run 4 personal websites, and I personally download .SQL backups daily because of past experiences with lost backups, or an power failures which might torch your data to hell.

MS offerings are corporate wide and are usually extremely well integrated with other platforms. In addition, with the release of Office 11, the interoperability APIs are available to the public to code online and off-line compatible components/applications. It’s just up to people to take initiative.

Just look at the calendars offered by Infragistics for .NET development. It’s a full world of development waiting for someone to grasp it. You’re blaming MS? No. Blame the lazy consumer because open source was always the people never the corporation.

Just a thought :)

]]> by: Mazen http://www.flipcorp.com/en/read/blog/net-stuff/62.html#comment-4817 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:10:05 +0000 http://www.flipcorp.com/en/read/blog/net-stuff/62.html#comment-4817 Adobe are smart enough to capture the trend; Adobe Remix (online basic video editing tool like windows movie maker) and Adobe Photoshop online version will limit the competitors' (flickr, and google's picassa) chances since people will go for their natural preference. When will Microsoft ever acknowledge the impotance of free tools and open online tools? If they even had a concept of developing an online basic version of Office, I am sure google would not have offered it. Adobe are smart enough to capture the trend; Adobe Remix (online basic video editing tool like windows movie maker) and Adobe Photoshop online version will limit the competitors’ (flickr, and google’s picassa) chances since people will go for their natural preference.

When will Microsoft ever acknowledge the impotance of free tools and open online tools? If they even had a concept of developing an online basic version of Office, I am sure google would not have offered it.

]]> by: Dinesh Lalvani http://www.flipcorp.com/en/read/blog/net-stuff/62.html#comment-4600 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:33:37 +0000 http://www.flipcorp.com/en/read/blog/net-stuff/62.html#comment-4600 I tried using the new office online calendar system, and you just have to compare it to GCal and see how simple and intuitive Googles offering is in comparison. The big problem with microsoft is that they constantly need to bloat the software when over 95% of the users just want the basics to work and work really well. I tried using the new office online calendar system, and you just have to compare it to GCal and see how simple and intuitive Googles offering is in comparison. The big problem with microsoft is that they constantly need to bloat the software when over 95% of the users just want the basics to work and work really well.

]]> by: dotone http://www.flipcorp.com/en/read/blog/net-stuff/62.html#comment-4599 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:58:58 +0000 http://www.flipcorp.com/en/read/blog/net-stuff/62.html#comment-4599 Same here Magnus, at <a href="http://dotsandlines.com" rel="nofollow">d&#38;l</a> we've been using Google Apps for Domains as part of our Office 2.0 setup. As for syncing, We sync our Outlook calendars with GCal, and use the POP version of Gmail for emails to sync and guess what, all that is in sync with our mobiles as well. A three way syncing. All this syncing dancing is just what the third tier has caused, the online versions, since we're not online all the way and everywhere. The day 3G prices goes lower the Middle Tier(local desktop software) will die. Or let alone fully WiFi covered cities. Although we've been using the whole Google stuff, I tell ya what, I still have love for MS Office and I wanna' wait for the "live" version of their offerings. Same here Magnus, at d&l we’ve been using Google Apps for Domains as part of our Office 2.0 setup. As for syncing, We sync our Outlook calendars with GCal, and use the POP version of Gmail for emails to sync and guess what, all that is in sync with our mobiles as well. A three way syncing.

All this syncing dancing is just what the third tier has caused, the online versions, since we’re not online all the way and everywhere. The day 3G prices goes lower the Middle Tier(local desktop software) will die. Or let alone fully WiFi covered cities.

Although we’ve been using the whole Google stuff, I tell ya what, I still have love for MS Office and I wanna’ wait for the “live” version of their offerings.

]]> by: Magnus http://www.flipcorp.com/en/read/blog/net-stuff/62.html#comment-4598 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:36:06 +0000 http://www.flipcorp.com/en/read/blog/net-stuff/62.html#comment-4598 We've been using the free Google Apps for Domain for quite a while it's a really neat service. I assume the for-pay service is going to increase that value considerably. I like the net as much as anyone, but the one thing that worries me about this Google thing is that I still want local copies that I can work on if I don't have net access. That's not something they offer, right? And off-line version with automatic sync. We’ve been using the free Google Apps for Domain for quite a while it’s a really neat service. I assume the for-pay service is going to increase that value considerably.

I like the net as much as anyone, but the one thing that worries me about this Google thing is that I still want local copies that I can work on if I don’t have net access. That’s not something they offer, right? And off-line version with automatic sync.

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