[AccessD] Office 365 Developer Program

[Darryl Collins]

Sounds like they need to drop the 1980's way of doing business and come up with a new and better model for charging customers.  Seems crazy to let something like licensing hold this back.  There is no stopping the tide so the sooner they come up with a new model the better - for both them and us.

Hmmmm....



-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Friday, 8 May 2015 11:37 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office 365 Developer Program

It is worthy of noting that LibraOffice will be, very shortly, offering, realtime internet collaborative inter-active document/spreadsheet etc functionality. It will be desktop based but they also plan to have a cloud based version as well. Right now collaborative desktop apps will incur no extra costs. It should be interesting to see how this new tech works. Unfortunately, LibraOffice does not have a viable database replacement but that will come and apparently Microsoft doesn't either. ;-)

IMHO, the one big problem with converting products from proprietary to OS or desktop to web based, it is hard to establish if a user is appropriately licensed. That is what is holding everything back.

Jim
  
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Simms" <marksimms at verizon.net>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 4:52:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office 365 Developer Program

This is total B.S. They've had YEARS now to port the coding to Javascript as well as the object model.
I don't think this new CEO is much better than Balmer.
I'll bet Google "beats them to the punch"....and that will end the Office dominance by MSFT.
They really deserve to "go down".
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> Yes... If you are talking the 'universal' online apps, they are very 
> thin on features and have no VBA functionality.
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