This has got to be the best news to pass by me today, saw this headline – fully expected the link to be warez or something nasty but no… a genuine, bona fide Microsoft link. Can’t get any better than that.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx
The download doesn’t work from Firefox (boo, but are we surprised?) so boot up IE before you start.
Microsoft’s .Net applications have failed to dominate the web world. Certainly there are alot of sites using it, and alot of very good applications built in it but the closed door, clip the ticket approach has blocked alot of interest. Add to that the lower hosting costs of PHP and you’re onto a winner with smaller enterprises.
Now Microsoft are announcing that their focus has moved away from the PC and onto the Web and that LiveMesh is their new baby. We’re yet to see what LiveMesh actually is but LiveSide define it as: