I liked the way it leveraged (at the time) some pretty cool technologies like WebDAV and Dynamic HTML (DHTML) and even more so, I liked the way it tied into Office. And with that tie-in I saw a big new value, which was long overdue for the crowned king of office productivity
When I wanted to edit a document on my iPad, Box suggested that I could use Office 2 HD . Not only does Office 2 HD work with Box.net , it works with SharePlus
Recently Google announced the acquisition of QuickOffice - a “Cloud” based office productivity solution known for its ability to provide better than average Microsoft Office file format support and cross-device support
Paper is NOT going away In 20 or 30 years if we have a truly paperless office (and a perhaps a flying car ) then we have done a truly great thing...The stats bear this out with this post on The Paperless Office . My Request to Steve -- Call me
With over 125 million SharePoint users and a goal to reach 500 million with the next release of Office (aka Wave 15 ) From Jared Spataro’s keynote at SharePoint TechCon in San Francisco a few weeks ago The goal is to get 500 million people to the point where they can "get work done, together" Jared also said they want to leverage the 1 billion Microsoft Office users
There are a couple of factors at play: Microsoft is driving SharePoint adoption through its dominance of the desktop with Office. Since SharePoint is sitting with licenses in hand at many organizations, IT is installing it willy-nilly
And if you have to comply with a look and feel, or need to create complex documents across the enterprise, you might be forced to use Microsoft Office that really doesn’t handle these types of workloads that well
Some of these are (unfortunately) still in use and are quite complex to process correctly, as their complexity has grown over the years: yes I'd talking about the Microsoft Office legacy formats :) I worked for some time with the Apache POI project that works at implementing parsers for theses old formats and I couldn't believe how complex and undocumented these were
There I could unscramble a maelstrom of text-strings that pass for: (1) knowledge-seeking aspirations (user queries) and, (2) the top-of-mind approximations for how those user/consumers could ever hope to capture the treasures buried by a corpus of 118K MS Office files
The goal of a paperless office is probably just that … a goal
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