New Hotmail Integrates Office Features 90
angry tapir writes "Microsoft is set to begin rolling out the latest enhancements to its Hotmail (warning: interstitial ad) web mail service, with an aim to reduce clutter and make it easier to send photos and handle Office documents. Microsoft is making a Web-based version of Office available from within Hotmail's Web interface that allows use of Microsoft document formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote."
Wannabee fools. (Score:5, Interesting)
Open Document (Score:5, Interesting)
I usually use Linux and I want to avoid lock-in. Microsoft Office supports the OpenDocument format, so how about these Microsoft services? And with OpenDocument I mean the Oasis format, not OpenXML (which I don't trust to be suffiently interoperable).
Losing (Score:3, Interesting)
Heh. Once again we have MS playing catch-up to Google. I thought Hotmail was turned into Windows Live or something like that anyhow.
Re:Wannabee fools. (Score:3, Interesting)
From a security standpoint, I have often wanted to be able to generate something like a one time password when logging in through a public computer.
Re:sigh... (Score:3, Interesting)
Google Docs is still pretty atrocious at handling any formatting quirks of Office file types, and given that MS Office is still the most popular suite to format things in (for better or worse), Hotmail could have a strong selling point above Google in this regard.
*Disclosure* I use Google Docs almost exclusively for my academic and personal needs.
Late, yes... (Score:3, Interesting)
One thing, OneNote (Score:2, Interesting)
IFF, Microsoft offers the OneNote program online (for free) and manages to integrate it in a sensible way to Hotmail, I might be sold.
Currently I am using Google Notebook (I was lucky to get an account before they closed the subscriptions) to organize my life. I have really tried to use other online alternatives (like Zoho) but they just do not feel right.
On the other hand, the times when I have used OneNote, it has *really* impressed me. That is a really good program.
Re:ActiveX? (Score:2, Interesting)