{"id":447,"date":"2007-12-11T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T13:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2007-12-11T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T13:45:47","slug":"live-workspace-can-someone-explain-the-offline-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/447-live-workspace-can-someone-explain-the-offline-story.html","title":{"rendered":"Live Workspace: can someone explain the offline story?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I showed the Asus Eee PC<\/a> to a friend the other day. She liked it, but won’t be buying. Why? It doesn’t run Microsoft Office (yet – an official Windows version is planned). <\/p>\n

It reminded me how important Office is to Microsoft. No wonder it is fighting so hard in the ODF vs OOXML standards war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Therefore, if anything can boost Microsoft’s Web 2.0 credentials (and market share), it has to be Office. I’ve not yet been able to try out Office Live Workspace<\/a>, but it strikes me that Microsoft is doing at least some the right things. As I understand it, you get seamless integration between Office and web storage, plus some extras like document sharing and real-time collaboration. <\/p>\n

I still have a question though, which inevitably is not answered in the FAQ<\/a>. What’s the offline story? In fact, what happens when you are working on a document at the airport, your wi-fi pass expires, and you hit Save? Maybe a beta tester can answer this. Does Word or Excel prompt for a local copy instead? And if you save such a copy, how do you sync up the changes later?<\/p>\n

If there’s a good answer, then this is the kind of thing I might use myself. If there is no good answer, I’ll stick with Subversion<\/a>. Personally I want both the convenience of online storage and the comfort of local copies, with no-fuss synch between the two.<\/p>\n

That said, I may be the only one concerned about this. When I Googled for Live Workspace Offline, the top hit was my own earlier post<\/a> on the subject.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: offlice live workspace<\/a>, microsoft office<\/a>, odf<\/a>, ooxml<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I showed the Asus Eee PC to a friend the other day. She liked it, but won’t be buying. Why? It doesn’t run Microsoft Office (yet – an official Windows version is planned). It reminded me how important Office is to Microsoft. No wonder it is fighting so hard in the ODF vs OOXML standards … Continue reading Live Workspace: can someone explain the offline story?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,55,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-microsoft","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}