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Microsoft Office Heads For The Cloud

Mar 5, 2010
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InformationWeek: Microsoft Office Heads For The Cloud

Report of a speech by Microsoft honcho Steve Ballmer about plans for making cloud versions of Office applications more accessible, more functional and gradually migrating the brand to the cloud.


“Microsoft is betting big on the cloud, and nowhere will that be more apparent than in changes coming to the company’s staple Office franchise, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.

‘This is the most mainstream thing for Microsoft’ in terms of cloud computing, Ballmer said during a speech at the University of Washington, in Seattle.”

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