Here Comes Streaming Office
The following is a link to the InfoWorld Website:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/24/Microsoft-to-offer-Web-streamed-Office-to-combat-Google-Apps_1.html
It is about MS thinking of offering “Streaming” Office apps.
I have seen “Streaming” apps before and they immediately caught me as an exciting idea for Office Developers. The following comes to mind:
1. Delivery of Access apps free of desktop configurations
2. Ability to offer “Streaming” apps or docs from within SharePoint in a way that looks like a true “Web-Based” App
3. My only question is whether it is possible to “Sand-Box” the “streamed” environment and offer the users access to the “Streamed” environment for things like file stores (SP anyone) or even for “Streaming” access to SQL servers independent of the desktop environment
Regardless, I think this is a VERY positive development for Office Zealots.
Dick