Microsoft has just launched the Office Live that they have announced before in their cloud storage, Skydrive. You’ll need to have Live/Hotmail account to access Office Live and after that you’re set to go.
Well, as you can see the shortcut to create office documents such as word and excel are available at the right side of the screen. It’s not pretty but it works.
According to blog post, you also can also upload document (drag and drop if your browser have Silverlight), edit the document, collaboration, read the docs in smartphone and etc.
The UI is exactly like the Office 2007 and onward with ribbon and etc but with less feature. So you have have no problem to get familiar with Office Live. It’s pretty slow in my testing and saving the doc is not working in Chrome (not sure why, probably my case only). It works perfectly in Firefox though.
Google Docs still provide seamless experience in creating document online to me, but Office Live deserve the credit to have it’s Office suite online considerably fast. Whoever the best wins!
At MIX 10 event ended last week, Microsoft has released and showcased many features and information about the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone that many think Microsoft can’t come up with. You have seen how cool and pretty iPhone or Android smart phone are, but Windows Phone 7 series is on par if not better on certain things.
With so much great stuff and 3 smartphone prototypes in display, it almost made me think that this phone is almost ready for mass production in 4-5 months. Yes, I wish it to come sooner, but that’s not just going to happen soon. It has has long way to go before this phone hit the street scheduled end of this year.
What is Windows Phone 7 anyway? That’s one ‘tough’ question. Lucky us, that Engadget has created Windows Phone 7 Series complete guide, sort of post that you’d love to read if you eager to knows more about this phone, like I do. It’s rather long and ‘living’ post, meaning that it will get updated as the new things coming in.
I’ve been reading it couple of times (warning : lots of technical jargon), but you know, it’s kinda hard to summarize it on one short post. And plus the source from other articles that I read before, I’m quite lucky to come out with my own version of “idiot guide to Windows Phone 7 Series” . Don’t take this as definitive guide though, sometime, the longer the better.
It’s just piece of my understanding about this great phone, that you can refer to, in case interviewer at any job interview or some cute babes asking you, do you know what is “Windows Phone 7 Series”
Windows 7 Phone is not the continuation of Windows Mobile. It’s totally brand new platform similar to Zune HD (that we don’t have it here). It will have all modern smartphone common features and function, such as huge screen with multitouch, deep integration with social networking, closely interact with cloud apps, apps as valued added for the phone, focus on rich and multimedia content and etc. Hardware and software will be closely integrated so the smartphone can run on it utmost performance.
No UI (user interface) customization allowed on Windows Phone 7 Series. So forget the likes of HTC Sense. All phones will have similar looks and feels regardless of the phone manufacturers.
No copy and paste feature as confirmed by Microsoft , although another article pointing out the feature will be available as upgrade once the phone release to the market
Brand new Windows Phone Marketplace – Haven’t seen or use the old one, but reading the review, that it is going to be good one.
Windows Phone Marketplace is also going to be the only source of application for Windows Phone 7 Series, sort of Apple iTunes. However, Microsoft do provide an exception to large enterprise who want to deployed their own application directly to the device, the detail will be unveiled later.
No Multitasking – No actual multitasking in the sense that you familiar with. Built-in apps can run on background, but not third party apps. But this third party apps that cannot run on background is not totally killed, should called it “half backgrounded”.
Games is one of the key feature in Windows Phone 7 Series, so it is expexted that Microsoft will bring XBox 360 games into this phone. The games can be played on cross platform device ranging from phone, PC and Xbox. For instance, if you stop the games at one point at phone, you can resume the games at the same point in XBox. Cool huh? The development for cross platform games also has been simplified with introduction of XNA Studio 5.
Microsoft alone won’t made Windows Phone 7 Series your sexy next phone. So there comes the partners with their app ready to be ported to this phone.
Microsoft paraded 3 Windows Phone 7 Series smartphones during MIX 10, which is obviously attracting the likes of Engadget. It is quite unexpexted since there are already 3 prototypes of Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone right now, as there is still 8-9 months to go before the phone is opened for sale.
Except Samsung (the most left), which is the hacked version of i8910 HD, the Asus and LG smartphone specifications remain unknown. Can someone persuade Microsoft to lend this phone please?
This comes pretty soon for Windows Phone 7 series followers. Engadget has posted several exclusive high res images showing 3D games being played on the prototype of suppose to be Asus Windows Phone. The games are developed using the new XNA Game Studio 4.0, a powerful game development tool for Windows Phone 7 Series, Xbox 360, and Windows PC.
After the Windows Phone 7 series announcement last month, so far we have seen the cross platform game playing, and the recent demos of 3D games is just another evident that Microsoft is serious in integrating games into Windows phone and all it other platform. Love to see more Microsoft, bring it on! Click for more images.
Microsoft Courier offer different design and feels from iPad, the most sought after device which had just launched couple of days ago. It does looks like book (yes, real book); my first reaction upon seeing this device. Interestingly as demoed by 2 videos below, Microsoft Courier will support finger touchscreen as well as stylus pen.
The concept previewed are pretty interesting. For instance, it shows how you can do one task on one of the screen, and do something else on the other screen, with both task are within your sight. It can move/copy the object from one screen to another and vice versa as well. Although it is just basic multitasking, but it’s happen on different perspective that we used to.
