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Finally! An Office cloud service for iPad worth using
For some reason, 2012 is shaping up to be the year of Cloud-based Windows 7 and Microsoft Office offerings, including scarily bad services such as OnLive Desktop, which was a media darling in January based on nothing more than demos. The real product is all but unusable - you lose your connection when you switch to other apps, for example, and you can't use the iPad's native keyboard. Plus, the company violated Microsoft's Windows 7 licensing terms, offering an essentially illegal desktop-as-a-service product. (That issue has since been resolved.)
By Galen Gruman | 12 April, 2012 20:12
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tuCloud criticizes Microsoft, OnLive for virtual desktop licensing debacle
Less than a week after Microsoft put its foot down on OnLive's virtual desktop solution for allegedly violating its licensing standards, tuCloud capitalized by releasing its own product, taking a few jabs at both OnLive and Microsoft in the process.
By Colin Neagle | 17 March, 2012 02:48
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Microsoft: OnLive, cloud provider of Windows and Office, is improperly licensed
OnLive, a company that recently began offering hosted Windows and Office software remotely from its servers to iPad and Android tablet users, is in violation of Microsoft licensing rules, according to a Microsoft official.
By Juan Carlos Perez | 10 March, 2012 04:28
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OnLive Desktop brings you one step closer to ditching your notebook for the iPad
The scoop: OnLive Desktop Plus (iPad app, plus service), by OnLive, Inc., about $5/month.
By Keith Shaw | 01 March, 2012 04:42
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OnLive's train wreck: Office on the iPad
Demos, like appearances, can be deceiving. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, one of the media hits was OnLive Desktop, a service that provisions a Windows 7 desktop environment that includes Microsoft Office 2010 to the iPad over an Internet connection. For many, the idea of being able to run the full Office suite is very appealing, given some of the limitations of the iPad's native office productivity tools such as Apple iWork suite (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers), Quickoffice, and Documents to Go.
By Galen Gruman | 07 February, 2012 22:11
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