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TheMonkey replied

26 May 2006, 10:57
Originally posted by Pondlife

The original question was really about whether anyone had any experience of it for hosting a business website and whether you were likely to become an advertising board for other companies.

I wouldn't bother. £20 for hosting for a year. £0 for a template from www.oswd.org and 30 minutes adding some content is better!
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Pondlife replied

26 May 2006, 10:12
The original question was really about whether anyone had any experience of it for hosting a business website and whether you were likely to become an advertising board for other companies.
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TheMonkey replied

26 May 2006, 10:07
Originally posted by HankWangford

http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnin...rel_q1_06.mspx
Revenue of 9.74billion, seems ok to me

Yeah but people are not upgrading as much as they used to. If you look, you can see the prices rising to keep the revenue stable.
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HankWangford replied

26 May 2006, 08:12
earnings

Originally posted by TheMonkey

This is Microsoft trying to turn themselves into a services company as they have finally realised they can't make lots of money by selling boxed software.

http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnin...rel_q1_06.mspx
Revenue of 9.74billion, seems ok to me
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Bovvered replied

26 May 2006, 06:53
Hey! I think I'll store my VAT return on a Live server! Not.
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Bovvered replied

26 May 2006, 06:52
I can see the bank I'm at hosting all their documents on Google's Writely server. Not.
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TheMonkey replied

25 May 2006, 17:53
This is Microsoft trying to turn themselves into a services company as they have finally realised they can't make lots of money by selling boxed software.

It will just about work, but will be about 10 miles behind google.

People have got to STOP relying on services and move back to the boxed software model. The entire IT industry is going to collapse with this "sustained cash" model.
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Pondlife started a topic M$ Office live

25 May 2006, 12:08
M$ Office live

Anyone tried this?

http://officelive.microsoft.com/

Supposedly free hosting.... Not sure about the "Office Live Basics is offered at no charge through an advertising-supported model. Microsoft is allowing a select number of advertisers to place small, unobtrusive ads on a handful of member pages. Please know that our advertisers' content will not appear on the Web site you create for your own company. " though.

What do the panel think?
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