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Soft-Letter, December, 1999

Predictably, the press and analyst community jumped all over Microsoft's Nov. 9 announcement of Microsoft Office Online, a subscription version of Office 2000 that runs remotely over a Windows Terminal Server connection. Zona Research's reaction was typically hyperbolic: "When the world's largest software company announces that the world's leading personal productivity suite is available through the world's most significant access method, a major inflection point has occurred."

Microsoft has also lined up an impressive collection of ASP partners, resellers, and OEMs who plan to develop future collections of services based on Office Online. Microsoft Office vice president Steve Sinofsky pointed out that most of these partner offerings will consist of "software...

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