Models, actors love Microsoft Office Live

Here's good news for geeks – Microsoft parties are apparently prime places to pick up models. On Monday night, a blogger for CNET showed up at Microsoft's Manhattan launch party for the new Office Live Workspace. She says that while hoping to find people willing to talk about "whether Office Live Workspace really is a formidable answer to the Google Docs that I've found myself using pretty frequently," she was instead confronted with a bevy of models and some Hollywood folks - namely, Jeremy Piven (pictured here) and the creators of HBO's "Entourage." Computers set up with Live Office were largely ignored in favor of free drinks, she says, and: "Logos for the new Web-based software were everywhere, but the hotties in attendance didn't seem to care, making a couple of us bloggers wonder if maybe they'd been hired to show up and look good." (Link via the Daily Weekly.)

Comments

This is absolutely NOT a formidable answer to Google Docs. It's not even remotely close to the same product!

With Google Docs you can create/upload, edit, and save all sorts of different files.

Office Live Workspace is essentially an online storage service with some viewing capabilities (welcome to 2001). For instance, I just uploaded and opened a very simple Word document. Not only was I not able to edit it, the formatting was all messed up. And this was a *native* document! It's not like I tried to view a OpenOffice file.

And you'll notice that Google never has star-studded launch parties for their products. Mostly, I think, it's because their products actually do something useful.

MSFT could not be more far out of touch and behind the times if they tried.

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