Microsoft Introduces 'Napa' Toolset For Cloud App Model 33
Nerval's Lobster writes "In keeping with Microsoft's 'all-in' strategy with regard to the cloud, Office 2013 incorporates a good deal of cloud functionality: SkyDrive is now the default storage selection for documents, for example, and users' work is synced between devices connected to the Web. In conjunction with that, Microsoft is now offering a 'Cloud App Model' that incorporates Web standards, meant for developers interested in building apps that bring functionality into Office and SharePoint. The toolset for building within this 'Cloud App Model' is codenamed 'Napa.' Among the potential uses: developers can build mail apps for Office, which add content and functionality to Outlook items based on activation rules, content apps for Excel, which add content and functionality to Excel documents, and task pane apps for Office, which add functionality to Excel and Word documents in a task pane adjacent to the document."
All that needs to be said (Score:3, Insightful)
Write speed of an average HDD: ~50MBPS
Upload speed of an average Internet connection: ~0.1MBPS
I'll pass.
ASPX is a web standard now? (Score:4, Insightful)
I like how "client side ASPX" is one of the "web standards" that 'Napa' incorporates. Since when is this proprietary Microsoft technology a "web standard"?
Re:Microsoft and the Cloud? (Score:2, Insightful)
But they have to fuck up Office as bad as they're fucking up Windows, it's part of their new take-no-prisoners strategy where they fire machine guns Rambo-style into their own feet until they've blown their legs off and dug their own grave.
I'd say that it would be another Linux renaissance as was had when Vista fell stillborn into the world, but with Canonical still on a collective LSD bender and cozy golden prisons (especially Apple's) being the hottest real estate in town...this could be a very bad time for open computing.