{"id":79,"date":"2010-06-08T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/?p=79"},"modified":"2010-06-08T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T14:46:00","slug":"microsoft-office-documents-on-skydrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2010\/06\/08\/microsoft-office-documents-on-skydrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Office Documents on SkyDrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the college where I work uses Microsoft&#8217;s Hotmail system for student email accounts, I thought I&#8217;d take a look at the just released service that allows you to put your Microsoft Office documents in the cloud via the SkyDrive service (check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsteamblog.com\/windows_live\/b\/windowslive\/archive\/2010\/06\/07\/office-is-now-live-on-skydrive.aspx\">Windows Blog for an official announcement<\/a>). Logged in to <a href=\"http:\/\/live.com\">live.com<\/a> in Firefox, I created a Word document in my browser with the intent of sharing it with some team members. Here are some quick problems I ran into:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Silveright continues to be crashy. After I logged out of <a href=\"http:\/\/live.com\">live.com<\/a> and tried to view the document via the public URL I created for it, it crashed each browser I tried it in (Firefox, Chrome, and IE). I uninstalled and then reinstalled Silverlight, which seemed to fix the problem (I shouldn&#8217;t have to do this, right?) I&#8217;m not sure if you need to have Silverlight installed before you can view any Office Docs in this new service, but if you do, then that requirement\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>When I tried to download and view a document in Word 2003 (I&#8217;ve got the .docx converter plug installed already), I got an unreadable mess.<\/li>\n<li>The formatting I set up in the editing mode got screwy in the online viewing mode (lines that I had pushed to the right with a single tab stop were suddenly right justified)<\/li>\n<li>I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to to share the document in a way that others could edit it. Maybe you can give rights to edit to people but then those people have to create Live.com accounts to edit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>I think I&#8217;ll be sticking to Google Docs for a while for collaborative editing of docs.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the college where I work uses Microsoft&#8217;s Hotmail system for student email accounts, I thought I&#8217;d take a look at the just released service that allows you to put your Microsoft Office documents in the cloud via the SkyDrive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2010\/06\/08\/microsoft-office-documents-on-skydrive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,161,162,163,164,165],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cloud-computing","tag-hotmail","tag-live-com","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-office","tag-skydrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}