Nope, I guessing it will be a part of the Office2010 roll-out. Somehow Dreamspeak is also a part of this, which has trial software and training. I think I heard the live versions will be free to schools. Don't know how "rich" of an application these will be. Haven't looked at googled docs to have a good comparions. Guess I need to do some more homework on the next snow day. Speaking of such, we still have a few more loads left...
Murray From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Frerichs, Chad Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 12:27 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] what about l...@edu Does the pitch say when they are releasing their live versions of those products and will those be free to schools? ________________________________ From: Murray Gafkjen [mailto:mgafk...@clay-everly.k12.ia.us] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 12:26 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] what about l...@edu They are releasing their live version of word, powerpoint, onenote, and excel. They currently have something called workspaces which sharepoint will replace this summer. Skydrive is also in the mix (25 gigs of storage). I haven't completely taken the plunge, so I'm still going by their sale pitches. Thanks, Murray Gafkjen From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us [mailto:info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us] On Behalf Of Frerichs, Chad Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 12:20 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] what about l...@edu Murray, I looked at that before. Do they have actual online editors for documents, presentations, and spreadsheets like Google Docs? I thought it was just storage as far as the document part went. Thanks, Chad Frerichs ________________________________ From: Murray Gafkjen [mailto:mgafk...@clay-everly.k12.ia.us] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:25 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] what about l...@edu Been looking at the material for Microsoft's l...@edu offering. What the addition of Sharepoint Live for next year, it's a tempting offer. We have a .com we use for our school's web site, so we would not have to entangle our k12.ia.us with the routing. They say it's free, and will remain free, but it is still Microsoft. They have an easy feature to turn off chat, (with google, it is still a struggle). Just throwing this out there... Murray Gafkjen Clay Central Everly We have snow for sale-at affordable prices.
