Star Click-to-Run: 'Streaming' Microsoft Office 2010?
Linked by Kroc Camen on Fri 6th Nov 2009 22:30 UTC
Microsoft Click-to-Run is a new technology Microsoft are introducing to allow you to test out Office 2010 quickly and easily, by literally streaming the app to your computer from the Internet into a virtualised space.
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zlynx
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2005-07-20

Java webstart apps are actually one of my favorite things about Java. Most things about Java make it a nasty client-side experience but portability and web start are two good things.

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StaubSaugerNZ Member since:
2007-07-13

I like Java and Webstart too. The points I was trying to make were: that it is a pain for 'operational deployment', as is almost all client-side systems (hence the trend to the web despite the less rich experience. Having a streamed version of Office won't save you from this pain. Also, the streaming of apps isn't some new miraculous Microsoft technology, there is a precedent with Webstart (and others) - so early adopters ought to dismiss the marketing hype and maintain some skepticsm (it will be better for themselves to do so).

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