{"id":9931,"date":"2009-07-14T15:54:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T19:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Microsoft-To-Offer-Free-Online-Version-Of-Office"},"modified":"2009-07-14T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T19:54:33","slug":"microsoft-to-offer-free-online-version-of-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=9931","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft To Offer Free Online Version Of Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after Google announced plans to venture into the operating system business, Microsoft is firing back with plans to offer a free version of its popular Office software suite that will run on the Internet. Although Microsoft didn\u2019t mention the competition from Google during the announcement, many analysts see this latest move from Microsoft as part of the company\u2019s strategy to protect one of its most profitable businesses against Google. Sheri McLeish, an analyst with Forrester Research, said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after Google announced plans to venture into the operating system business, Microsoft is firing back with plans to offer a free version of its popular Office software suite that will run on the Internet. Although Microsoft didn\u2019t mention the competition from Google during the announcement, many analysts see this latest move from Microsoft as part of the company\u2019s strategy to protect one of its most profitable businesses against Google. Sheri McLeish, an analyst with Forrester Research, said <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=9931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9944,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931\/revisions\/9944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}