(Not really) Crazy Microsoft Rumors: Facebook's new email to include Office Web Apps incorporation

It's the ideal opportunity for another (not really) insane Microsoft talk. This time, BFFs Facebook and Microsoft are the objective of one of my great source's tips. 

As an aspect of my responsibilities as a full-time Microsoft watcher, I get a ton of tips about Microsoft from clients, contenders, accomplices and even Softies themselves. Nonetheless, as far back as I worked for PCWeek over 15 years prior, I had it penetrated into my head that until the point that I could get three free sources - none of whom was continuing something s/he heard in a resound chamber - to certify a tip, I couldn't run it as a story. 

Nowadays, I see heaps of single-sourced tips being posted by bloggers and writers. In excess of a couple of these depend on a solitary, mysterious source, with no further identificationto enable perusers to choose whether a tip is probably going to be valid or not. No "as per a Microsoft accomplice who asked for secrecy." No "so says a client furious over the most recent goof, who asked not to be recognized." Not even a not so subtle "as per an individual who was not approved to represent Company X" (but rather did as such at any rate). 

This absence of attribution gave me a possibly not really insane thought. A year or so prior, enlivened by the "CrazyAppleRumors" people, I purchased the "CrazyMicrosoftRumors" space name. I let it pass. Be that as it may, I as of late repurchased it. Why not put the idea to utilize? 

I will dispatch a progression of periodic posts here on "About Microsoft," where I take a solitary sourced tip that I can't discover two other autonomous sources to confirm and run it as "gossip." I'm not going to do this with simply any old tip; I am will pick and pick ones where I have confidence in the tipster's batting normal as well as trust the tip bodes well. I will plainly mark these posts as "(Not so) Crazy Microsoft Rumors," so perusers know precisely what they're getting. 

(The principal post in this arrangement was about Microsoft perhaps handling a Zune HD2.) 

On the off chance that you need to send along any talk competitors, simply utilize the email frame at the base of my blog. All tips I get are viewed as secret, so don't stress over including your genuine name (in the event that you need to do as such). 

The present "talk" has to do with the up and coming Facebook declaration on Monday, November 15. Some are speculating the welcome just occasion should do with the dispatch of another Facebook's email offering (known as Project Titan). Titan, as indicated by the buzz, is anything but a minor redo of the current Facebook coordinate informing ability; it will be another full-included Web mail item like Gmail, Hotmail, and so on.

I have a source near Microsoft who said the Facebook November 15 occasion will, without a doubt, be centered around Facebook's new email item. So what makes the occasion conceivably intriguing for Microsoft, its clients and accomplices? As far as anyone knows, as per my source, the new Facebook email will incorporate Office Web Apps joining.

(Office Web Apps are the Webified variants of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that Microsoft makes accessible for nothing to buyers and as paid extra choices for its business clients.)

Microsoft as of now gives its very own Facebook + Office Web Apps blend, known as Microsoft Docs. By means of Docs, Office Web Apps clients can share their archives through Facebook with their companions. Be that as it may, my source says Facebook's declaration on Monday will make things a stride further by straightforwardly coordinating Office Web Apps access into the new Facebook email - much like Microsoft does now with Hotmail.

For Microsoft's situation, Hotmail clients who don't have Office introduced locally on their PCs or gadgets can in any case get to Office records through Office Web Apps mix. I'm expecting Facebook will offer a similar sort of access, if my tipster's snitch is valid.

"The Office group has been taking a shot at this for some time now," with Facebook, my source said.

As we probably am aware, on account of an ongoing Microsoft-Facebook lovefest occasion, Microsoft and Facebook are BFFs (despite the fact that Microsoft has consented to act like the longshot in the relationship).

What do you make of all the ongoing Microsoft-Facebook joint effort? Furthermore, would any Facebook clients - other than the individuals who work at Microsoft and need to keep Office significant and broadly embraced - care about Office Web Apps joining in Facebook Hotmail?

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