Posts Tagged with ‘microsoft-office’

Today we are seeing yet another move of Microsoft online as the company finally realized it can actually sell its own products online in a dedicated store belonging to the Redmond giant itself. So yesterday we witnessed the debut of Microsoft Store in the US after the idea of an online store had been tested in the UK, Germany, and Korea.
The store offers customers to buy just about everything - from Windows Vista and Microsoft Office to Xbox 360 games [...]

It is invariably entertaining to watch Microsoft trying to ensure some online presence for itself when all such attempts look mostly like the company is the last to realize internet is actually a serious business and decides to do something to catch up when others are already heavily competing in the field.
The current Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles is a great example of this trend with yesterday’s presentation of Windows Azure, the attempt to get to the cloud [...]

Over the last few years we've seen the rise in popularity of Open Source software solutions. As this concept has crept across the Internet, it has left the confines of geekdom and begun to gather mainstream traction. People and businesses everywhere are finally recognizing Open Source software's potential for cost savings and ease of use.
Many people I speak with offline about Open Source seem to think it is a brand, when in fact it is much more a philosophy [...]

For those who have been longing to somehow access desktop Microsoft Office documents online through Google Docs, there is now a new service known as DocSyncer, which does just that.
Currently available as a public beta, DocSyncer offers users the ability to synchronize their Office files with a Google Docs account. In just a few steps, anyone can begin having the documents on their computer automatically uploaded (and periodically updated) to their online Google Docs accounts, to be accessed from any [...]

Happen to be a fan of free open source software? How ‘bout Open Office? Pretty useful suite of software, right? Indeed.
But what if you’re equally enthralled by things Web-based? You like what Zoho’s got. You may admire what Google has done thus far. Wouldn’t it be nice to have the best of both worlds? Open source software for use online?
Enter, Ulteo. A company that adheres strongly to the basic mantra stipulated by Torvalds and Tux, Ulteo has exercised its [...]

Today, Google Blogoscoped has announced that the mobile version of Google Docs is now available to users of the online office suite.
Last month, it was discovered that there were mobile-designed pages available with a link leading to docs.google.com/m, but at the time the URL resulted in a 404 error.
The Google Help Center has posted that the only devices officially supported are the iPhone and Blackberry devices while only mentioning for owners of other mobile devices that "a good rule of [...]

Google Apps has been far more successful than Microsoft could have imagined, which I am sure is why their reaction to Google's enterprise agenda was less than impressive.
Now, Microsoft seems to have realized the benefits of the web, finally bringing its Office Suite online with Office Live Workspace, which is currently running in beta to a limited number of people.
With Google Apps, Zimbra (recently purchased by Yahoo!), and Zoho having already built an online following, is it too late for [...]

More IBM news today. Perhaps the company’s doing some much-needed catching up in the PR dept?
The company has announced the delivery of Lotus Symphony – free of charge. Should one applaud? Should one care?
I don’t know. There’s a good deal of truth to the free-equals-good argument. Free software is a wonderful thing. It gets a lot of people producing things and enjoying things already produced who usually wouldn’t be able (due to financial constraints). But there’s also truth to the [...]

Today, it was announced that Yahoo! has decided to purchase Zimbra for $350 million in cash.
Zimbra's product line includes AJAX-based e-mail, a calendar, contact management features, as well as additional mashups available through add-ons called Zimlets. With the acquisition of the open source office suite, Yahoo! has now stated that it can "leverage the strengths of Yahoo!'s advertising platform and Yahoo!'s content network and tightly integrate it into Zimbra using Zimlets."
With this one move, Yahoo has now entered into the [...]