Tag: microsoft_office

  • Are IBM, Google and Sun ganging up on Microsoft?

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    I see IBM are now jumping into the free Office software arena by launching IBM Lotus Symphony. IBM Lotus Symphony is a free download from the IBM site (registration required). Up until now, Microsoft’s competition in this space has come from OpenOffice and Google – neither of whom have a strong track record in the…

  • Google's Office 2.0 steps up a gear

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    Sam Schillace (didn’t he play for Italy in the 1990 world cup?) over at Google has just posted that Google are going to roll out the long predicted Google presentation software application this summer. This is technology which they bought in via their purchase of Tonic Systems (a San Francisco-based company that provides Java presentation…

  • Microsoft Office? Oh yeah, I remember that…

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    Via the Google Blogoscoped site comes news of Google’s integration of Google Spreadsheets and Docs into Gmail. Now, anyone receiving an Excel spreadsheet as an attachment in Gmail will be offered the option to open the Spreadsheet in Google Spreadsheets (see below). Similar functionality has yet to be added for Word documents but, no doubt,…

  • Google launch attack on the Office Enterprise market

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    Google has released Google Applications for Your Domain – you can sign up and check it out over at http://www.google.com/a. Google Applications for Your Domain currently allows you to run Gmail, Gtalk, and Gpages (a web publishing tool) through your own domain. One immediate advantage of doing this is that Gmail’s spam filters seem to…

  • Are Microsoft at the Web 2.0 races?

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    I have been asked to give a presentation, on Microsoft’s relevance in the Web 2.0 arena. What do people think, are Microsoft a player in this sphere? They have Office Live, Windows Live Mail, MSN Spaces and they are a big supporter of RSS – it will be baked into the next versions of Internet…

  • Darren Barefoot interview podcast

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    I recorded an interview with Darren Barefoot at the end of last week but what with the Scoble’s visit and the IT@Cork conference, I haven’t had a chance to publish it until now. Darren is an uber blogger, a web marketer, he is involved in Capulet Communications, Northern voice, darrenbarefoot.com, geek travellers blog – that…

  • Microsoft becoming more open?

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    Microsoft made two major announcements overnight – the first is an announcement by Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie that Microsoft are extending RSS under a Creative Commons licence, and calling the extended RSS, Simple Sharing Extensions or SSE. Russell Beattie likes it: Adding in SSE namespace could then in theory allow *any* data contained in an…