Tag: office 2.0

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

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    Tom Raftery
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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 launches online presentations

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    Tom Raftery
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    Google announced today that they have added an online presentation function to their Google Docs and Spreadsheets. The new application is called Google Docs Presentations and its functionality is available under the New menu: You can import existing PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, OpenOffice files and you can email documents to the application. However, there is…

  • Is $60 too much for Microsoft Office?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see that, according to InsideMicrosoft, Microsoft are offering Office 2007 Ultimate 2007 to students for $60! According to the Microsoft press release the limited-time promotion for college students starting today in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and starting Sept. 20 in Spain, Italy and France No word on when, or indeed if,…

  • Google's Office 2.0 steps up a gear

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    Tom Raftery
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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…

  • Google Apps Premier Edition

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    InformationWeek are reporting that Google have released a business class version of their Google Apps. The new suite of apps will be called Google Apps Premier Edition and, according to the article: Google Apps Premier Edition features application programming interfaces that businesses can use to integrate it with their own applications. Ten Gigabytes (10GB) of…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    Tom Raftery
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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…

  • Online presentation software review

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    Tom Raftery
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    There is plenty of talk around the online Word processor space and the online Spreadsheet space but you don’t hear as much about the online Presentation space (think online PowerPoint). This is one plank currently missing from Google’s online Office offering. The other CIX guys and I have a need to create a presentation and,…

  • Microsoft Office? Oh yeah, I remember that…

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    Tom Raftery
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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,…