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Article | 30/11/2011 Microsoft: Office 365 a hit, especially with small businesses
Office 365, Microsoft's cloud collaboration and communication suite for organizations, is selling eight times faster than its predecessor, the Busines...
Article | 15/10/2011 Apache asserts OpenOffice stewardship
Despite the growing momentum of the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is urging the community of volunteer develope...
Article | 1/10/2011 Spreadsheets come to ODF as version 1.2 wins approval
The ODF 1.2 specification, which aims to perfect the spreadsheet workflow, has been approved by the members of the Organization for the Advancement of...
Article | 10/09/2011 Google apologizes for Docs outage
A software upgrade that went wrong caused parts of the Google Docs cloud-hosted office productivity suite to go offline for an hour on Wednesday, a si...
Article | 10/08/2011 From Microsoft to Google Apps: Why we migrated
When Michael O'Brien joined Journal Communications in May 2010 as its new CIO, he had a stacked agenda. Journal Communications, a media company with o...
Article | 15/07/2011 IBM bequeaths Symphony code to Apache
Hoping to further sharpen OpenOffice's competitive viability against Microsoft Office, IBM is donating the code of its Symphony open source office sui...
Article | 5/07/2011 Swiss party makes dislike of PowerPoint a political issue
Many people dislike PowerPoint, Microsoft's ubiquitous application for creating business presentations, but few would take a political stand over it. ...
Article | 2/07/2011 Office 365 off-limits to existing BPOS customers
Office 365 is now officially out, having been launched with great fanfare by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in New York City this week, but customers of ...
Article | 29/06/2011 Microsoft Office 365 goes live
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched the much-awaited Office 365 on Tuesday, after a beta program of about nine months, as the company responds -- som...
Article | 28/06/2011 BPOS customers face transition to Office 365
When Microsoft launches Office 365 on Tuesday, the countdown will officially begin for current BPOS customers to upgrade to the new suite.
Article | 23/06/2011 Microsoft's Cloud BPOS suite suffers outage again
Microsoft's BPOS Cloud-hosted communication and collaboration suite suffered an outage on Wednesday, the latest in a string of technical problems in r...
Article | 3/06/2011 FAQ: What's the future of OpenOffice.org?
Oracle suddenly <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060111-oracle-submits-openofficeorg-codebase-to.html">announced Wednesday it was submit...
Article | 3/06/2011 Google adds developer console to extend Apps
IT departments can now build custom applications for Google Apps and integrate them with the cloud-based collaboration and communication suite in the ...
Article | 2/06/2011 Oracle submits OpenOffice.org codebase to Apache
Oracle is submitting the codebase for OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, where the productivity suite will live on in the group's incub...
Article | 24/05/2011 Jive buys OffiSync to deepen links with Microsoft apps
Jive Software has acquired OffiSync, whose technology links Microsoft desktop applications with cloud-based enterprise social collaboration suites.