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Article | 1/02/2011 IBM to offer cloud office suite
Joining Microsoft, Oracle, Google and others, IBM plans to offer a cloud-based office suite, the company announced on Monday.
Article | 26/01/2011 Google adds education category to Apps Marketplace
Google is debuting on Tuesday a special category for education-related software in its Apps Marketplace, prompted by what it considers the success of ...
Article | 19/01/2011 Microsoft: BPOS components average 99.9-plus per cent uptime
The hosted applications in Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) have averaged uptime of 99.9 per cent or better in the past ...
Article | 15/01/2011 Google tightens Apps' uptime guarantee
Google is modifying its Apps service level agreement in ways that increase the company's accountability whenever the hosted collaboration and communic...
Article | 16/12/2010 Microsoft to boost Office 2003, 2007 security
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would backport an Office 2010 security feature to the older and more widely used Office 2003 and Office 2007 early n...
Article | 16/12/2010 Oracle takes on Microsoft, Google with Cloud Office
Oracle on Wednesday announced Cloud Office 1.0, a Web-based productivity suite that is set to give online applications from Microsoft and Google a fre...
Article | 10/12/2010 Microsoft straightens out cloud strategy -- finally
Things will get rowdier for vendors of cloud collaboration, communication and office productivity applications now that Microsoft plans to unleash a t...
Article | 23/11/2010 Attachmate to feast on Novell technologies
With its pending US$2.2 billion purchase of Novell, Attachmate is acquiring a rich portfolio of technologies. The next step will be actually putting t...
Article | 23/11/2010 Google testing Office collaboration plug-in
Google has started to test with a limited number of Microsoft Office users a plug-in that lets them share and collaboratively edit their documents by ...
Article | 18/11/2010 Google Docs gets mobile editing capabilities
Users of Google's Docs hosted office productivity suite will now be able to edit word processing documents from their Android and Apple iOS devices, G...
Article | 4/11/2010 Microsoft Office for Mac 2011: Clunky to cool
When I reviewed Microsoft Office for Mac 2008, I said the then-new version of the suite was "kind of like getting a new Chevy." In other words, it was...
Article | 3/11/2010 More contributors leave OpenOffice.org for LibreOffice
33 contributors to the OpenOffice.org project are leaving, unhappy with what they say is Oracle's attitude toward the project's organisation and manag...
Article | 29/10/2010 Microsoft quarterly results boosted by Windows, Xbox, Office
Healthy sales of Windows 7, Office 2010 and Xbox 360 consoles propelled Microsoft to US$5.41 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 201...
Article | 24/10/2010 Hands-on with Microsoft Office Mobile 7
Microsoft's release of Windows Phone 7 brings updated mobile-formatted Word, Excel, and PowerPoint programs, and OneNote Mobile, to your fingertips. T...
Article | 21/10/2010 Microsoft signs cloud deals with California, New York City
Continuing the progress that Microsoft is making in the state and local government sector, the company has signed cloud computing deals with the city ...