Microsoft Unveils Office, Fuels Google Rivalry
marketwatch.com — Microsoft Corp. on Monday made the latest edition of its Office software suite available for testing and plans to make key applications such as Word and Excel available over the Web -- acknowledging burgeoning competition from Internet giant Google Inc. and others. (Submitted by inactive) More...
Microsoft investigates leak of "Office" videos
news.yahoo.com — "Software giant Microsoft Corp. said on Tuesday it was investigating how two in-house training videos made by British comedian Ricky Gervais, creator of "The Office" television series, appeared on two Web sites." (Submitted by hemphill81) More...
Google Will Kill Microsoft With Web Apps
blog.wired.com — "Steve Ballmer says Microsoft has "no choice" but to embrace the web app revolution." Um... what web app revolution? The real revolution will come from virtualization and open source software. Google will likely succeed with a few useful services, but Microsoft's plan to embed spyware and advertising into Windows & Office will be a dismal failure (Submitted by OBKenobi) More...
Bootleg Versions of Vista and Office 2007 Appear
news.yahoo.com — "Reports have surfaced that bootleg copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 can be obtained from Web sites that offer not only the software itself, but also a working product key and a hack that circumvents Microsoft's activation system." But you guys already knew this. (Submitted by inactive) More...
Microsoft's Online Push An Act Of Necessity, Not Desperation
informationweek.com — Microsoft's launch Sunday of new online software is being widely seen as a desperate, defensive measure against Google, IBM, OpenOffice and other Web 2.0 challengers to its Office franchise. But the numbers show Office is stronger than ever -- what's really going on? (Submitted by reemshuks) More...
Fear of Web 2.0
readwriteweb.com — Enterprises continue to adopt web technologies and 'web 2.0' trends, but there are two common threads to this adoption. One is that web technologies are step-by-step being adopted by enterprises, but they aren't yet ready to usurp many desktop software apps. The Google Apps vs Microsoft Office debate currently raging is proof of that. (Submitted by michaelstokes) More...
Gates: We will crush Google just like we crushed Netscape!
[Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate]crn.com — Bill Gates hinted the software giant will crush Google in the same way that it crushed Netscape -- by integrating enterprise search deeply into Windows Vista, Office 2007, Outlook 2007 and SharePoint 2007 and with the rest of the Windows platform and also with emerging web services from Microsoft. (Submitted by KoZo) More...
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