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Why Microsoft Office is Our PC's Kudzu

By David Strom / December 7, 2011 12:00 PM / View Comments

old-office-150.jpgIs it time to retire Microsoft Office, as my colleague Eric Lundquist says in his latest Information Week column? Much as I would like to, I can't. Part of the problem is addiction, part comfort, and part because it just works well enough that there isn't any reason to get rid of it. Office is the kudzu of the computer world: you can't easily get rid of it, it has grown like topsy to take over other apps, and it holds you in its grip something fierce.

Microsoft Project and Visio Will Come to Office 365

By Klint Finley / July 15, 2011 12:30 PM / View Comments

Office 365 Microsoft Office 365, the cloud-based service from Microsoft (read our take on it here), already supports Outlook/Exchange, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Lync. We've reported that BlackBerry Enterprise Server is coming to 365 as well. What else can you expect to see in Microsoft's cloud in the future?

According to Mary Jo Foley, Dynamics CRM Online and Windows Intune have already confirmed. And Microsoft Business Solutions Corporate Vice President Michael Park let slip that Project and Visio are on the way as well.

Office 365 vs. Google Apps vs. Zoho

By Klint Finley / June 28, 2011 4:38 PM / View Comments

Office 365 Today, as expected Office 365 came out of beta. Office 365 is Microsoft's consolidated cloud-services system that combines hosted versions of Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Lync Server.

So how does it hold up to two older offers, Google Apps and Zoho?

Quickoffice Comes to Honeycomb, Shipping on Xoom Tablets

By Sarah Perez / March 22, 2011 4:23 PM / View Comments

Quickoffice logo 150x150Mobile office giant Quickoffice has released a number of updates for its software programs, including a custom-built application designed specifically for Android's tablet operating system, code-named "Honeycomb." The new app will ship on Motorola Xoom devices, and will be upgradable to a full version for a fee.

The Google Honeycomb version of this popular office program takes advantage of native Android features, including contextual search, voice-to-text and text-to-voice as well as design interface elements, like fragments. But what might be the most amazing part about the launch of the Honeycomb edition of Quickoffice is how fast the app was built - in only 2 months.

What Facebook Didn't Mention: Microsoft Office Web Apps Come to New Messaging Platform

By Frederic Lardinois / November 15, 2010 11:22 AM / View Comments

Facebook_logo.jpgFacebook's newly announced messaging platform will deeply integrate Microsoft's Office Web Apps so that Facebook users can view Word, Excel and PowerPoint attachments without having to leave the site. Rumors about this integration started to make the rounds on the Internet last week. Oddly, though, Facebook didn't mention this integration during today's press conference and makes no mention of it in the official announcement on its corporate blog.

Gmail Gets One-Click Microsoft Word Previews

By Frederic Lardinois / June 25, 2010 9:57 AM / View Comments

gmail_logo.PNGGoogle just announced a small but handy new feature for Gmail: one-click previews for Microsoft Word documents. This new features works for .doc and the more recent .docx format. Until now, Gmail's one-click preview feature only supported PDF files, PowerPoint documents and images in the TIFF format. The new preview feature for Word documents replaces the "view as HTML" option in Gmail.

5 Ways Google Can Up Its Game Against Office 2010

By Klint Finley / June 16, 2010 3:40 PM / View Comments

Office 2010 and Google Docs logos As Google Docs rolls out the updates we wrote about in April, Microsoft Office 2010 is hogging the limelight. And just last week Microsoft released Office Web Apps. It may seem like Microsoft is encroaching on Google's territory, but Google doesn't have much territory to defend.

OffiSync Introduces Real-Time Co-Authoring Between Microsoft Office and Google Docs

By Sarah Perez / April 13, 2010 8:38 AM / View Comments

OffiSync is launching an all-new version of its Microsoft Office to Google Docs synchronization tool, a plugin that's a "must-have" for anyone still straddling the two worlds of office suites: that is, the desktop-based world of Microsoft software and the web-based world of Google Docs. In the updated version of OffiSync, set to arrive minutes from now, you'll be able to co-author documents in real-time between Microsoft Office and Google Docs, no matter what version of the Office software you use. There are a few other new features too, including improvements to search, added Google Sites support and the ability to store any file type, but it's the co-authoring feature that's today's biggest reveal.

Google to Launch Server-Side Clipboard for Docs

By Sarah Perez / February 17, 2010 8:38 AM / View Comments

One of the features that Google's online office program Google Docs lacks is a cloud-based version of Microsoft Office's "clipboard" feature. Although you can copy and paste when using Docs, it's a much simpler procedure. The keyboard shortcut "Ctrl + C" copies and "Ctrl + V" pastes, but it's a one-time process. You can't accumulate a collection of copied items for later pasting as you can with the Office clipboard.

Some may argue that's by design - Google likes to keep things simple. However, it appears that may not be the case, after all. As spotted by the Google Operating System blog, a new server-side clipboard looks like it may be close to launch.

From Co-Working to Cubicles: Where Are You Working?

By Dana Oshiro / January 13, 2010 6:21 PM / View Comments

craigslist_realestate_jan10.jpgOne of the fantastic things about being an entrepreneur is that you can define your own working conditions. From Craigslist's modest Sunset District apartment headquarters to Twitter's stylish new digs, startups are getting creative with their work spaces. Below are a few options to consider in choosing your space.

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