____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 December 2007 14:24 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Exstream Soft to provide Microsoft applications for rent
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>>| The company will aim to provide Microsoft applications to domestic users
>>| and small and medium businesses on a monthly rental basis.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B964332D-CAB4-4491-BB39-673A5E3A4216
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> That'll be cheaper than google office, or openoffice.org. Won't it?
That's just what Microsoft hopes to drive away. The last report about Office
Live (or "Live Office") quoted a Microsoft executive saying that adoption has
been poor. On the other side of the lake, Google quietly collects clients, who
I assume will /temporarily/ use their old version of Microsoft Office and
Google Apps in tendem.
A long time ago:
Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000 businesses
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| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps has
| already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000 small to
| medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the largest
| companies in the world, according to the search leader's
| enterprise product boss.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/
Microsoft 'strikes back' (with FUD, not better products):
Google Apps Catches Flak
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| Microsoft is launching an anti-Google propaganda campaign.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/09/11/google-apps-catches-flak/?mod=yahoo_hs
Microsoft Retaliates With 10 Reasons Not To Use Google Apps
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| This, of course, brought Google even closer to rivaling Microsoft's Office
| suite, which has now spurred a reaction from the Redmond software giant.
|
| No, its not new software or updates for the popular productivity suite, but
| rather Microsoft's own reasoning on why businesses should NOT use Google
| Apps.
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http://www.profy.com/2007/09/11/microsoft-retaliates-with-10-reasons-not-to-use-google-apps/
Will Google Loosen Microsoft's Grip on Large Enterprise?
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| It’s got to be frustrating to sit in Redmond today and watch the world go by
| without having much of a grip on it anymore.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070910/46884_id.html?.v=1
Out of the office
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| Nobody's better at defending its turf than Microsoft of course, so this will
| not be a quick or easy war.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/commentary-watch-out-microsoft-google/story.aspx?guid=%7BD0EF1345-0BC4-459A-A780-8F861CEEAE40%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2lxuct
Google denies its Apps just a Microsoft Office add-on
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| Google staff don't like the suggestion that their own employees depend mostly
| on Microsoft Office even as Google Apps makes headway into the enterprise
| collaboration and e-mail market.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1697987130&rid=-50
Google Poses Biggest Threat To MS Office, Readers Say
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| Readers have a lot to say about free/alternative office suites (as in,
| alternatives to Microsoft's dominant Office product). Presented with a
| growing list of alternatives, they conclude that Google Docs is a viable
| threat to Microsoft.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/09/google_poses_bi.html
Google Only Ahead Of Microsoft In Search: Ballmer
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| Live Spaces: nice tie in with the MSN chat platform, but still a poor cousin
| to Blogger as a blogging platform.
|
| Video: did someone say YouTube?
|
| The list could go on and on and on and on…. but I’ll stop there. Certainly
| Google hasn’t dominated every market it has taken on, but to say that Google
| runs second to Microsoft online in everything but search says a lot more
| about Steve Ballmer than it being a true reflection on today’s online
| marketplace.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/08/google-only-ahead-of-microsoft-in-search-ballmer/
Google's Android just a press release, says Ballmer
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| Google's plans to enter the mobile industry with a cell phone platform might
| have impressed many in the industry but not Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
| and one of Google's biggest competitors.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/110807-googles-android-just-a-press.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Google reads your email, shocker - Steve Ballmer claims
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/08/google-reads-email-shokka
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| Angel investor Tom McInerney, co-founder of the video site Guba.com,
| agreed: "Microsoft has been humbled a little bit. They've been forced to play
| nice. A cultural change has taken place with Microsoft. There is an
| acknowledgment that they are not the king of the hill anymore. And there is
| the looming concern that Google is the new Microsoft."
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http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_7285782?nclick_check=1
Microsoft trying to derail Google/DoubleClick deal by lobbying congress
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| Microsoft has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLC to do work on "competitive
| issues surrounding Google/DoubleClick [sic] merger."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070816-microsoft-spends-40000-to-lobby-congress-about-googledoubleclick-merger.html
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