Google flirts with online OS
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| Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said the company will eventually add a
| PowerPoint-like presentation builder to its online office suite. Over the
| past two weeks, the company added a PowerPoint viewer to Gmail and announced
| the acquisition of Zenter, a startup with an existing online presentation
| tool.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/29/google_updates_docsandspreadsheets/
Remember that Google is part of the OpenDocument Alliance, so the ideal desktop
tool to use with Google Apps is probably OpenOffice. Google Apps are also
gaining offline support with Firefox collaborations and Gears.
Related:
Firefox 3 and Google team up for offline apps
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| Firefox 3 will be the first internet browser to offer offline web
| application support when it launches at the end of this year.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/118296/firefox-3-and-google-team-up-for-offline-apps.html
Gears of War
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| The new Google product that could augur the death of Microsoft.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2168419/nav/tap3/rss
Microsoft, IBM feel heat from Google Apps
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| Google Apps, a hosted service, is gaining traction primarily in universities
| but is a welcome addition to enterprise software because of its simplicity
| and ease of use, said Rob Curry, director of Microsoft's Office business
| platform group, during a panel discussion today at the Enterprise 2.0
| conference in Boston.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=5938333&rid=-50
No Demand For Browser-Based Microsoft Office?
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| Raikes said the browser-based application space is extremely
| important to watch, but there is not a lot of demand now for
| Microsoft Office in the cloud.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070427/33730_id.html?.v=1
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/
Dumping Office for Google Apps
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| Google has a friend in Disney, and that could leave Microsoft screaming
| like a jilted lover.
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http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/02/07/dumping-office-for-google-apps/
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| Microsoft has warned Google to steer clear of corporate search,
| declaring that the market is "our house"....
|
| "Those people are not going to be allowed to take food off our plate,
| because that is what they are intending to do."
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2160431/microsoft-warns-google-business
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