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The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up But don't take the Round-Up's word for it, take Bill's. This week, after 30-odd years at the helm of the company he founded with Paul Allen, Gates formally left Microsoft, driving back home like any other retiring office worker. [27 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.02.08
Round-Up Web-based spreadsheets, word processors, that kind of thing. Ballmer: "Better than that, I just wrote 'Dear Members of the Board.in Word and the paperclip appeared and said: 'Looks like you're trying to write an unsolicited acquisition proposal. [08 Feb 2008]
The truth about software as a service
Comment For Google, applications mean office tools: calendars, spreadsheets, word processors and so on - a direct challenge to Microsoft's hugely popular Office products - but all delivered on-demand via a web browser from one of Google's glistening data... [23 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.04.07
Round-Up Not content with dominating the search market and reducing Microsoft's role to a bit player, the company last year launched free word-processing and spreadsheet applications to compete with Word and Excel. [20 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.09.06
Round-Up may recall this being covered in this column at the time the original news broke (see here if you doubt the Round-Up's good word). Fans of Microsoft and Gervais (and statistically there must be quite a few of them) were in Office heaven this month... [01 Sep 2006]
Analysis: Making web 2.0 pay
Comment Google's acquisition of a tiny web word-processing maker turns the spotlight on a growing number of so-called web 2.0 companies struggling to survive - or angling to be Google's next purchase. The web search giant last Thursday confirmed it had... [14 Mar 2006]
Leader: Apple's role in the enterprise
Leader And while Apple is working on its own productivity suite, iWork, word on the street is that, quite frankly, it's pants. As our local Mac enthusiast and columnist Seb Janacek commented in his response to the fact it was the iMac and PowerBook, not... [11 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Should Microsoft be paying you to use Windows?
Comment On the application side, when the Word grammar checker insists on one construction, only to be rejected by the Word spell checker, the bemused user clearly deserves recompense. Why not pay people for using Microsoft Office or even the basic... [08 Nov 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Searching for search technology
Comment Ultimately, it should be possible to search across the entirety of a corporation's electronic records, be they stored as emails, databases, web pages, Word files, PDFs or whatever esoteric format the company may be using. [26 Aug 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.08.05
Round-Up After feeling pleased at using the word "brobdingnagian" not once but twice in the same technology column, the Round-Up was also pleased to learn that, as part of the settlement, Richter and his company has agreed to pay $7m to Microsoft. [12 Aug 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.01.05
Round-Up Poor choice of word. One master of the written word even called Rollins "Steve Ballmer's right hand pit stain". Blue touch-paper lit, the angry feedback began flooding in and soon word of the outrage found its way back to Ballmer - who claimed a... [21 Jan 2005]
Opinion: UK needs cybercrime strategy
Comment But 'soon' became the autumn and that in turn became 2005 and still not a sign, not a word of any strategy appearing from the Home Office. The campaign is chaired by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit and is supported by Dell, eBay, HSBC, Lloyds TSB... [13 Jan 2005]
Leader: Apple for business?
Leader First the iWorks suite - a word processor and slideshow application - which goes another step towards making sure you can perform of all your at-work tasks without launching Microsoft software. This week at Macworld Apple unleashed two products... [12 Jan 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Life as a tech-nomad
Comment Use a text précis program (there is one inside Microsoft Word, for example). Email, text, instant messaging, Skype/VoIP, Wi-Fi, plus all the normal office, image, movie and sound editing suites are essentials for me to be self-sustaining on the road. [06 Jan 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.08.04
Round-Up See here; here and here if you doubt the Round-Up's inestimably sound word. The festivities were particularly ebullient in the lush, spacious office of Microsoft chief executive officer and howler-monkey impersonator extraordinaire Steve Ballmer. [13 Aug 2004]
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