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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]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft still a collaboration lightweight
Comment It's tricky to change what people understand by the word 'Office', and it's hard for us to get across that we're not talking about Office applications, but the collaborative Office environment. Microsoft's real-time tools have their origin in the... [21 Jun 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Programme management, car mobile ban and Office XML
Comment At Comdex, Microsoft has announced it will provide royalty free licences for the XML schemas that describe Word, Excel and InfoPath documents. The basic letter was produced in Word and exported in XML format and then the operational system can use... [23 Nov 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Executive e-learning, Sun's future and Sybase's AvantGo
Comment Even in today's economic climate, 'failure' isn't a word that exists in the executive's vocabulary. It's only when they get their nice little office and comfortable leather executive chair that they realise they are ill-equipped to perform their... [07 Mar 2003]
Start-up of the month: "We're building a brain!"
Comment It understands sentences word by word and builds its replies word-by-word, rather than just reading a script. The company hopes to give LAD the linguistic skills of a six-year-old child with a 1,000 word vocabulary by this time next year. [21 Mar 2002]
The secret history of the PC
Comment These PCs came equipped with relatively sophisticated software including the EasyWriter word processor, VisiCalc spreadsheet and Microsoft Adventure game. Users could go down to an office equipment shop and walk away with a computer rather than... [10 Aug 2001]
The web laid bare
Comment Considering that happened back in mid-June, there's no real reason to talk about it now, except it provides us with a shoddy excuse to repeat the teaser one of our over-worked subs came up with at the time (a teaser being our affectionate word for... [10 Aug 2001]
The Gadget Showdown: 'Cocaine, Mrs Phillips?'
Comment You can then open a word processing program, click the "Start Talking" button, and get busy. Don't try and dictate word by word. It's not a sound heard very often in the modern office, least of all in the high-tech sector - the sound of a busy... [10 Apr 2001]
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