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MS office on the cloud: Office 365
So finally Microsoft has released its much anticipated, cloud version of the traditional MS Office dubbed as Office 365, that will provide with online access to MS Office, Exchange Online, Lync Online instant-messaging software and SharePoint Online. The fact is it’s actually a newly rebranded and refreshed hosted version of its Office productivity software suite, which used to be Office Live Workspace (More or Less). Office 365 lets users access Office 2010 applications and documents from a PC, Smartphone, iPad or just about any device with a Web browser (Finally folks at MS started to realize there is a whole world out there that don’t give a damn about IE, thus it is compatible in most of the well known browsers). It also supports online collaboration and offline use with a client version of Office. Launched to limited beta and slated for a 2011 release, Office 365 adds a lot pricing variables to woo rival Google Apps and Zoho collaboration suit users. Pricing Plans Small businesses with 25 or fewer employees can pay $6 per user per month for Office Web Apps, along with hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint. Larger enterprises can choose from products costing anywhere from USD…
Office 2010 could have been better
This Tuesday Microsoft officially released Microsoft Office 2010, which includes all version of the productivity suite. With around 755 million of user worldwide Microsoft office definitely dominate Office productivity market share, closest match are way behind down the line. The last office suite, Office 2007 was released by MSFT way back in January 2007, so definitely it has been long awaited version. User can now upgrade to their choice of new Office versions: the $149.99 Home and Student bundle of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote; the $279.99 Home and Business edition, which adds Outlook; or the $499.99 Professional release, including all of the above plus Access and Publisher. With a new version available, consumers are deciding whether to upgrade now, later, or at all. Office 2010 is the first release of Office that comes in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Office 2010 is the slickest, most feature-rich version of the suite Microsoft ever released. For those who might expecting to see some remarkable UI changes in this new Office suite, will be disappointed as Office 2010 looks remarkably like its predecessor. Though the UI remains almost same there were some significant feature addition and upgrades in Office 2010. Have to say…
Collaboration tools: NomaDesk
Virtual file space isn’t anything new, you and me all familiar with it for our everyday net life. Recently there is surge of document sharing services, which virtually concentrated to B2B (Business to business), rather than B2C (Business to consumers). But hey you always have to welcome something innovative, conventional, out of the ordinary business file sharing services like NomaDesk. A groupware such as NomaDesk which is designed for the nomadic workforce (an odd nickname, yet very appropriate), truly change the way business moves. A professional collaboration tool that leaves out the high minded IT, expensive hardware, and training, leaving your company with an effective and affordable workspace app. Workspaces appear as Windows drives, meaning that even your most non-technically minded employee can create and manage his/her own space. I know there are many other renowned collaboration systems out there, why do you have to go with this start-up instead? Effortless manage, edit, share and synchronize which is affordable and highly scalable workspace that are always available, on-line or off –Reason enough to give NomaDesk a trial run nonetheless. Documents can be sent via any email-enabled device using the Email2Folder feature—no extra software is required. NomaDesk is fully integrated into…
Acrobat.com a glimpse of Adobe’s full featured online office suit?
Not so sure if Adobe will push it through full featured online office suit, but surely the launch of Acrobat.com will make a lot of people worried. Adobe released today a free Web-based beta supplement called Acrobat.com for its popular PDF application. This Acrobat.com is a suite of hosted services available as public beta for free signup, bringing Adobe style RIA based communication, productivity, and collaboration tools right within a web browser. This beta release supports basic Web conferencing (don’t forget there is desktop sharing) and limited free conversion of documents to PDF format. Acrobat.com works well with the beta version of Acrobat 9, which is schedule to ship on July, but as well have backward compatibility support. Though only Acrobat 9 users will have access to a "personal workspace in the clouds" that is available from virtually anywhere for working with others online. Acrobat.com include Adobe Buzzword, a Web-based word processor was originally developed by Virtual Ubiquity, which Adobe acquired last September. Buzzword can be used to easily co-author and share documents for comment and review, creating high-quality print results and Adobe ConnectNow, a personal Web conferencing service that includes desktop sharing, video and voice conferencing and integrated chat….
MS office live workspace,goes public
Microsoft Monday launched the public beta of Office Live Workspace and added a number of features to the service that users can team with the desktop version of Office. Microsoft, back in October 2007, revealed their first step in bringing Microsoft Office online, with the free web-based Office Live Workspace. They have now announced a public beta test for the services, to anyone who wants to give it a shot as an online extension of their desktop office. Please note that Office Live Workspace is not an online version of Office but a number of services that let users share and store documents online, so it would be much appropriate to call it the online extension of your desktop office. So do not misunderstood online office products offered by Google, Zoho and others that allow users to do word processing and use spreadsheets online for free, the new Microsoft approach simply allows users who already have purchased their MS Office software to make easier use of it online. He! He! No free ride with big brother. Microsoft Office Live enables users to save more than 1,000 Microsoft Office documents to one place online. With the software, a user or collaborators…
Online collaboration tools: Series C
Groupware or collaboration software aims to help organize teamwork. Microsoft Project is one of the best-known project management apps, but not every business requires its power. A new generation of simpler, Web-based services can do the job. In our last two sets of collaboration tools review we featured four of the most outstanding free/partially free online collaboration app. Off course those aren’t the only tools that can make your collaboration up to the mark, there are a bunch of app/software out there which are free (Partial or full) and this list is growing every day. So here are my today’s picks: Wrike Wrike offers a bit less Web-based project management services than most of its competitors. The service moved out of beta test into public release less than a year ago. Features a TimeLine view, which displays Gantt charts, will definitely impress you. In this short lifespan they already manage to get attention of big fish like PCWorld, eWeek etc. Admit it, most of we collaborate our projects over hundreds of email, imagine the situation when you have 2-3 projects and mails are piling over on inbox-tracking them would be like finding needle in a hay stack. Wrike makes life…
Microsoft’s eager to power OLPC laptops
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the Delaware, USA based, non-profit organization, created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab, set up to oversee The Children’s Machine project and the construction of the XO-1 "$100 laptop". Both the project and the organization were announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2005. It has attracted news whirl, since its birth, once again it’s in limelight reason-Microsoft. Microsoft Corp. this week said that it is working on a version of Windows XP operating system compatible with laptops from OLPC. The company said that Windows XP may work already on the current XO model, which was once supposed to sell for $100; obviously they are targeting future versions of the notebook as well. Microsoft’s appearance certainly contradicting the OLPC policy described here, which says- XO is built from free and open-source software. Our commitment to software freedom gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on their own terms…… We are using open-document formats for much the same reason: transparency is empowering. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Will Poole expresses uncertainty on this during an interview on Thursday.(Source Reuters) We’re spending a nontrivial amount of money on it … We…
The minority report is real, thanks to MS Surface
Let’s begin this with a very simple question, what is the most fundamental means of interaction with a physical object? Undeniably the answer would be “Touch” or “Grab”. Microsoft re-introduced that very basic method of interaction recently at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California, with the launch of Surface. Six years ago Stevie Bathieche and Andy Wilson of Microsoft had a concept to mix virtual and physical worlds to bring a rich interactive experience. Half Dozen years later, Microsoft today revealed its plans for Microsoft Surface, the first product of its class. The technology, the formerly code-named Milan, lets Microsoft turn a seemingly ordinary surface, such as a tabletop or a wall, into a computer. Surprised? Don’t be, because it’s just the beginning of the end of our fundamental thought process when it comes to digital content manipulation. With MS surface you can actually grab the data or digital content with your hands and move between objects with natural gesture like touch, slide etc. Isn’t it so close to “Minority Report” like world? Well Pete Thompson, general manager of Microsoft’s surface computing group did say “It will feel like Minority Report”. The concept is simple: Users interact…
Microsoft & Adobe starts their SaaS expedition
Just couple of years ago SaaS (Software as a service) was just merely an idea/lab concept of software giants. But hey that scenario has completely changed and turned into a head to toe race that transforming the basic computing completely virtual. T Though Adobe is one of the most admirable software giant, but was completely absent from this race, by virtue of its purchase of a start-up firm (Virtual Ubiquity Inc) that’s been developing an online word processor that’s coincidentally built on Adobe technology now adobe joins the race in full gear. Adobe will announce today its plans to move into online word processing by acquiring Virtual Ubiquity Inc., a closely held firm in Massachusetts that offers a service called Buzzword. Terms of the acquisition were unknown at the time of this writing. Buzzword will work online or offline, in a browser or on a desktop, on Windows, Macintosh or Linux, and provide the exact same experience regardless of platform or connection status. Adobe is promising that Buzzword will be the next generation in online, collaborative document creation and management. As part of the online publishing push, Adobe is launching a service called Share as well, which will allow people…
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