The News Review:
- Google set to challenge Microsoft’s office monopoly
- Corel’s Lightning word processor strikes
- BlackBerry 8800 : Hardware Reviews : Handhelds Review : ZDNet Asia
Google set to challenge Microsoft’s office monopoly
Register – Feb 27, 2007
Google Apps is not great software but it is good enough. Actually the word processor is really good for collaborating on documents because its versioning works well and it’s easy to understand. The email is good too. But there’s no PowerPoint equivalent yet and the spreadsheet is weak. But who cares? Microsoft ffice is ridiculously over-featured and for 50 per cent of users (if not 80 per cent) Google Apps will be good enough. ffice software costs a small fortune over time. First you have to upgrade regularly (or eventually) which never costs nothing.
Corel’s Lightning word processor strikes
CNET News – Feb 27, 2007
More confusion: the cursor flashes in the Viewer even while you can’t edit text there. Nevertheless Corel’s strategy of creating a nimble set of productivity tools with Internet tie-ins makes sense. By contrast when Microsoft released ffice 2007 I was surprised it lacked a. Microsoft seemed to expect users who wanted to take their work on the road either to e-mail documents to themselves to upload files to a personal server or to rely on its Groove or server-based tools found only in the more expensive editions of ffice. nline software maker.
BlackBerry 8800 : Hardware Reviews : Handhelds Review : ZDNet Asia
ZDNet Asia – Feb 27, 2007
The BlackBerry 8800 offers the famed push technology and can sync with your company’s BlackBerry Enterprise server with support for Microsoft Exchange IBM Lotus Domino or Novell GroupWise to deliver corporate email in real time. All in all the device can support up to 10 accounts including PP3 or IMAP4 email accounts and there is an email wizard on the device to guide you through the setup process. An attachment viewer is also onboard to open popular file formats such as those from Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint and Corel WordPerfect as well as PDFs JPEGs GIFs and more. ther messaging options include text multimedia and instant messaging although the IMs are once again limited to the proprietary BlackBerry Messenger client. Finally the BlackBerry 8800 includes a number of PIM tools for the business users including a calendar a tasks list a memo pad an alarm and a calculator. PerformanceZDNet sister site CNET. com tested the quad-band BlackBerry 8800 world phone in San Francisco using the Cingular Wireless service and call quality was decent.