The News Review:
- ffice 2007 Home and StudentUser Reviews – PC World Pricing
- Intelligent thinking
- Enterprise computing gets sociable
- Windows Mobile 6: new email options
- penffice.org Gets Boost In China – ChinaTechNews.com – The Technolog…
ffice 2007 Home and StudentUser Reviews – PC World Pricing
PC World – May 28, 2007
Pretty much all most people need. Reasonable price for this package. 3 household pc license. Weaknesses: nenote is not very useful would rather have utlook which is not includedverall Evaluation: verall this package is well priced for what it includes.
Intelligent thinking
Siliconrepublic.com – May 28, 2007
What we are interested in is the democratisation of data mining” says Moore. “In the past it was the job of a few analysts to take the data and make it available for the senior management. Now managers throughout an organisation can access intelligence and present reports to their teams in Excel or PowerPoint. “He argues that Microsoft has made the whole realm of BI not only more affordable but also more accessible because it all takes place within the familiar Windows environment. Unlike the components incorporated into SQL Server the new tools are sold as an add-on but still work out cheaper than many of its competitors said Goodman. HP partners both racle and Microsoft acting as a system integrator delivering its customers a BI solution. He believes the Microsoft proposition heralds a significant change in the market.
Enterprise computing gets sociable
Asiane – May 28, 2007
Cognitive Edge was previously the Cynefin Centre for rganisational Complexity a centre spun off from IBM in July 2005. ‘The natural uses of these tools change significantly when they are brought inside the firewall’ said Mr Lambe who is also the president of the Institute of Knowledge Management Singapore. Software giant IBM along with companies like Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have started on the social computing path – rolling out blogs or wikis. ‘Much of their strength in the Internet comes from the openness diversity and sheer scale of participation on the Worldwide Web. That scale and diversity doesn’t exist inside the enterprise and usually not on the corporate intranet. ‘ What results is that these tools are then used for very specialised purposes such as using team blogs to keep everyone up to date in a project or using wikis to collaboratively develop draft policy papers or update client information after a visit. Better collaboration’In many cases corporate intranet teams quite rightly see these tools as ways to get more participation going in intranets of static content… ‘A screencast is a digital movie of a computer screen with accompanying audio narration that describes what is going on on the screen. ‘In the old days companies used to have departments that would create presentation transparencies for executives whenever they needed to make a presentation. Then we got Powerpoint and gradually everybody learned how to construct passable presentations. Now the same thing is happening with learning content. In the old days you needed instructional designers and production crews to make it. Now anybody can make it – and they are doing so. Pretty soon this is going to move inside the enterprise’ predicted Mr Lambe.
Windows Mobile 6: new email options
PCWorld.co.nz – May 28, 2007
And now you can edit data in an Excel spreadsheet (you still can’t create formulas or new spreadsheets though). Borrowing from ffice 2007 the calendar has a vaguely ribbon-like interface that shows your free time. It also checks for schedule conflicts whenever you receive a meeting invitation. Windows Mobile 6 supports some Windows Live services including Windows Live Messenger.
penffice.org Gets Boost In China – ChinaTechNews.com – The Technolog…
ChinaTechNews.com – May 28, 2007
org is a key implementation of penDocument Format the IS 26300 open standard file format for office applications that is completely vendor neutral. The suite of software applications competes directly with Microsoft’s ffice product which combines applications like Microsft Wod Excel and Powerpoint. Under the provisions of the agreement Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 which produces the popular penffice. org-based Redffice will add to the open source project approximately 50 engineers some of whom have been working on the penffice. org project since the second half of 2006. Hu CaiYong CE of Redflag Chinese 2000 stated “I look forward to the innovative and new accomplishments our collaboration will produce.