The News Review:
- Microsoft`s Project `Albany` Takes Aim at Google Docs
- Google and Microsoft: competing for the document collaboration space
- Charleston and the Islands News: Happenings
- Linux – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog
- CMS Watch Report: SharePoint Has Become the New Lotus Notes
- Tech Talk – ABC Science nline Forum
Microsoft`s Project `Albany` Takes Aim at Google Docs
eWeek – Mar 27, 2008
Currently Works is sold as an on-premises application. But because itcompetes with Google Docs’ sweet spotcasual use by consumersit’s morelikely to be a foundation piece of Albany. Google Docs is a suite of on-demand applications lettingusers create documents spreadsheets and presentations which representslow-level online competition to Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint. User documents are stored online and can accessed from any browser. Users can inviteothers to view and make changes to their documents. What may also be a core part of the Albanyproject is SharePoint Server 2007 a collaboration and content managementserver that also includes search. Helm said Microsoft has already done pieces of the onlinework with this latest version including the addition of an online spreadsheetcapability and a Windows Live writer positioned as a blogging toolprovides some word processing capabilities.
Google and Microsoft: competing for the document collaboration space
Computer Business Review – Mar 28, 2008
It has been two years since Google entered the office productivity applications and collaboration arena with the acquisition of Writely a web-hosted word processor. Since then the company has added spreadsheets and presentations to its portfolio and has launched the Google Apps service: an offering comprised of Gmail Google Calendar Google Talk (a Windows-based application for voice over IP and instant messaging) Google Docs Google Page Creator (a Web site creation and hosting service) and Google Sites (a facility for building team-oriented information sharing web sites). In response Microsoft has also launched a new service to help individuals and teams collaborate. Called ffice Live Workspace this free service lets users save share and edit Microsoft ffice documents via the web. Users can save documents spreadsheets and presentations directly from Word Excel and PowerPoint and they can also synchronise contact task and event lists with utlook: a mode of operation sufficiently different to Google’s offering to make a difference. Google and Microsoft aren’t the only companies offering cloud-based office applications and document collaboration facilities. For example Adobe has Buzzword a Flash-based word processor that makes Google’s word processing tool look archaic; AL has just acquired Goowy and its ‘Webtop’ workspace technology ThinkFree offers a platform independent on-line office suite and Zoho provides a replete set of online applications that present offline capabilities courtesy of Google Gears… In response Microsoft has also launched a new service to help individuals and teams collaborate. Called ffice Live Workspace this free service lets users save share and edit Microsoft ffice documents via the web. Users can save documents spreadsheets and presentations directly from Word Excel and PowerPoint and they can also synchronise contact task and event lists with utlook: a mode of operation sufficiently different to Google’s offering to make a difference. Google and Microsoft aren’t the only companies offering cloud-based office applications and document collaboration facilities. For example Adobe has Buzzword a Flash-based word processor that makes Google’s word processing tool look archaic; AL has just acquired Goowy and its ‘Webtop’ workspace technology ThinkFree offers a platform independent on-line office suite and Zoho provides a replete set of online applications that present offline capabilities courtesy of Google Gears. This growing battle for dominance in the online document collaboration space is reminiscent of the office application wars fought between Lotus Microsoft and WordPerfect (now owned by Corel) in the 1990s. However this time around the market is very different as ‘information work’ is no longer the sole domain of the white collar worker.
Charleston and the Islands News: Happenings
Charleston Post Courier (subscription) – Mar 27, 2008
Trident Literacy sets computer trainingThe Trident Literacy Association a provider of basic computer training and computer instruction for students of all ages is holding enrollment for the April 28 computer classes. The course includes Microsoft Window XP Excel Microsoft ffice Word and PowerPoint. The fee for each course is $25. Courses are four to six weeks long and are held each Monday and Thursday (open lab with a instructor on hand; assistance with Microsoft ffice Word Excel PowerPoint Basic Computer skills and keyboarding) 6-7:45 p. The fee for the open lab is $10.
Linux – Bits – Technology – New York Times Blog
nytimes.com – Mar 27, 2008
But there have been recent signs of new life. Dell Computer for example has begun offering both a desktop and a portable computer with Ubuntu pre-installed as an alternative to Microsoft’s operating systems. At the same time there are some signs of resistance to Microsoft’s Windows Vista with some corporations moving back to Windows XP… The company’s chief executive Stephen Dukker is the former head of eMachines which brought the $400 machine to the PC market. He sees NComputing as a way to make PC’s affordable worldwide. He has a slide in his PowerPoint demo that declares his strategy: “The $70 PC. ” Today’s desktop PC Mr. Dukker said is “essentially a supercomputer that goes largely unused. ” So far schools have been the big early market for NComputing’s technology a combination of simple hardware and specialized software. Ninety percent of sales have been to schools and it looks especially attractive to some governments in developing nations.
CMS Watch Report: SharePoint Has Become the New Lotus Notes
sys-con.com – Mar 27, 2008
We specialize in this. There is more information on this at… 0 SharePoint’s poor support for individuals workingon multiple different teams as well as its cumbersome and incompleteintegration with utlook. "Unfortunately as you grow very large SharePointenvironments the controls that enterprises would want to see simply don’texist natively within the platform. "Whether it’s the lack of a workflow-basedprovisioning process or enterprise-level administration or the ability toeffectively categorize large numbers of documents or PowerPoint slidesSharePoint remains ill-suited to enterprise-wide collaboration and knowledgemanagement" notes CMS Watch analyst Alan Pelz-Sharpe. These findings stem from "The SharePoint Report2008" a 190-page evaluation of SharePoint from an enterprise perspectivewhich assesses the platform’s suitability for different business scenariosacross various customer tiers. CMS Watchevaluates technologies from a buyer’s perspective testing tools and debriefinglicensees about actual implementation experiences. The SharePoint Report 2008 concludes by advising customersto establish clear boundaries on SharePoint services to keep it from becomingtheir new Notes – the platform that everyone loved but then loved to avoid. For more information contactKristie Hudges.
Tech Talk – ABC Science nline Forum
abc.net.au – Mar 28, 2008
I suggest then you try Photostory for Windows (a Microsoft freebie) which will make a photo slideshow and has a function to add a voiceover for each slide as well as some background music of your own choice or from the selection provided with the program itself. There are basic transition effect you can add if you want. The result is quite presentable 
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