The News Review:
- Report: Microsoft to rein in real estate expansion
- pen up most files with Google Docs automatically
- Keynote ’09
Report: Microsoft to rein in real estate expansion
Computerworld MA
Microsoft will delay for at least three years the construction of all new buildings in Redmond Wash. except one the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Monday. The story was based on an internal. Redmond is the Seattle suburb where Microsoft’s headquarters are located. Microsoft will also not renew most of its leases when they come up for renewal this year and next the newspaper reported. The real estate measures would help Microsoft save $607 million through the end of its 2010 fiscal year according to the Post-Intelligencer.
pen up most files with Google Docs automatically
CNET News CA
” nce installed it will open up any file type that Google accepts in–you guessed it–Google Docs. This includes both PDFs and PowerPoint files the latter of which will open up straightaway in the presentations app. This is a marriage of convenience for people on Netbooks or machines where they don’t want to install a bunch of software. With this installed you can open and edit nearly every text file you’d normally download and edit offline. I’m hoping future versions will let you open up certain files like PDFs in.
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Keynote ’09
Macworld CA
elegance or ease of use. Despite some disappointing oversights Keynote ?09 is an evolutionary upgrade that raises the bar further.