The News Review:
- ffice 2010 now available as Technical Preview
- US Army needs to declare war on Powerpoint
- First Look: Microsoft ffice 2010
- Microsoft’s Answer to Cloud Computing: If You Can’t Beat Them …
- Bing vs. Google. vs the Reality of History
- Microsoft ‘deal factories’ fast-track customers to block rivals
ffice 2010 now available as Technical Preview
TG Daily
“In fact Microsoft will be carefully testing the cloud opportunities of its productivity suite with ffice Web applications that are described as “lightweight Web browser versions of Word PowerPoint Excel and neNote”. Microsoft promises that these applications are powerful enough to “provide access to documents from virtually anywhere and preserve the look and feel of a document regardless of device. ” Also new are co-authoring features in Microsoft Word 2010 Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft neNote 2010 as well as “advanced e-mail management and calendaring capabilities in Microsoft utlook 2010 including the option for users to “ignore” unwanted threads. ” Powerpoint 2010 will deliver a new Backstage view mode that will allow for “easy document preparation” as well as Sparklines in Microsoft Excel 2010 to visualize data and spot trends more quickly. ffice 2010 will ship in the first half of 2010 Microsoft said.
US Army needs to declare war on Powerpoint
Fudzilla
armedforcesjournal. (As if they ever had the ability to make sensible decisions. )The article claims that the military use of Powerpoint was far too extensive and was stuffing up the ability for officers to think.
First Look: Microsoft ffice 2010
V3.co.uk
Microsoft has also stated that any computer capable of running ffice 2007will meet the system requirements for ffice 2010 and the suite will supportWindows XP SP3 Windows Vista and Windows 7. The most significant new feature is the browser-based versions of WordExcel PowerPoint and neNote. Sadly these are not included in the technicalpreview release but we hope to get a hands-on with these when Microsoft makestest builds available sometime in August. ne aspect of ffice 2010 that potential users should be aware of is itssheer size; the installer flagged up a warning during setup that a typicalconfiguration calls for at least 1. 5GB of free disk space. This may not sound like a problem with terabyte drives now on the market butif you have a laptop or netbook with a Flash solid state drive for storage1.
Microsoft’s Answer to Cloud Computing: If You Can’t Beat Them …
Web Trends
htm’>free online word processors are becoming more and more feature rich and free alternatives like penffice exist for those who want a non-web office suite Microsoft ffice 2010′s inclusion of free light-weight browser-based versions of Word Excel and PowerPoint is the perfect strategy. Not only will they gain back customers who may have eventually moved away towards the free alternatives but they push it to the next level by including the ability to push documents from the stand alone versions to the web-based versions. This is par for the course in Microsoft strategy: leverage your strengths to build up your weakness. Microsoft’s been pretty weak in the cloud computing office arena but in one fell swoop they could very well become the leaders. After all Microsoft ffice is by far the most popular office suite and millions of people use it at their place of work.
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Bing vs. Google. vs the Reality of History
Gerson Lehrman Group
So with history showing us – as recent as it may be in the digital technology era – why do we think that Google is unbeatable in the Search Engine market? Certainly Microsoft has the talent resources and marketing clout to become dominant in that space as they have done in so many other segments such as office applications and check book programs. Bing is a viable product now and like the early Google franchises will continue to develop and get better deliver richer results and will grow fatter with add-on usefulness. In reality Google was a late comer to the search engine market.
Microsoft ‘deal factories’ fast-track customers to block rivals
Register
Traditionally such deals have been passed to the Redmond HQ for senior sign-off. However this runs the risk of extending negotiations with Microsoft losing business – and all-important market share – to faster moving competitors. Microsoft was unable to comment specifically on deal factories. However a Microsoft PowerPoint from February – by UK managing director Gordon Frazer and the general manager for Microsoft UK’s small and medium solutions and partner group Scott Dodds – names the UK deal factory as a resource channel partners can call on. Microsoft also promised to respond to emails sent to a deal hotline within 24 hours. A simple instruction accompanies the offer: “Don’t lose” in competitive situations. Microsoft does not want to lose because it is now measuring itself in two ways: by staying ahead of the market and not losing share to the competition according to the PowerPoint.