Posts Tagged ‘office’

Will Microsoft Crumble In The New Era Of Tech Threats?

Recently, numerous posts have been found on the web heralding the end of Microsoft, in a world where cloud-based initiatives are gaining traction, and Microsoft is seen as not grokking the cloud. One of the more visible of these arguments came from Marc Benioff , Salesforce.com’s outspoken chairman and CEO, who was previously a top executive at Oracle

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Will Microsoft Crumble In The New Era Of Tech Threats?

Are Google’s Productivity Apps Really Competitive With Microsoft’s?

Today, in a piece called ” Google-Microsoft rivalry comes down to clouds or software ,”  ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn considers the specific advantages that Google and Microsoft have relative to each other.

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Are Google’s Productivity Apps Really Competitive With Microsoft’s?

OpenOffice.org Still Kicking

Reports to contrary , the launch of Microsoft Office 2010 doesn’t mean that OpenOffice.org is dead — or even wounded.

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OpenOffice.org Still Kicking

OpenOffice.org Still Kicking

Reports to contrary , the launch of Microsoft Office 2010 doesn’t mean that OpenOffice.org is dead — or even wounded.

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OpenOffice.org Still Kicking

Myths Debunked: Why It Isn’t So Tough To Switch To Open Source

Can businesses and organizations paying for expensive licenses for proprietary software successfully switch to free, open source alternatives? If you ask many IT managers about that, they’ll cite two common reasons why the answer is no, including “lack of adequate support” and “insufficient documentation.” Or, as discussed in this post , inexplicable bugs in open source software can outrule the switch.

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Myths Debunked: Why It Isn’t So Tough To Switch To Open Source