The collaborative venture between Microsoft and Facebook in the area of Office documents called Docs.com, received a boost last week with the announcement by Microsoft of the availability of support for Facebook fab pages. With the new addition, administrators of Facebook fan pages will be able to disseminate Office docs as a supplement to their existing Web pages, said PC Magazine.
For more, see pcmag.com
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
Foxit Reader 4.0 is a free safe PDF Reader alternative to Adobe Acrobat.
For most people, when the need arise to work with Adobe PDF files, it became almost like second nature to use Adobe Acrobat Reader which dominate the market in that category.Licensing fees and recent widely publicised security concerns linked to the Adobe Acrobat, have made it opportune for some PDF Reader alternatives to be given a second look by users.
Heavy weights like Google have gotten into the act with the search giant release of Google Reader as part of its Google Docs. Beside Google, some much less known players like Foxit Sofware have their own free PDF Readers.
Foxit Software recently announced the release of its recent version of its free PDF Reader called Foxit Reader 4.0.
According to AppScout, Foxit version 4.0 reader allow users to do comment, spell check documents collaboration, to populate PDF forms all that with a multi-level security and multimedia support.
For more, see AppScout.com
Heavy weights like Google have gotten into the act with the search giant release of Google Reader as part of its Google Docs. Beside Google, some much less known players like Foxit Sofware have their own free PDF Readers.
Foxit Software recently announced the release of its recent version of its free PDF Reader called Foxit Reader 4.0.
According to AppScout, Foxit version 4.0 reader allow users to do comment, spell check documents collaboration, to populate PDF forms all that with a multi-level security and multimedia support.
For more, see AppScout.com
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Microsoft Office Suite 2010 is released for businesses customers..
Microsoft started selling its Office Suite 2010 to businesses customers with the noticeable inclusion of Web friendly features of the main components of the software.
That constitutes a radical shift from the software giant company which is being forced to jump unto the new trend of releasing applications on the Web instead of having people install them on their machines. But don't hold your breath yet since Microsoft foray into cloud computing as that new technical trend is called, is very tentative for now. Unlike Google Docs, Google competing document editing software entirely based on the Web, Microsoft is not giving away its cash caw that accounted for close to 60% of its operating profit during the last fiscal year.
Even thought Office Suite 2010 for for businesses contain a Web version of Excel, Word and others Office applications that will reside in users' browsers instead of their machines allowing them to collaboratively edit documents, the bulk of the program will still need the traditional machine installation. One of the components of the program that will fall in that category is a new Outlook email feature that can access information from Facebook and others social networks to give users a glimpse of what their email recipients are up to online, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The paid version of Office Suite 2010 for businesses will run from $100 to several hundred per users per year and usually require the purchase of additional software to enable collaboration between users.
For consumers, Microsoft is giving away a free Web lite version of Office Suite 2010 that contains advertisements, the Wall Street Journal notes.
For more, see WSJ.com
That constitutes a radical shift from the software giant company which is being forced to jump unto the new trend of releasing applications on the Web instead of having people install them on their machines. But don't hold your breath yet since Microsoft foray into cloud computing as that new technical trend is called, is very tentative for now. Unlike Google Docs, Google competing document editing software entirely based on the Web, Microsoft is not giving away its cash caw that accounted for close to 60% of its operating profit during the last fiscal year.
Even thought Office Suite 2010 for for businesses contain a Web version of Excel, Word and others Office applications that will reside in users' browsers instead of their machines allowing them to collaboratively edit documents, the bulk of the program will still need the traditional machine installation. One of the components of the program that will fall in that category is a new Outlook email feature that can access information from Facebook and others social networks to give users a glimpse of what their email recipients are up to online, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The paid version of Office Suite 2010 for businesses will run from $100 to several hundred per users per year and usually require the purchase of additional software to enable collaboration between users.
For consumers, Microsoft is giving away a free Web lite version of Office Suite 2010 that contains advertisements, the Wall Street Journal notes.
For more, see WSJ.com
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Scaled down Microsoft Office to be offered free Online.
The ever going battle between Microsoft and Google has reached a new phase with the software giant planning to offer a free Online version of its most prized possession, Office software. Even though the version being considered is a scaled-down of the original one, it is still a significant development in the evolution of Microsoft who until now has resisted the latest fade known as "Cloud Computing" which consits of offering entire applications via the net instead of having them hosted in users' PC.
But with the search giant Google entering the office productivity field with its free Online application called Google Docs, Microsoft recognized the potential for further erosion in its core business as more people become more comfortable with Web-based applications.
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Office's free Online version is expected to be available to the general public, in the first half of 2010.
For more , see WSJ.com
But with the search giant Google entering the office productivity field with its free Online application called Google Docs, Microsoft recognized the potential for further erosion in its core business as more people become more comfortable with Web-based applications.
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Office's free Online version is expected to be available to the general public, in the first half of 2010.
For more , see WSJ.com
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