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Archive for the ‘Office Live’ Category

August 30th, 2006

Google Moving Into Office Space

TechCrunch highlights that Google has launched a collection of their apps to be used as a virtual office space for domains.

Gmail
Google Talk
Google Calendar
Google Page Creator
Writely (Coming Soon?)
Google Spreadsheet (Coming Soon?)

Interesting concept and a very logical one at that. I only use two of the above apps (Gmail & Google Talk) on any type of regular […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

August 14th, 2006

Windows Live Writer Review

I’m currently using Windows Live Writer to write this review.
The installation procedure was very straight forward and simple to manuever through and manage. There were a number of windows asking for information. I really wish installation procedures would combine information requests onto a single form, is this not possible?
The interface is very minimal and sparse, which […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

August 14th, 2006

Live Writer vs. Word 2007 Blogging

There seems to be a Blogging Grudge Match taking place internally at Microsoft.
In this corner, weighing in at $FREE and single install of just 4.74MB, Microsoft just released Windows Live Writer, a stand alone blogging application that works with a variety of blog platforms.
And in the other corner, weighing in at $HUNDREDS and a massive […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

July 14th, 2006

WebOffice from WebEx

Just saw an advertisement from WebEx for a WebOffice product. Has anyone had any experience with this application?
Easily share documents, calendars, databases and more with your entire organization – from anywhere – plus host real-time web meetings. That’s a WebOffice!
From that description, seems like it could be pretty useful. Again though, I just […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

July 14th, 2006

Windows Live Mail

I frequently get requests from people in the comments to get them a Windows Live Mail invitation. I don’t have any available to give out, if I did you all would be the first to know and the first to have an option to get them from me.
Trust me! When I get them, I’ll post […]

By Jason -- 3 comments

May 17th, 2006

Google Notebook

Okay, this isn’t really a full-blown online office suite app, but it’s got some functionality like that of Microsoft’s OneNote and your basic Notepad program and basic clip board functionality.
Google Notebook is now available:
Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds – from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car […]

By Jason -- 2 comments

May 17th, 2006

More Blogs on the Way?

With the announcement that Word 2007 will have built-in blogging support, do you believe this will dramatically increase the amount of blogging activity? It’s not like blogs are slowing down at any point, but how much more of an impact would this have on the blogosphere?
I’ve begun playing around with 3rd party blog editing tools […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

May 17th, 2006

Sharepoint Conference in Full Swing

For the first time ever, there is a Microsoft conference specifically about Sharepoint. It’s the Microsoft Sharepoint Conference 2006 (I know, I know, very original name). Anyway, this is the first ever and Bill Gates himself gave the opening keynote address.
Thanks to Milo for the heads up, he’s attending in person and will be giving […]

By Jason -- 2 comments

May 10th, 2006

Office Live Adds More Outlook Support

Essentials inboxes now have email, contacts, and calendar access enabled for Microsoft Office Outlook connector. What is that you say? Outlook Connector (download it here if you have inbox created via your Essentials subscription) is an add-on for Outlook which will allow you to connect directly to your Office Live inbox using Microsoft […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

May 1st, 2006

More Office Competitors Online

I think I’ve decided that along with news becoming available about Office 12, I’m going to also attempt to cover any developments related to “Office like” applications becoming available on the web or off in the marketplate.
For the first entry, we’ll discuss ThinkFree hailed as “The best online office on earth”.
ThinkFree, developed by South Korea’s […]

By Jason -- 0 comments