today i was digging for some info on marketing companies and came across the following section they are usually portrayed as pretty boring big companies in the mainstream press and the press also seems to prefer to accentuate the negative where both vendors a lternatives and now cloudsoft wareasa service stuff of course in reality microsoft and o......
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excerpt from a forrester snapshot on office web applications microsoft is trying to evolve to keep its dominance in desktop productivity and maintain relevance. more continues here related posts microsoft finally unveils browserbased office apps microsoft unveils webbased office apps forrester rias will replace microsoft office portals on front end microsoft to fight google ap......
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im attending oracle openworld this week thanks to 1. living down the street from moscone center in san francisco 2. oracle providing me a pressblogger credential. thanks one of the biggest announcements this week is oracle beehive a new system built from scratch that attempts to tie together multiple communication and collaboration tools within an organization and give t......
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in january the burton group released their analysis which strongly favored ooxml over odf. it caught many people by surprise and had me rethinking many assumptions which i had taken at face value. now stuart mckee a microsoft national technology officer has announced that odf has clearly won. the pronouncement couldnt have been presented at a more nonmicrosoft venue......
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microsoft withdrawing its offer to buy yahoo is a sufficiently large story to demonstrate the problem of redundant news content on the web. google news is currently tracking about 2000 versions of this story. to get a better sense of why its a problem to have 2000 stories about the same thing ive reproduced about ten percent of them below just the headlines and ledes. if......
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at eclipsecon this week microsoft announced cooperation with eclipse among other things supporting the swt technologies on vistas presentation framework effectively allowing eclipse developers to generate guis for vista. like many of their recent announcements concerning interoperability and open source some observers are enthusiastic while others criticize the fact they d......
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boing boing placed an observative post today on i cringely . the pulpit . antisocial pbs heres a quick excerpt another timely and insightful cringely reality check see the full post for more contextsettinga marshall mcluhan argued that obsolete communication technologies survive as art forms. this is true id say for morse code and movable type printing and perhaps even......
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i saw this post last week when i was trying to catch up from my recent travels peter oke lly s reality check toshibas hddvd going the way of betamax technology reuters . i have been waiting to see who would win the war. anyway i decided to wait and see who might win and i was glad i did. this weekend i was at one of the warehouse stores and they had both the sony......
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