Showing that it's more than a little interested in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Internet, Google said on Thursday that it has snapped up Writely, a maker of a Web-based word processor.
Google announced a tool called Ad Planner on Tuesday that lets advertisers find websites whose visitors match various demographic attributes.
The Google Docs' word processor will be the first Google app to be made available offline using the free Google Gears extension, which means users will soon be able to read and edit their documents even without an Internet connection.
Although it has missed its original February release target, the public beta release of version 8.0 of IBM's Lotus Notes collaboration and e-mail platform will be made available in early March.
Google is set to launch this week a Web-based spreadsheet program that will allow people to view and simultaneously edit data while conducting "in-document" chat, a company product manager said on Monday.
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This blog is supposed to be about the concept that is called Web 2.0, so I suppose I had better take a stab at defining it.
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Sun would like to think it can succeed where others have failed,,"in breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the office productivity market,"by offering a product that's almost as good as Microsoft Office at a much lower price. Do the sums add up?
The next version of Microsoft Office is due in the next year or so. If you were product manager for the industry-standard office suite, what would you add? What would you get rid of? What would you fix?
Forget Google and Zoho, it will be Microsoft that takes the online word processor to the masses.
Google is diving further into the Web-based productivity-applications market by offering a new product that combines its online word-processing and spreadsheet programs.
OpenOffice.org developers have put the finishing touches on their productivity suite, which provides users and businesses with an alternative to Microsoft's Office suite.
As entry-level productivity software, Works 8.0 is a bargain, but it will frustrate power users looking to save a buck.
If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
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