Submitted by It could be a pivotal week for Microsoft Office – or not. A new move by Google and a pending announcement from Microsoft are generating widespread speculation about the future of the Redmond company’s flagship productivity software and its competition.
Google is really lame indeed. All they want it to _try_ to hurt Microsoft. But at the same time, they mostly only target the Windows platform. Go Linux Google and leave us alone. You’re only good at making search engines anyway.
what?
Check out what Sun just announced as an on demand utility…
If Google jumps ship and helps Sun make an Office suite, will we finally see Apple contribute developers to an OS X port.
I’ve tried Pages as a Word Processor (I know its not intended to be) and its rather slow and buggy though I have successfully made many documents with it. Word runs fine, I guess, but it would be nice to have an Open Source alternative. It would also solve the problem of having a second spreadsheet app for the Mac. And the Apple Works suite is, I think, too far out-of-date.
There is so little to this article that it’s almost embarrassing…
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB113087065709485392,00.html
“Microsoft unveiled new Internet initiatives, including an online version of its Office suite and a service called Windows Live that will incorporate email, blogging and instant-messaging tools.”
“There is so little to this article that it’s almost embarrassing…”
editors want their writers to post articles everyday, even if they are speculating wildly.
Welcome to the new era
Google should just pour millions to further Ubuntu Linux’s desktop adoption.