Rivals make run at Microsoft Office
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| The computing giant, which has been challenging Microsoft's desktop dominance
| for years, said that Lotus Symphony is a standards-based alternative to
| Microsoft's proprietary Office.
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| Separately, on Monday afternoon, Yahoo said that it paid $350 million to
| acquire Zimbra, a start-up that developed a Web-based e-mail and
| collaboration package comparable with Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.
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| Meanwhile, Google on Monday introduced Google Presentations, an online
| version of Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation application that complements
| Google's Web-hosted document editor and spreadsheet.
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Rivals make run at Microsoft Office
IBM giving away social networking
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| The IBM Symphony tools the company is now giving users free is aimed at
| nothing less than jump-starting a social revolution in the workplace.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1439
IBM adds e-mail to hosted software offerings
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| Customers get everything they need over the Web without having to purchase
| anything up front. They pay monthly for the software.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070918/wr_nm/ibm_lotus_dc
Google Presentations beta steals wind from Powerpoint sails
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| As Google continues to deny that it is building a stable of online Microsoft
| Office competitors, the rhetoric continues to sound increasingly hollow with
| the launch of an online tool obviously designed to steal some of the wind
| from Microsoft's Powerpoint sails.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14509/1054/
Related:
Google Apps Catches Flak
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| Microsoft is launching an anti-Google propaganda campaign.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/09/11/google-apps-catches-flak/?mod=yahoo_hs
Microsoft Retaliates With 10 Reasons Not To Use Google Apps
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| This, of course, brought Google even closer to rivaling Microsoft's Office
| suite, which has now spurred a reaction from the Redmond software giant.
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| No, its not new software or updates for the popular productivity suite, but
| rather Microsoft's own reasoning on why businesses should NOT use Google
| Apps.
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http://www.profy.com/2007/09/11/microsoft-retaliates-with-10-reasons-not-to-use-google-apps/
Will Google Loosen Microsoft's Grip on Large Enterprise?
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| It’s got to be frustrating to sit in Redmond today and watch the world go by
| without having much of a grip on it anymore.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070910/46884_id.html?.v=1
Out of the office
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| Nobody's better at defending its turf than Microsoft of course, so this will
| not be a quick or easy war.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/commentary-watch-out-microsoft-google/story.aspx?guid=%7BD0EF1345-0BC4-459A-A780-8F861CEEAE40%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2lxuct
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