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HyperSpace Adds ThinkFree: Fastest Booting Office Yet?
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| Phoenix just announced a partnership with Haansoft to include the Java-based
| ThinkFree productivity suite in HyperSpace. This adds the ability to quickly
| boot up and jump right in to a full-featured, Microsoft Office-compatible
| toolset for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Up till now, your only
| productivity suite option in HyperSpace was for a web-based service like Zoho
| Office or Google Docs.
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http://jkontherun.com/2009/03/02/hyperspace-and-thinkfree-fastest-booting-office-yet/
Recent:
ThinkFree Office: Running on Ubuntu 8.04!
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| ThinkFree Office is a very good application, and if you are interested in
| trying something other than OpenOffice or IBM’s Lotus Notes, certainly give
| this office suite a try. It’s connection to an online office workspace backs
| up your documents, and can then be accessed on any computer connected to the
| internet.
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http://jonreagan.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/thinkfree-office-running-on-ubuntu-804/
ThinkFree Office: Powerful, familiar office suite for Windows, Mac, and Linux
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| Office suites like Google Docs and Zoho Office have been busy adding offline
| access to let you access and edit spreadsheets, text, and presentation
| documents in a web browser whether you're connected to the internet or not.
| But paying ThinkFree customers have had this ability since last year.
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| That's because ThinkFree offers two products: an online, web-based office
| suite and a Microsoft Office-compatible suite for the desktop. Users can
| synchronize data between the web service and their desktops. But up until
| this week, users had to pay $50 for access to the desktop software. Now, as
| expected, ThinkFree has launched a free version of its desktop software.
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http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/08/thinkfree-office-powerful-familiar-office-suite-for-windows-m/
Related:
ThinkFree office suite goes offline
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| ThinkFree Premium runs on Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers,
| and requires Windows, Mac OS X or Linux.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/061907-thinkfree-office-suite-goes.html
Adobe may launch Office rival
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| Adobe is pumping significant resources into Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR,
| formerly known as Apollo), which gives developers a way to take code written
| for the web browser and repurpose it for the desktop.
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| It is the AIR platform which excites many observers, and which could give
| Adobe a solid starting point for the launch of office applications.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39288562,00.htm?r=6
No Demand For Browser-Based Microsoft Office?
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| Raikes said the browser-based application space is extremely
| important to watch, but there is not a lot of demand now for
| Microsoft Office in the cloud.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070427/33730_id.html?.v=1
Older:
Google Docs & Spreadsheets vs Microsoft Office
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| This philosophy transferred to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, so that's
| why it's unfair to compare it to Microsoft Office. Even if they'll add
| more features (charts in Google Spreadsheets, pagination in Google
| Docs), the products won't try to be an imitation of a desktop
| product, but something that can be done on the web and takes
| advantage of the huge power of the web: collaboration, instant
| feedback, mashups, live data from the web, contextual search.
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http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/02/google-docs-spreadsheets-vs-microsoft.html
Google manager: Google Apps replaced Microsoft Office at 100,000 businesses
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| Google's newly released online productivity suite Google Apps has
| already replaced Microsoft Office at more than 100,000 small to
| medium enterprises and has been deployed at two of the largest
| companies in the world, according to the search leader's
| enterprise product boss.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/9889/53/
Dumping Office for Google Apps
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| Google has a friend in Disney, and that could leave Microsoft screaming
| like a jilted lover.
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http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/02/07/dumping-office-for-google-apps/
Microsoft prunes its Windows Live line-up
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| What to make of these changes? Is Microsoft starting to get its Windows
| Live branding house in order? Is the company simply beginning a long
| overdue "Windows Live" purge, much like the quiet .Net naming purge
| conducted a few years back? Or is Microsoft actually starting to kill
| off actual services and not just ill-chosen names?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=391
Microsoft Windows Live VP to resign
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| Blake Irving, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Windows
| Live Platform group, is resigning his post, according to sources
| close to the company.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=296
Is Windows Live dying?
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| Over the last year, Microsoft's Windows Live service lineup has
| grown exponentially. At one point months ago, it seemed clear
| that every service Microsoft brought online would fall under the
| Live brand, but lately the trend seems to be moving slowly in
| the opposite direction. What's happening to Windows Live?
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/2/20/7154
Sources: Several Windows Live Projects Halted
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| Microsoft's Windows Live desktop search project has been
| shelved "indefinitely," although not much reasoning has been
| given as to the reason for its demise.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Sources_Several_Windows_Live_Projects_Halted/1163715423
Microsoft Office Live migration is adding insult to injury
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| On January 29, Microsoft posted to the Office Live blog a status update
| re: the migration. The news isn't good.
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| Office Live logoBeta testers are still potentially "months" away fromb
| eing migrated to the final version of their Office Live services.
| Functionality like backup and restore isn't going to work until
| their accounts are migrated. And Microsoft will give testers only
| a 24-hour heads-up when they are set to be migrated. During that
| 24-hour period, users won't be able to make changes to their
| Office Live sites.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=243
Office Live: Better Off Dead?
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| Last month I killed Office Live in an act of self defense, after
| repeated access problems and attempts to move my domain to another
| registrar. Judging from the comments to that post, there's an Office
| Live killing spree going on. Not surprisingly, Microsoft wants to put
| an end to the wanton killing.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/office_live_better_off_dead.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/ybsz2o
Microsoft profit on slide
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| Some analysts are looking for any signs of improvement from
| Microsoft's internet division, which continues to lose market
| share in web search to Google.
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| Microsoft's online services group saw revenue fall for the last
| four quarters and posted a loss in the past three quarters while
| it shifted to a new internet advertising platform and overhauled
| the company's web properties.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21109542%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
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