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No Signal Despite Claims ; Tech Heads
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| If Microsoft Office is too expensive, and OpenOffice.org is
| too hefty, try Lotus Symphony.
|
| Symphony is a free office suite featuring a word processor,
| spreadsheet and presentation software. It uses the Open
| Document Format but is also compatible with most a
| Microsoft formats like .doc and .xls and, even better, it's
| multi-platform - there areversions for Windows, Mac and
| Linux.
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http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3505587
Fed plan helps Google in cloud race with Microsoft
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| Google Inc.'s plan to design a set of cloud services for
| federal government agencies could give the company a boost
| in its effort to take on Microsoft Corp. on the desktop.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/343392/Fed_Plan_Helps_Google_in_Cloud_Race_With_Microsoft?taxonomyId=65
Google Chrome Is a Lock for 10% Share, but How Much More?
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| Google Chrome could easily reach 10 percent market share by
| 2011, but it could do more than that by being bundled with
| PCs by Sony, HP, Dell and Lenovo. Every analyst eWEEK
| polled said that while the Sony deal gives Google a toehold
| in PC bundling, it isn't enough for Google and high-tech
| watchers to get excited over. PC manufacturers, which have
| nothing but dumb boxes of metal, plastic and silicon
| without an OS to support them, could fear spurning
| Microsoft by going with Chrome.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Google-Chrome-Is-a-Lock-For-10-Share-But-How-Much-More-605145/
Microsoft takes notice as more people use free Google Docs
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| No one knows how fast the market for online productivity
| programs will grow. IBM sells Lotus Symphony and Lotus Live
| as an online suite; Zoho offers free Office-like tools
| popular with students.
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-09-21-google-docs-microsoft_N.htm
Google barks back at Microsoft over Chrome Frame security
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| Google hit back at Microsoft today, defending the security
| of its new Chrome Frame plug-in and claiming that the
| software actually makes Internet Explorer (IE) safer and
| more secure.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138522/Google_barks_back_at_Microsoft_over_Chrome_Frame_security
IE 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
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| According to tests run by Computerworld , Internet Explorer
| 8 (IE8) was 9.6 times faster than IE8 on its own.
| Computerworld ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite
| three times each for IE8 with Chrome Frame, and IE8 without
| the plug-in, then averaged the scores.
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http://news.techworld.com/networking/3202572/internet-explorer-8-runs-ten-times-faster-with-google-chrome-plug-in/
Recent:
NZ Post trials open source on desktops
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| The project is about freedom and diversity in the choice of operating
| systems, not about specifically moving towards an open-source desktop, says
| NZ Postâs technology innovation manager, Barry Polley. NZ Post already uses
| some open source software, for example Red Hat Linux in the companyâs
| datacentre, but not on the desktop.
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| NZ Post is the only government-owned agency that has gone public on its
| participation in the Remix open-source public-sector desktop programme (see
| page 14), coordinated by the New Zealand Open Source Society (NZOSS).
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/83C4710E299C3A1BCC257623001997DC
NZ Post: why we chose Google over Microsoft
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| She was also drawn to Google Apps features, figuring they can yield a further
| $1 million saving by dint of productivity gains. While staff have document
| collaboration capability with todayâs Microsoft products, Google Apps makes
| it easier to share a file, or for more than one person, in more than one
| place, to work on a document. Google Apps will also see NZ Post use IM and
| desktop video (again, also available in Microsoft iterations) for the first
| time.
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http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/nz-post-why-we-chose-google-over-microsoft-106080
Google Apps oust Microsoft at Postal Services Group
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| NZ Post unit to ditch Outlook, Exchange and probably SharePoint for 2,100
| workers
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/28C1A6D0FAAF2B3ECC2575F9001536DA
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