Iongrid’s new Nexus software promises to bring your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets to your iPad with what it calls “pixel perfect” fidelity and in a way that won’t give IT or the compliance department a collective heart attack. Read More »
Collaboration
Microsoft has now launched Office 365, its suite of collaboration and office tools that aims to take on Google Apps for Business. But with a product that costs more than Google’s offering and is coming much later to market, will Office 365 be a success? Read More »
KnowledgeTree, a service that lets businesses collaborate on and manage documents in the cloud, is now offering an app for Android phones and tablets, and automatic synchronization between mobile and desktop devices. KnowledgeTree lets organizations manage documents, and it specializes in collaboration within Microsoft Office. Read More »
Microsoft Office is a tool found in most offices, so a tool that makes it easy to not only share documents through the cloud but to collaborate on them is a logical choice for many businesses. Central Desktop for Office is such a tool. Read More »
To coincide with the release of the desktop Office 2010 beta, Microsoft is finally embracing the web office with today’s release of Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps beta, a web version of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that augments or even replaces the… Read More »
As of today, Microsoft Office 2010 has officially left Technical Preview and is now in public beta, meaning that anybody can download it and take it for a spin. I was able to get an early look at the beta and want to relay… Read More »
My recent post “5 Web Office Considerations: Beyond the Buzz” garnered some thought-provoking comments, which got me pondering on the proper place for the web office suite (whether it is ThinkFree, Zoho or… Read More »
Microsoft collaboration software is the typical corporate tool of choice, which, by extension, means that the Windows version of Microsoft Office was the office productivity suite of choice. However, a recent update to Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac now enables Mac users to access… Read More »
Many users have a love/hate relationship with Microsoft Outlook — it’s the standard email and calendaring application in many organizations, yet it often doesn’t enable them to work as productively as they’d like, spawning a veritable cottage industry of add-ins. The Microsoft Office 2010… Read More »
Yesterday, the Web was abuzz with news of the Microsoft Office Web Apps launching to a limited number of users. I’ve been following developments in the web office applications sector for a while now and have been waiting to see how Microsoft would do… Read More »
When the Office 2010 Technical Preview was announced, Microsoft said that it also would be making web app versions of the Office suite available. My early excitement was tempered somewhat when I realized that the web apps would not be released simultaneously with the… Read More »
Most web workers have have stories of struggling to send large files around to their geographically-dispersed project team with the inevitable choking of network bandwidth. Even while online collaboration tools like SharePoint are used in many organizations, it’s almost impossible to escape emailing large Microsoft Office… Read More »