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Google Apps Sync for Outlook Syncs Outlook with Google Apps
Good -- no, great -- news for Google Apps users: Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook enables Outlook users to synchronize their e-mail, contacts, and calendars with you guessed it Google Apps. That means it has the potential to replace pricey Exchange in your cash-strapped organization. There's...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2009-06-10
Google Screws Up Another Enterprise Charge with Outlook Sync [UPDATED]
Google was touting its new approach to making Google Apps work with Microsoft Oulook. But it now appears that Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook may disable Outlook's ability to search any data. If Microsoft is being up and up about the bug report, then it's another example of how...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2009-06-17

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Live Webcast: Showdown in New Mexico: Google Apps vs. Microsoft Exchange
James Ferreira, CIO for the New Mexico State Attorney General's office, had a choice to make to support his growing organization: upgrade to a more costly enterprise license for Microsoft Exchange or find a business grade alternative at a better price. Ferreira investigated his options, searching for something with ample...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Webcast, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
Webcasts 2009-10-20
Microsoft Pits Groove Vs. Google Apps For SharePoint 2010
There's no one in the world better equipped to discuss Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration software than Jeff Teper, corporate vice president of the Office Business Platform, who started the SharePoint team 10 years ago. I spoke with Teper ahead of Microsoft's SharePoint Conference, where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed the public...
Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft SharePoint, Google Apps
News items 2009-10-20
Microsoft's Web Apps Give Older Office Versions Some Difficulty
Microsoft's Office Web Apps allow access to browser-based versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. However, testing of the platform?s technical preview by eWEEK found that documents from older versions of Office, once uploaded to Web Apps, could not be edited online. This could present issues for users wanting to...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Web Application
News items 2009-10-30
Zoho Integrates Google Apps and Keeps Step with the Giants
Zoho is now offering full integration with Google Apps, allowing users to access Google Docs seamlessly from within the Zoho environment. It's another move by Zoho to compete in the big leagues with the giants of the business through integrations that allow for seamless interplay.  Zoho has...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Zoho
News items 2009-12-02
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Is Released at PDC
Microsoft released the public beta version of Office 2010, hoping to collect feedback from users ahead of the productivity suite's general release sometime in early 2010. While Microsoft Office has traditionally been a desktop-centric platform, new functionality connects its various applications to the Web in new ways, particularly the Outlook...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
News items 2009-11-20
French Government Chooses Mozilla To Replace IBM and Microsoft For 130,000 Desktop PC's
The French Government's public finance department will switch 130,000 desktop PC's to Mozilla's email and calendar applications. Mozilla's Thunderbird email service, Lightning Calendar and an open-source groupware will replace IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office. The move signals how more government agencies from around...
Tags: Google Inc., open source, e-mail, Mozilla Corp.
News items 2009-10-30
OffiSync Adds Google Sites Support to Target Microsoft SharePoint
Gunning for Microsoft SharePoint, OffiSync Nov. 10 launched a paid version of its Microsoft Office plug-in that let users access their Microsoft Office documents from the Google Sites wiki.OffiSync, which has hundreds of thousands of users, is brave for targeting SharePoint, the killer collaboration application that earns Microsoft $1 billion...
Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint
News items 2009-11-10
Microsoft questions Google Apps' momentum as it touts 1M online business suite customers
Computerworld - Microsoft Corp. is slashing the price of its Business Productivity Online Suite BPOS by a third as it debuts the service in 15 new countries. A Microsoft executive also touted BPOS' momentum, while questioning figures trumpeted by Google for its rival Google Apps suite. BPOS, which includes Web-hosted...
News items 2009-11-02
Four Ways Google Is Killing Microsoft
Google has engaged Microsoft in a long-term death-match on a series of fronts, as Dan Frommer and Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider noted this morning, in a piece on ten areas that Google and Microsoft are fighting it out. But I disagree with four areas where...
Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Marketing, Software, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-07-27
The Google, Microsoft Data Portability Duel
The Google, Microsoft Data Portability Duel( Page 1 of 2 )Google and Microsoft Oct. 26 made key moves to their messaging and collaboration applications in the name of data portability. Google has begun allowing users to export multiple Google Docs at the same time. Microsoft released documentation for the .pst...
Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Docs
News items 2009-10-27
Handicapping Microsoft And Google's Online Collision
Now that Microsoft has given its partners a limited preview of its Office applications suite,  the race to dominate the market for online productivity tools has officially begun. On the face of it, despite its tardy entry to this race Microsoft has an enormous head start because...
Tags: Google Inc., Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Quality, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-09-29
Google Apps ad campaign goes global
Google is to expand a mass-market advertising campaign for its cloud-based office software services beyond the US today. The "Gone Google" campaign, which includes the UK, France, Canada, Australia and Japan, is aimed at luring businesses away from traditional office software supplied by Microsoft and IBM. The US campaign, which...
Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google Apps
News items 2009-10-19
Google using 'double talk' on cloud security, says L.A. consumer group
Computerworld - A consumer advocacy group that is opposed to a plan by the city of Los Angeles to adopt Google's hosted e-mail and office applications is accusing the company of a double standard on security issues. In a letter to Bernard Parks, chairman of the Los Angeles City Council's...
Tags: Google Inc., city
News items 2009-10-15
Google's Long Shot At Kicking Microsoft Off The Desktop
I recently described how Google's Wave, a collaboration tool based on the new HTML 5 standard, demonstrates the potential for Web applications to unglue Microsoft's hold on customers. My post quoted Gary Edwards, the former president of the Open Document Foundation, a first-hand witness to the failed attempt by Massachusetts...
Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-06-04
Start Using Microsoft Office Web Apps -- Today
It's no secret that Microsoft has been cooking up a Google Docs-like online version of Office for some time. It's called Office Web Apps and all the heavy hitters from the Office suite are represented here -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote -- all in online form, storing your documents...
Tags: Web Application, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-09-21
Rentokil deploys Google Apps to 78,000
Rentokil Initial has become one of the largest user of Google Apps, rolling out the cloud-based office suite to 35,000 users globally. Rentokill plans to use Google to consolidate 40 email systems including open source products and Microsoft Exchange, into a single email system. The complex setup prevented staff from...
Tags: Google Inc., e-mail, Google Apps, Rentokil Initial Plc.
News items 2009-10-12
How Google Apps Could Cost Microsoft Up to $18 Billion in Value
Third Party Feed: Media Tech Analyst submits: Gauging the Financial Impact of Free Microsoft Office Responding to Google’s GOOG competitive threat on its cash cow, Microsoft MSFT decided to offer free web versions of its MS Office, either through an online version similar to Google Apps, or...
Tags: Software, Media Tech Analyst, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
External links 2009-07-20
Microsoft Previews Google Apps Killer to Beta Testers
TechCrunch submits: By Leena Rao Imitation isn’t always the sincerest form of flattery, and this is certainly the case for Microsoft MSFT in the development and launch of its web-based browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. All based in the cloud, the web-based versions...
Tags: Internet, TechCrunch, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
External links 2009-09-17
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