The long-term shift toward Web-based software is apparently taking a bit longer than expected. According to a new survey from research outfit NPD, 73% of PC users have never tried a Web-based office productivity suite. And of those who have, only a paltry 0.5% have been impressed enough to abandon their desktop office applications.
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The battle for supremacy in the online office productivity and collaboration space won’t be fought in the “cloud” as Google and IBM claim, but on the desktop.
Says who? Says Microsoft, that’s who. And with a 95% share of the productivity software market, according to research firm International Data Corp., who’s to argue?
This morning Microsoft [...]
It’s been nearly two years since Sun and Google announced their “historic” partnership–”The Great Anticlimax of 2005,” as we like to refer to it around here–a union that some believed would push the Information Age off the desktop and onto the Internet. As it happened, the only thing the partnership pushed off the desktop was a yawner of a press release announcing that the Google Toolbar would henceforth be available as a Java Runtime Environment download option.
Contrary to Microsoft statements issued, oh, just about six weeks ago, Office 2008 for Mac will not ship by the end of the year. Instead, the first major release of the productivity suite since 2004 will arrive at market in mid-January 2008. “There was no one thing that caused the push—it was more of a [...]
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1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
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