After a couple of months of relative peaceful, the war of words and customer wins is on once more,
Office Enterprise 2007, with Microsoft and Google battling over which corporation is going to be a lot more productive in providing workplace applications more than the Web.On November 17,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, Microsoft is launching one component of its Software + Services strategy this week: the last variations of its Microsoft-hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint. Microsoft is launching two of its growing family members of Microsoft Internet companies at an event in San Francisco,
Windows 7 Ultimate, according to business officials.Last week, Google touted a few corporate users who had switched from Microsoft software program to Google Apps. In the same time, independent researchers (a number of of whom formerly worked at Microsoft) released a examine — not paid for by Microsoft — showing that Google;s Web-hosted productivity oferings weren;t gaining traction with corporate customers. The examine, from a firm called ClickStream,
Office 2007, found that OpenOffice was five times extra popular than Google Docs.Google officials have said they have “millions” of consumers of Google Docs and Google Apps. But as a BusinessWeek story recently noted, Google still doesn;t seem to have many corporate, paying end users for its hosted productivity apps.Microsoft has been floundering, in terms of how and when to provide its customers with the option of running its Office consumer and server family members of products during the cloud.Until recently, Microsoft was focused on adding on-line collaboration functionality to Workplace by way of its Office Live Workspace technology, which is currently in beta. But at the end of October, Microsoft officials announced the enterprise also was planning to release a Web-based version of some of its Office 14 applications that is going to be able to work inside of a variety of browsers, including World wide web Explorer, Safari and Firefox.The first private test release of Office Web Applications, as they are being called, is due out before the end of 2008. (Microsoft hasn;t provided a recent update on when Office 14 will ship; until recently it was looking like 2009, but some are now saying early 2010 is extra most likely.)it;s hard to know the extent to which Microsoft;s Office Internet apps will provide all of the identical features and functionality as in Microsoft Workplace 14, since couple of,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, if any, users have had a chance to try out the code. I had been hearing talk that documents created in Workplace Internet Apps would not be able to be saved directly to a local PC. When I asked Microsoft officials, they said Office Web Apps documents would need to become saved first to SharePoint Workspace before being downloaded to a local machine. After a test version is out, extra “quirks” like this will no doubt be discovered.Corporate users: Are you interested in test-driving web-based productivity solutions from Microsoft and/or Google? What are your must-haves before you deploy these kinds of solutions?