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Google Quickoffice App Now Supports Editing Microsoft Office...

Google has updated its Quickoffice iOS app with support for editing Microsoft Office documents on the iPhone. Quickoffice makes it easy to create, edit, and view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on your iPad and iPhone. This ve [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2013 | Comments : 0

TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Office follows the cloud to take on Go...

While profits from Office productivity software such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel are a main driver of its business, Microsoft has a challenge in getting people to upgrade to new versions. Not only do the previous iterations still work w [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2013 | Comments : 0

Keeping Score: Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office 365 in Busin...

The Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps war continues to escallate. Amid the ongoing battle, it seems like Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is enjoying particularly strong momentum in the government market -- even though Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) co [...]

Posted On : Jan, 04 2013 | Comments : 0

Microsoft lashes out at Google’s decision to spurn Windows P...

Dave Heiner, vice president and deputy general counsel for Microsoft (MSFT), took aim at Google (GOOG) and the company’s unwillingness to develop for Windows Phone 8 in a blog post on Wednesday. Heiner claims that, “Google con [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2013 | Comments : 0

Google Quickoffice Opens Up MS Office On Apple iPad

Google has launched a new Quickoffice iPad app so that users of Apps for Business can open and edit Microsoft Office documents on their iPads. The new capabilities were announced in a 19 December post on the Google Enterprise Blog by Jona [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

'Microsoft Office 365 better than Google Apps'

NEW DELHI: Unilog Content Solutions have recently deployed Microsoft Office 365 across its offices in Bangalore, Mysore, and Philadelphia. To improve reliability and communications and reduce costs, Unilog evaluated hosted solutions from [...]

Posted On : Sep, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Google Drive will help kill Microsoft Office

While Google's productivity application suites, Docs (now incorporated into Drive) and Apps (for businesses), have been making some headway into Microsoft Office's territory, the important battlefield is not the application. It [...]

Posted On : Apr, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Major university chooses Google Apps over Microsoft Office 3...

Organizations everywhere are debating the best way to migrate systems to the cloud. And one of the biggest decisions they face is the best cloud provider for their needs. The University of California-Berkeley just went through an exhausti [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Office 365 Vs. Google Apps: Compliance Clash

Microsoft on Wednesday declared that Office 365 is the "first and only major cloud productivity service to comply with leading EU and U.S. standards for data protection and security."There are, of course, not many "major cl [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Google enters Microsoft office’s turf with mixed results

Michael O’Brien, vice president for information technology at Journal Communications, would prefer not to have the employees of the Milwaukee media company use Microsoft’s Office software any more. He has installed Google A [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Google (Docs) vs Microsoft (Office 365)

Until recently, the lines were rather firmly drawn in the sand when it came to office productivity suites. If you wanted to go the desktop way, you chose Microsoft . Online, it was a toss-up between Google Apps or Zoho Docs. But with the [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

General Motors Chooses Google Apps over Microsoft Office 365

Google has reportedly inked an agreement to provide General Motors Corp. with the Google Apps cloud-based e-mail and collaboration suite for more than 100,000 employees. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal Friday, Google h [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Google, Microsoft cloud crashes: Is this the new normal?

Purveyors of cloud computing can promise users a lot of advantages, but one thing they can’t brag about is uptime. In recent days, both Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365 suffered outages, adding to a string of incidents in which [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps More Different Than The Sa...

Over the past several years, one of the most-watched, and yet least substantial, business application rivalries has been that between Microsoft and Google. In one corner, we ve had Microsoft, with its lineup of ubiquitous, category-defini [...]