Web Office

Web Office WidgetsPosted by Richard MacManus in Web 2.0 Explorer on Nov 20, 2006 7:36 PM Subscribe Alerts: Now that office software is becoming a big part of the Web landscape, were starting to see widgets (i.e. mini web apps) appear that have office functionality. The personalized start...[Read the rest]

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Google battles Microsoft: I heard the Google Enterprise troops last week at the NYC Googleplex gear up for intensified battle against Microsoft with the cry of 'Death to the hierarchy.' Google CEO Eric... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Nov 19, 2006 8:48 PM
Google to Microsoft Office: Search box trumps folders: Google CEO Eric Schmidt may publicly claim Google Apps are not designed as a 'replacement for (Microsoft) Office,' but in the go-to-market trenches, Google Enterprise is calling for nothing less... [Read the rest]; Posted by Donna Bogatin in Digital Markets on: Nov 15, 2006 4:18 AM
Bill Gates, 1; Scoble, 0: When it comes to the question of whether we're in another bubble or not, I have to agree with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, not former "Microsoft chief blogger" Robert Scoble. [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Nov 13, 2006 10:13 AM
Web office is about collaboration: The future of Web-based office tools isn't in displacing their offline cousins. Rather, it's in doing things that they don't do well. Once such niche is collaboration. [Read the rest]; Posted by Phil Windley in Between the Lines on: Nov 1, 2006 9:24 PM
Ray Ozzie's view of the Web Office: Prior to the Thirty Years of Public Key Cryptography event at the Computer History Museum, I caught up with Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie. Of course, I asked him... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Oct 27, 2006 12:43 AM
Web 2.0 Security Scares: For web-based businesses like Google and MySpace, AJAX flings open the door to new malware propagation methods few things are more scary than malicious attacks on the code of your... [Read the rest]; Posted by Richard MacManus in Web 2.0 Explorer on: Oct 19, 2006 3:04 AM
What I really said at Office 2.0: I just did an interview with Dan Farber at the Office 2.0 Conference, and surprised myself with what came out. What is Office 2.0? It's not shared spreadsheets; it's spreadsheets... [Read the rest]; Posted by Esther Dyson in Release 0.9 on: Oct 15, 2006 5:38 PM
Reflections on Office 2.0: I'm about to leave San Francisco following the Office 2.0 Conference and thought I'd share a few of the highlights and some reflection on what transpired over the past couple... [Read the rest]; Posted by Marc Orchant in Office Evolution on: Oct 14, 2006 4:37 PM
Office 2.0 meets the enterprise: The morning discussions at the Office 2.0 conference centered on bringing 2.0 (Web, Office, Enterprise, Lunch, Dinner, and my favorite, Work, etc.) into the mainstream of business usage. CIOs and... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Oct 12, 2006 11:24 AM
Will Google Office's solution to the "offline" problem mean trouble for MS-Office?: Fellow ZDNet blogger Garrett Rodgers:Online word processors arent as "handy" as one installed on your computer because if your internet goes away, so do your documents — so I will... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Oct 11, 2006 2:44 PM
Office 2.0's monopoly networks: I think the economics mean that people will prefer to access Office 2.0 using low-cost, unreliable broadband and cover the lapses with smart client technology. [Read the rest]; Posted by Phil Wainewright in Software as Services on: Oct 11, 2006 2:34 PM
Office 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and other numerological mysteries: Andrew McAfee, an associate professor at the Harvard Business School, is studying the effects of wikis, blogs, tag and predictive markets (which he calls Enterprise 2.0) on enterprises. He outlined... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Oct 11, 2006 11:05 AM
Google Docs to go 'offline' and more: As you probably know, I really like to dig through source code -- and sometimes I find things. Googles newly designed Writely (or "leftly" according to the source code) has... [Read the rest]; Posted by Garett Rogers in Googling Google on: Oct 11, 2006 8:21 AM
ZohoX: New Web Office Suite (post includes Image Gallery): Zoho will release a new version of its Zoho Virtual Office (aka ZohoX) at tomorrow’s Office 2.0 conference. Ive compiled an image gallery showing all the products that will make... [Read the rest]; Posted by Richard MacManus in Web 2.0 Explorer on: Oct 10, 2006 9:30 PM
Why Office 2.0 will never go wholly online: It's extremely naive to believe that the average user will be content to work solely with applications that only run online. Users will demand they run locally too, and disconnected. [Read the rest]; Posted by Phil Wainewright in Software as Services on: Oct 5, 2006 7:59 AM
Is Office 2007 the real Office 3.0?: Theres been a lot of hype in recent months about the future of the Office -- written in caps I imagine to distinguish it from Microsoft Office, which of course... [Read the rest]; Posted by Josh Greenbaum in Enterprise Anti-matter on: Oct 3, 2006 10:51 AM
Should Microsoft Works become a Web-based suite?: Regardless of what Microsoft will do with Works, what should the company do with its entry-level office suite? [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Sep 22, 2006 8:04 AM
Microsoft to put Works Suite onto Web: In the clearest sign yet that the big guns are preparing to step up the battle for Web Office, Microsoft has said it is considering releasing a version of Microsoft... [Read the rest]; Posted by Richard MacManus in Web 2.0 Explorer on: Sep 22, 2006 6:04 AM
Nick Carr breaks down the evolution of Office suites: Nick Carr weighs in on the definitional debates about Office 2.0, or the post Microsoft Office era that is emerging, and offers his view of the evolution of office software:Office... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Sep 14, 2006 4:57 PM
Google Office: a close-up look: In the accompanying Image Gallery, I've gone through 7 products that may become part of a future Google Web Office. Right now, Google doesn't have a full web-based office suite... [Read the rest]; Posted by Richard MacManus in Web 2.0 Explorer on: Sep 6, 2006 9:55 PM
Blogswarm on Google Apps for Your Domain: Last night's relatively big scoop, given to a few media outlets, was Google throwing together a bunch of its communications applications and making them available as a suite of services... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Aug 28, 2006 9:45 AM
Google Office 'version 1.0' debuts: Google doesn't yet have an Office 2.0--a full suite of hosted productivity applications aimed at the Microsoft Office crowd, especially the small- and medium-sized firms--but starting tomorrow companies or organizations... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Aug 27, 2006 8:15 PM
Under the Radar: Office 2.0: Last night I went to the Under the Radar event held at SAP Labs in Palo Alto on the topic of Office 2.0. Four companies--CollectiveX , EchoSign , Zoho and... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Aug 15, 2006 8:18 PM
Zimbra launches Zimbra Documents: Zimbra, the open source Web Office vendor, today announced the launch of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) 4.0. It includes the launch of Zimbra Documents, a WYSIWYG tool for creating,... [Read the rest]; Posted by Richard MacManus in Web 2.0 Explorer on: Aug 14, 2006 5:36 AM
How Salesforce has evolved (over 20 versions) to be a Web Office platform: This is Part 2 of my interview with Kendall Collins, VP of marketing at Salesforce.com. In Part 1, we spoke about version 20 of salesforce.com (called Summer 06) and discussed... [Read the rest]; Posted by Richard MacManus in Web 2.0 Explorer on: Aug 1, 2006 2:21 AM
Is JotSpot a Microsoft Office killer?: Nick Carr has an interesting post in Microsoft almost certainly will enter the Web Office suite market response to the new Web Office wiki released yesterday by JotSpot, covered here... [Read the rest]; Posted by Richard MacManus in Web 2.0 Explorer on: Jul 25, 2006 4:28 PM
JotSpot's nascent wiki-based office suite: JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus thinks that wikis are trapped in "nerdy clothing." He's launching the latest version of JotSpot Wiki 2.0--combining the wiki collaboration foundation with pre-defined page types that... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Jul 24, 2006 4:20 AM
Then and now: 5 years ago, Yahoo! was 'Web-office curious': While using Google this morning to hunt down a story that I once wrote about mysterious cybersquatting practices, I came across a news item circa 2001 with the headline Yahoo... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Jul 19, 2006 5:20 AM
Zoho releases Ajax presentation app - last piece of Web Office jigsaw?: Zoho has just released an online presentation/slideshow app (i.e. a web-based Powerpoint), which is an app I've been waiting for. In my Best of Breed Web Office Suite products post... [Read the rest]; Posted by Richard MacManus in Web 2.0 Explorer on: Jun 22, 2006 3:16 PM
Could Web-based PowerPoint-killers be the last straw for MS-Office?: By way of an entry on Bob Sutor's blog, I found CNET editor Rafe Needleman talking about the various entries in the marketplace that could eventually serve as Web-based replacements... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Jun 13, 2006 2:14 PM