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It Stood on The Cutting Edge of Web-hosted Email and Collaboration Suites for Businesses
Nov 5, 2013When Google Apps arrived in 2006, it stood on the cutting edge of Web-hosted email and collaboration suites for businesses, a bold pioneer clearing a path in the new, wild frontier of enterprise cloud computing. Seven years later, ...
Tags: Google Apps, Cloud App
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Australia's Government May Mandate That Its Agencies Use Software Compatible with ODF
May 29, 2013Australia's government may mandate that its agencies use software compatible with OpenDocument Format (ODF), an international file standard. The country's government agencies mostly use Microsoft's Office software, but support for an open ...
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ASF Has Approved CloudStack as a Top-Level Project TLP
Mar 25, 2013The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has approved CloudStack as a top-level project (TLP), helping the open-source cloud software effort further establish its independence from Citrix, which acquired the program's codebase in its 2011 ...
Tags: Apache, Free Cloudstack, Citrix Fetters
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Open-Xchange Plans to Launch an Open-Source, Browser-Based Productivity Suite
Mar 20, 2013Collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange plans to launch an open-source, browser-based productivity suite called OX Documents. The first application for the suite is OX Text, an in-browser word processing tool with editing capabilities ...
Tags: Computer Products, OX Documents, software
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Microsoft Has Caved in to Public Pressure
Mar 7, 2013Software giant Microsoft has caved in to public pressure and will now allow buyers of Office 2013 to transfer their software licence to other PCs. The decision follows uproar over the draconian ratcheting up of software licensing terms by ...
Tags: Microsoft, Office 2013, PC
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Google Has Dropped Support for The Export of Spreadsheets, Documents
Dec 28, 2012From 1 October, according to a notice placed on the company's website, users of all editions of Google Apps – including Business, Education, and Government – will be unable to download documents, spreadsheets, and presentations ...
Tags: Google, .doc, Microsoft Office, support
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Germany Has Voted in Favor of Ditching The Open Source Suite OpenOffice
Nov 20, 2012A majority of the city council in Freiburg,Germany,has voted in favor of ditching the open source suite OpenOffice to return to Microsoft Office after severe problems and complaints from employees. The council voted 25 in favor and 20 ...
Tags: Germany, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, council
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Google Has Dropped Support for The Export of Spreadsheets
Sep 27, 2012Google has dropped support for the export of spreadsheets, documents and other files in old-style Microsoft Office formats. From 1 October, according to a notice placed on the company's website, users of all editions of Google Apps ...
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