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Google Docs & Spreadsheets
Reviewed on October 18, 2006
Google Docs & Spreadsheets beta gracefully merges word processing, spreadsheets and basic presentations within an online service that lets you collaborate with other users.
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Apple iWork '08
Reviewed on August 22, 2007
Although Microsoft Office 2007 offers deeper features, particularly for number crunchers, Apple iWork '08 is a strong Mac productivity package and a pleasure to use.
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Google Apps
Reviewed on August 28, 2006
Google Apps lets you brand online services with your own URL, but it doesn't eat the costs of domain registration as Microsoft Office Live does.
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Microsoft Student 2006
Reviewed on August 11, 2005
Student 2006 is an excellent homework helper for late-elementary, middle, and high-school kids. If you already use Microsoft Office, it's a good buy. If you don't, it's too expensive.
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Google Spreadsheets turns up heat on Excel
June 5, 2006
Web-based program puts search giant in even more competition with rival Microsoft. Images: Google's Excel challenge
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Rivals make run at Microsoft Office
September 18, 2007
Is the multibillion-dollar cash cow vulnerable at last to alternatives? Google, Yahoo and IBM seem to think so.
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Gates on Google: What, me worry?
September 14, 2005
Growing clout of Web-based development is much in evidence as Microsoft courts developers. But is Bill Gates losing sleep? Nah.
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Microsoft swipes at Google Apps
September 12, 2007
Redmond responds to Google's alliance with Capgemini by suggesting that Google Apps is not appropriate for many businesses.
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Year in review: Google's grand ambitions
December 23, 2008
Company tried extending its prowess to browsers, phones, display ads, and online applications in 2008. The economy and federal regulators, however, dampened some of its plans.
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Google buys Web word-processing technology
March 9, 2006
Showing it's interest in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Net, Google buys Upstartle, maker of Writely.
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Google combines word processing, spreadsheets
October 11, 2006
Beta of Google Docs & Spreadsheets launches; free product lets people collaborate online in real time.
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Google chase could trip up Microsoft
November 1, 2005
Analysts say Redmond's push into services is needed--but it risks rendering obsolete the company's ultra-profitable way of doing things.
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Google guns for Microsoft
June 6, 2006
Google Spreadsheets targets Office, but analysts say Microsoft probably shouldn't worry...until the consumers begin to influence the enterprise.
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Reader poll: Spreadsheets could erode Excel user base
June 7, 2006
Many Excel users might migrate to Google Spreadsheets, other options, according to an informal News.com poll.
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Office Live exits beta
November 15, 2006
Microsoft's Net-based software becomes generally available in U.S., while betas are released in U.K., France, Japan and Germany.
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Microsoft Office heads to the Web
October 1, 2007
Coming soon: Beta of Office Live Workspace, a free tool for viewing, sharing and storing--but not editing--Office documents online.Video: Office Live Workspace looks to narrow Google Apps gap
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Opening doors beyond Microsoft Office
September 20, 2007
Redmond's desktop software dominance faces an uprising of alternatives from the likes of IBM, Google and Yahoo.
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Gates: Microsoft ready to go 'live'
November 2, 2005
New services tied to Windows and Office are on the way in a "sea change" for the software leviathan. New competitors in Microsoft's crosshairs
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Google welcomes Writely sign-ups
August 21, 2006
Online word processor figures to be part of the search giant's counterweight to Microsoft's Office Live strategy.
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Google Gears churns toward Microsoft
May 31, 2007
New Google software brings Web-based applications offline, positioning the company in what some say is direct competition with Microsoft.
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