Microsoft Office News & Articles

Chances are you are one of the 100 million users of Gmail. Chances are you store stuff on there because you can get to it no matter what machine you are accessing the web with. Novel chapters, presentation notes, report data, etc.

But you’re on a plane, or in a car, or doing the great search for the American Dream via Greyhound and you don’t have web access. Or the bandwidth you can access is unreliable. Spotty. Intermittent. Oh the humanity!

Microsoft, for nearly two decades, has been dominant with two products: Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. But Microsoft made a bold addition with the recent announcement of their new Office Web applications — Web-based versions of several desktop Microsoft Office applications — during the Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC). This news comes just as Microsoft announces its various cloud services that will unquestionably play a pivotal role in the company’s future.

Vamosa, which received accolades for its “cool” factor in the ECM sector (there’s a cool factor?), has decided to spread the love.

The content migration pros will be hosting free webinars for people seeking to learn more about analysis and migration tools for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The webinars start this month and last through the end of 2007. You’ll get online demonstrations of the Vamosa content and document store analysis and migration offerings, along with info on how to conduct successful migrations yourself.

Register for a webinar at the Vamosa website.

As the Google vs. Microsoft battle hits the road warrior, many are expecting the first major outbreak of the iPhone to be fired with Google Docs and Spreadsheets - which as of this week, works on Safari.

If you are looking for an alternative to Adobe Acrobat for PDF creation and manipulation, look no further. Nitro PDF Software follows up the March release of Nitro PDF Express with the release of a new version of Nitro PDF Professional.

You’ve heard the rumors. We reported on the speculation. Finally, Google has officially announced its paid application plan. For $50 per user per year, companies can outsource a significant portion, if not all, of their back end IT to the search behemoth.