Office 2.0 News & Articles

Have you noticed any changes to your Google interface lately? The Internet giant has been slowly rolling out a new look that will continue over the course of the summer. The revamp aims to make the UI across Google more focused, elastic and effortless. These are all good things, but if change gives you anxiety you are free to preview it before it fully arrives. 

Kwaga's (news, site) newest feature for Gmail identifies changes in the signatures of incoming emails and automatically updates a user's Gmail address book.

In business, you are only as strong as the network that supports you. To this end, Zoho recently updated us on the recent changes and growth in their Zoho Alliance Partner Program (or ZAPP). Since its inception a year and a half ago, the program has seen: new additions to the reseller program, added capability to the Zoho API and new strategic partner deals.

The growth surrounding the Zoho Alliance Partner Program will help strengthen Zoho's business and take the Zoho product line to the hosted SMB services market they are trying to corner. How has ZAPP changed through this rapid program growth?

Today sees the release of EditGrid Excel Plus in private beta. This new spreadsheet plug-in boasts several interesting features, but the one which will attract the most attention is a real-time spreadsheet-linking technology for which rival offerings, like those from Google and Microsoft, have no equivalent.

Joining Zimbra, Zoho and a web based office suite from a little ole Google; ShareMethods is the latest player in the effort to move the office suite from the desktop to the web.

The Zoho Office team has been consistently adding integrated products to its stellar AJAX Web Office Suite, and picking up some much deserved respect along the way. The latest this week is the Zoho Wiki.

It seems that hardly a day goes by without Google making some sort of progress in its Apps. The latest notable update is with the Toolbar version 3 (in beta). Beyond helpful browsing knickknacks, the toolbar now loads Microsoft Office documents directly into Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets application.

Big deal you say? Its not so much the “what” as it is the “how” that’s got our attention.