Office News & Articles

With Thanksgiving fast approaching it seems as if some companies are already kicking back. That said, there are a couple of noteworthy announcements this week from Google, who has just announced Office integration, Confidela, which aims to make your documents safe on mobile devices and CAPSYS, who released new document capture capabilities for Laserfiche. In other news, Nuxeo World had some interesting sessions, especially on DM deployments.

While Microsoft's (news, site) other divisions harvest in the cash, Online Services proves to be the company's weak spot, leaking another half-a-billion dollars.

Microsoft has just released its Q1 figures, showing that not only was the launch of Office 2010 a major commercial success for the company, but also, that Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system in history.

There have been a number of new releases this week, not least of which is the release of Office 2011 for Mac operating systems. SpringCM has also been busy simplifying multiple deployments of its document management capabilities, Microsoft and Google are still slugging it out over the email market and Doculex has added workflow to its capabilities.

Microsoft (news, site) has announced the beta version of its web-based Office services, including SharePoint, Exchange and Lync (formerly Communications Server), as well as a subscription version of Office that it hopes will bolster Office Web Apps.

The slow drip feed of information about the release of Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011 ERP has started with Microsoft (news, site) announcing that it will be released in English in the US and Canada in the second quarter of next year.

Zoho (news, site) keeps making friends with both users and rivals as it integrates Google Apps into its ever-increasing feature list.

Zoho's (news, site) Raju Vegesna took time to guide us through the latest features of the company's cloud-based CRM suite.

With the recent announcement that Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, generally known as CRM5, has gone into public beta, it might be finally possible to say whether it will provide a robust response to Salesforce.com’s (news, site) hold on the CRM market.

Back in the full swing of things this week with Hyland Software outlining its plans to take OnBase worldwide and Office 2011 for Mac finally going to RTM. Xerox has also launched its rebranding campaign, while PSIGEN extends the reach of its document capture software.

It may be summer and the middle of what newspapers call the silly season, but there is still a constant trickle of new document management releases. Amongst this week’s highlights are more details on the Mac Office release in October, while Doculex announces the availability of new document management services. Laserfiche and SharePoint also got officially DoD certified.

While much was made about the release of Office 2010 in May, the announcement that Microsoft intends to make an Office release for Mac in October has been relatively quiet. Also this week there has been a number of releases that aim to make PDF conversion much easier.

When Brad Wilson, GM for Microsoft Dynamics said the upcoming release of Dynamics CRM 2011 will raise the bar in the CRM market, he could be accused of being a tad presumptuous. However, the new release due for public beta in September looks set to challenge Salesforce.com's (news, site) dominance in this space.

This week, Microsoft has been receiving a lot of attention with the general release of Docs.com for Facebook, a new capture tool for SharePoint from Kofax and a better Office 2010 mobile experience from Aia. Xerox encourages ‘green’ printing with free software.

Recently, the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), an organization based in the UK that represents digital publishing companies that create original, branded, quality content, announced the recipients of its Digital Publishing Awards for 2010.