ThinkFree Office Clone Seeks Opportunity From Dissatisfied Microsoft Office Users
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TechWeb - ThinkFree, which is reportedly an acquisition target for Google, is banking that Microsoft Office users will be dissatisfied with the new version, and will turn to ThinkFree's online clone of previous Office versions instead.
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Forget about finding the next Microsoft. You'll do better by looking at what others don't want.
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People apparently are already tuning in to IBM Corp.&#39;s Symphony. The company reported Wednesday that its free rival to Microsoft Corp.&#39;s Office suite was downloaded 100,000 times in the first week of release.
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Busting through SP3 Microsoft has threatened to release a fix for an Office 2003 update that may well have the productivity suite work as intended once again.â¦
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Early user reviews of IBM&#39;s new Lotus Symphony office software suite are unlikely to be music to IBM&#39;s ears.
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More on the 3D, tabletop UI Letters My recent article 'Why Microsoft innovation is only Surface deep' prompted a number of Reg readers to pick up their keyboards in anger. I had anticipated knee-jerk claims of gratuitous "MS bashing", but these aside, the feedback has mostly been supportive.â¦
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Higgins-project developers are creating a tool equivalent to Windows CardSpace but need Microsoft's go-ahead for certain features.
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In the workplace, Microsoft Office is as inevitable as drawn-out meetings and bad coffee. But Microsoft's combination of Word, Excel and PowerPoint is not the only way to write, crunch numbers or prepare slideshows. And for home users, it isn't even the best way anymore.
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For years, people who use Microsoft Office have been asking for less.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.
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A Microsoft UK replacement scheme for pirate copies of Windows XP suggests the company is testing the waters to see how feasible it is to convert sections of its unlicensed user base to legitimate users.
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New product for Office is aimed at getting more people within each business to use Redmond's software.
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Even as such open source software developers as Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) and OpenOffice.org wax enthusiastic concerning enterprise deployments of their respective Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Office alternatives, industry analysts are urging caution.
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In a sign of the growing movement for alternatives to the industry-dominating Microsoft Office suite, IBM said Wednesday that more than 100,000 registered users downloaded the beta of its free office productivity software, Lotus Symphony, in its first week.
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Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it may  offer a free, advertising-supported version of its basic word  processing and spreadsheet software, in an apparent bid to fend  off a nascent challenge from Google Inc. in the business  software market.
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Just a week after IBM joined OpenOffice.org, the company released a version of the open-source groups desktop applications in an attempt to steal some users away from Microsoft Office.
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With two new office suites going free, can Microsoft maintain its high price tag on Office?  Don thinks it can -- and will.