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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Microsoft‘s foray into ad revenue based software seems to have been throttled back somewhat. Earlier this week, I wrote about Microsoft’s first notable attempt to offer up productivity software for ‘free’. Download Squad is reporting that the ad supported Works will be offered through a select number of OEM partners,…
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With all the free office clones floating about, including Google’s Docs&Spreadsheets, you knew it was just a matter of time that Microsoft would have to offer something to counter. Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley is blogging about such a move. Apparently, the new Microsoft Works will run on an advertising supported model, and will be…
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Despite all the recent punditry and pronouncements of Palm’s impending sale, the company continues to chug along on the smartphone front, while preparing to unveil a new product line. Could this new product be like the ‘Firefox Computer’ that I wrote about earlier this year? Will it compete with the Nokia N800 that I wasn’t…
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My pals over at Download Squad wrote about this yesterday: Microsoft is offering Office Accounting Epxress 2007 for free. It’s the first time I can recall Microsoft offering a business focused application for free. I’ve been beta testing the new Accounting 2007 for the last 2-3 months, and it seems to have a nice flow…
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Google announced this morning that it had purchased JotSpot, one of the more creative wiki application companies out there. One of the huge benefits of this is that Jot’s capabilities will now have a large infrastructure and essentially be free to use. Hopefully Google won’t wait too long to integrate JotSpot into its other offerings,…
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After the lackluster launch of the UMPC (Origami), a failure that had as much to do with the bulky form-factor as price, Microsoft is keying up another personal device for consumers. Dubbed the Zune, most people have written it off already as an ‘also ran’ against Apple’s iPod. Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research, however, seems…
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Chris Pratley, now the Group Manager for Office Authoring Services (which includes OneNote, Word, and Publisher) has posted an excellent entry on his blog on how OneNote notebooks can be synchronized across multiple computers. OneNote, for those of you who haven’t seen it before, is Microsoft’s omnipresent data capture tool. Simply put, OneNote is a…
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