From the BBC, full story. Microsoft has ramped up its battle with Google in wooing business customers with its next generation cloud-based product. While the software giant dominates the office space with a 94% market share it has been facing increased competition from Google. At a San Francisco event, Microsoft unveiled Office 365. The product [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Microsoft bets to win in the cloud and rival Google
Posted: 19th October 2010 by Paul in Google, MicrosoftTags: 365 Days, Bbc News, Business Customers, Corporate Server, Customer Office, Google, linkedin, Lync, Market Share, Microsoft Bets, Microsoft Office Sharepoint, Microsoft Sharepoint, News Site, Office Space, Own Software, Packaged Software, Pivot Point, Senior Vice President, Server Microsoft, Software Giant, Subscription Service
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10 million Google Apps for Education Users
Posted: 15th October 2010 by Paul in GoogleTags: 10 Million, Alien Technology, Asu, Education Post, Education Users, Football Game, Google, Google Apps, linkedin, Staff Faculty, Usc
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It was four years ago this month that Google Apps for Education first touched down, right before a pivotal football game between ASU and USC—fatefully enough, two schools that were among the first to move to Google Apps and pave the way for other schools to adopt this “alien technology.” This week at EDUCAUSE Google [...]
Google’s Chrome continues to increase market share
Posted: 12th October 2010 by Paul in GoogleTags: Firefox, Google, Impressive Rate, Internet Browser, Internet Explorer Browser, linkedin, Market Browser, Market Share, Microsoft, Microsoft Browser, Microsoft Explorer, Microsoft Ie, Microsoft Internet, Perc, September 11, Worldwide Market
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser falls below 50% of worldwide market for first time (GlobalStatsCounter, October 5) “Microsoft IE fell to 49.87% in September followed by Firefox with 31.5%. Google’s Chrome continues to increase market share at an impressive rate and has more than tripled from 3.69% in September 2009 to 11.54% in September this year. [...]
Google Apps rolled out to 3.1 million students
Posted: 7th October 2010 by Paul in Education, GoogleTags: Application Data, Certified Trainers, Cloud Model, Collaboration Applications, Collaboration Software, Collaboration Tools, Computing Environment, Education Edition, Gmail Google, Google, Google Apps, Internet Organizations, linkedin, Maintenance Upgrades, Management Personnel, Microsoft Office Suite, New York Institute Of Technology, Nyit, Public School Districts, S Education, School Of Education
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Taken from the article http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-Apps-Subs-for-Microsoft-Office-in-New-York-Schools-550253/ “Google is replacing Microsoft in a bid to provide collaboration software for more than 3.1 million students in New York state. The NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) has agreed to use the Google Apps for Education for all K-12 schools through the state, Stanley Silverman, director of Technology Based [...]