Office 2.0: GoogleDocs in the works
Mary Jo Foley posts on Steve Bryant's report that tomorrow at the Office 2.0 conference, Google will unveil its GoogleDocs project, which merges Writely and Google Spreadsheets into a unified collaboration suite.
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Gartner: Think holistically (architecturally speaking) about mobile
Here, at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Gartner analysts for the first time are coming out and saying that it's time for enterprises to decide on a strategic architecture to support mobile handset computing, and to begin deployments.
Voting electronically? Be very afraid!
This November's election marks the first widespread use of electronic voting in the US. There is considerable concern among computer security professionals and others that electronic voting is not secure and evidence keeps mounting that the current crop of machines are not secure as they could be.
General Colin Powell entertains the Dreamforce troops
Former Secretary of State, General Colin Powell delivered a keynote address at salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference this morning.
Ballmer on Microsoft's persistence: The bone doesn't fall out of our mouth easily
Before a standing room-only audience of more than 6,000 attendees here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Steve Ballmer was put on the hot seat (if you can call it that) as two of Gartner's analysts David Smith and Yvonne Genovese grilled him with a variety of questions regarding Microsoft's strategy moving forward.
Apex signals a shift in the software landscape
The software landscape is changing. PeopleSoft founder Dave Duffield is heading up Workday, which is a pure on demand, Web services enterprise software play, following salesforce.
Ballmer: Software should be click to run
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is on stage now at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo talking about blurring the lines between software that's delivered locally, or via the Internet. Below is a photo.
ZDNet reader makes good point about WGA and security distractions in Windows
In my last post about Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy software, I picked up (third-hand) on a hypothetical mission critical scenario where, for whatever reasons, surgeons who rely on Windows in the operating room could end up having WGA interfere with the task at hand. When I say, whatever reasons, we're hearing that hardware changes are triggering more "You could be a pirate" dialogs than they should be.
Podcast: Gartner attendees contemplate outsourcing, desktop Linux, Web apps and more
Ever since I started covering Gartner Symposium/ITxpo (years back), I've been going to the keynotes and the sessions, returning to the press room, and hammering out write-ups of what I heard. No doubt, I'll be doing that today if Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer drops any bombshells during his keynote "Mastermind" session.
Inside the Salesforce Apex language
Salesforce.com's Apex programming language has been hailed by some as a significant milestone in short history of Web on demand applications.