Now this is interesting. Comments from Google’s president of the enterprise division indicate he believes that Google Docs will “reach a ‘point of capability’ next year that it will serve the ‘vast majority’s needs.’”
He acknowledged that Docs is currently “much less mature” than Google Mail or Calendar. “We know it. We wouldn’t ask people to [...]
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Google Docs to surpass Office in a year
November 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Category: Uncategorized
Tags: cloud, Docs, Google, Microsoft, office, productivity, software
Preview Microsoft Office 2007 in the browser
November 7th, 2007 · No Comments
As long as your browser is Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, you can take the latest edition of Microsoft Office for a test drive without having to install a thing. Experience the bliss of the ribbon, the new UI metaphor that has already won my heart over. I loathe still having to do [...]
Category: Technology
Tags: Excel, Microsoft, Office 2007, Outlook, productivity, software, Word
Accounting gets a shot of adrenaline
September 5th, 2007 · 8 Comments
Bill Kennedy’s getting it done at Energized Accounting, a relatively new blog hosted by Google’s Blogger that so far has been host to some inspirational posts for me. The latest is all about a favourite topic of mine, data visualization:
If you want effective communications, you have to take responsibility for both the sending and [...]
Category: Accounting Blogs
Tags: accountant, blogger, CA, Dynamics, Microsoft, Toronto
Microsoft plunges into social networks with accounting and finance site
March 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments
This is probably the type of thing I should be blogging about. The phrase “right in my wheelhouse” comes to mind. The intersection of several of my favourite things: accounting, technology, and social networks.
Microsoft has announced a new “community” around Dynamics Live specifically for accounting and finance professionals. The site isn’t [...]
Category: Web
Tags: community, Dynamics, forum, LinkedIn, Microsoft, professional
IT departments are not leading innovation in firms
February 11th, 2007 · 3 Comments
An article in The Economist’s December 23, 2006 holiday double issue caught my attention. It reported on how Arizona State University was converting their email system over to use Google’s free hosted service, under the “Google Apps for your Domain” offering that I blogged about back in August last year. I’m still using [...]
Category: Technology
Tags: accounting firm, collaboration, Gmail, Google, IM, IT, Microsoft, SaaS, The Economist

