Because of this, we are seeing a major disruption in the field of office productivity software.
Former employees of Microsoft have backed startups in everything from office productivity to biotech.
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Over the past 10-15 years, we saw what could be considered a monopoly around office productivity software.
Understand how dependent critical business applications and processes are on particular office productivity application vs. a particular file format.
The company launched Internet services for e-mail, Web browsing, office productivity and photo-sharing.
Chief among them is Microsoft Office, the ubiquitous office productivity software that predominates on both the Windows and Mac platforms.
Microsoft would kill Google if it stopped calling itself a software company and started behaving like a true office productivity company.
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There are security products from Carbonite and McAfee, a couple of office productivity products and offerings for collaboration, accounting and customer management.
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The Latitude 10 is available with an optional productivity dock for in-office productivity with a traditional keyboard and mouse for desktop content creation activities.
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We also moved our critical applications (office productivity) away from Microsoft to OpenOffice, the free software developed by Sun and thankfully still supported by Oracle.
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Unlike the slow growth in the Windows segment, the Office productivity suite maintained its growth during the previous quarter, posting a 7% gain in revenues year-over-year.
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Microsoft Corporation , one of the biggest software companies in the world, makes money primarily via sales of its Microsoft Office productivity suite and Windows operating system.
The traditional fix for Microsoft, of course, has been to use its ubiquity on the desktop to open up other markets, from Web browsers to office productivity software.
Microsoft has identified this sort of software as a key threat to its business, which relies on the healthy margins it earns from Windows and its Office productivity suite.
This means enterprise users now have a three-way choice for office productivity: remote delivery of desktop applications, browser-based cloud solutions like Google Docs or the native, Microsoft-compatible LibreOffice suite that comes pre-installed.
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The complete suite of solutions addresses home and business communications, security and surveillance systems, retail information systems, office productivity solutions, and high definition visual conferencing, keeping Panasonic customers connected, informed, accessible and secure.
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Overall, I found OnLive Desktop to be a notable technical achievement, but it has so many caveats that it's best for folks who absolutely, positively need to use the full, genuine versions of the three big Office productivity programs on their iPads.
Moreover, while Microsoft's Vista operating system has received mediocre reviews, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant offers a host of tools, from e-mail software to its ubiquitous Office productivity suite, that will make it impossible to break Windows' lock on big businesses anytime soon.
Freshly launched editions of Microsoft's mainstays--the Windows operating system and Office desktop productivity suite--helped the Redmond, Wash.
But for most of Mr Howard's nine years in office, productivity-boosting reform has been on the back burner.
The MS Office suite entails productivity software applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access.
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Yet other than the firm's Office suite of productivity tools, none of these was shown at this week's launch.
Raikes built the business by tying new products such as Microsoft SharePoint to hits, such as Microsoft's Office suite of productivity applications, says Rob Helm, director of research at Directions on Microsoft.
This marks the expansion of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) portfolio already available from Sprint which includes support, office and field-productivity services.
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We have yet to adopt iWork around the office, but if you've been able to integrate Apple's office suite with your productivity workflow, then you'll likely find remote sync and file access to be incredibly useful.
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It can be extremely difficult to get things done and maintain a high level of productivity when people (especially decision makers) are out of the office, says Marian Morgan, a productivity coach.
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Worried about the effects proliferating office-based relationships have on productivity, more UK corporations are introducing "love contracts" to deter them.
The importance of this foundational aspect of Microsoft's business plan was highlighted this week with the announcement of a new version of Office, the company's productivity suite that is a bedrock of both revenue and profit.
The Ribbon and other new aspects of the Office interface provide an opportunity for increased end-user productivity, but also represent significant changes in the look and feel of the core Office applications.
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