Yesterday, we told you that a judge recommended New York City reinstate an employee that it had fired for surfing the web during office hours.
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The company launched Internet services for e-mail, Web browsing, office productivity and photo-sharing.
And Microsoft has updated its Office Web Apps, stripped-down programs that offer free editing, via a Web browser, of files stored online.
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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.
It provides for secure and virtually anywhere access to email, calendars, Office Web Apps, instant messaging, conferencing and file sharing, allowing employees to work on the go, on nearly any device.
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Office 365 offers Office Web Apps plus access to hosted versions of Outlook e-mail, Sharepoint collaboration, and Lync instant messaging (formerly Office Communicator), as well as the ability to download the full version of Office 2010 Professional Plus.
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Consumers can access Office web apps via SkyDrive for free although there is a 25 GB storage limit and 50 MB file size limit for Word, PowerPoint and OneNote files and a 2 MB file size limit for Excel.
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Microsoft already offers Web based versions of Office that can be accessed from most major browsers.
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What do you say we bust it up into three separate companies: Windows, Office and Web Ventures?
The Web site features freestanding office furniture designed specifically for this market.
In the UK and Germany, however, employees at big companies are slightly more likely to browse the social web while at the office.
From her glass-walled office at Web retailer One Kings Lane, co-founder Alison Pincus has been working her contacts for San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum, which recruited her for its board last year.
But the United States is "prepared to offer assistance to governments to mitigate the consequences of any satellite debris impacts on their territory, " according to a report of Rocca's remarks on the Web site of the Geneva office of the U.N.
On the one hand, he noted that Microsoft has a long history of providing cross-platform applications. (You can run Office on the Mac, for instance.) And he also noted that you can run the limited function Web-based version of Office in a browser on basically any device at all, including iPads and iPhones, to read documents and do some light editing.
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Running your office finances through the web makes payments prompt and much easier to track.
Web retailers were criticised by the Office of Fair Trading last month for ignoring customers' rights.
Microsoft recently launched Office 365, a web-based productivity software product, to mark an entry into the fast-growing cloud-computing space.
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Although Microsoft has no immediate plans to offer its Office programs over the web, it has already staked claims in the applications-services business.
"We are betting big on the cloud with our most successful product, and we are investing heavily both in the product engineering side and the physical infrastructure side, " Tim O'Brien, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy, said last year when the company first unveiled a Web-based version of its Office software.
The Attorney General's Office has set up a web site to collect consumer complaints about the company at www.nyagdell.com.
To avoid an annoying legal tussle, Anheuser-Busch coaxed the Budweiser Web address from Fisher by filling his office with beer.
He and others are also running their businesses on Google Apps, a competitor to Microsoft Office that runs over the Web.
This, in turn, calls for a web version of its best-selling Office 2000 program to run only on computers using Windows 2000.
For a little more he built an Asterisk system of motion detectors and Web cameras that send video to his office laptop and can call any phone when something happens at his house.
Microsoft has already had to make concessions on price to fend off competition from Google, offering consumers a stripped down, ad supported version of Office for free via the web.
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He and others are also running their businesses on Google Apps, a competitor to Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Office that runs over the Web.
But in a sign of how technology already has transformed the fundamental dynamics of the party, each of the six candidates appears to be campaigning as if the job were a popularly elected office -- unveiling sleek Web sites, circulating e-mail pitches to supporters and holding conference calls with members of the media and conservative bloggers.
As work shifts to the Web, your files move out of your office and onto Google 's servers--and so does the control over those valuable materials.
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