Another announcement from Microsoft this week centered around their upcoming release of Microsoft Office 10 and an online version of Microsoft Office that will compete with Zoho and Google Docs.
The scheduled release of the new software and web apps is the 1st 1/2 of 2010. A lot can happen between now and then, but it will heat up the online apps arena. Microsoft also stated that their online apps will work with Safari and Firefox…which surprised me and I won”t believe it until I see it.
Read more at PC World:
Microsoft Surprises with Free Office Apps – Business Center – PC World.
Office 2010: Most Innovations are Online
Rick
After reading several of your comments about Firefox I took the plunge and downloaded version 3.5. It did load quickly- and it copied all of my favorites (however not in the order that I use them on IE) and I an assuming that all of my cookies also downloaded because I had no trouble going straight to several sites.
However I did NOT find it faster than IE (which was touted on the Firefox site) and the You-Tube videos that I watched seem to take just as much time to dowload as IE. I guess I am not as computer savy as I thought because I found no way to load Outlook Express or my address book information, and the Firefox help menu was extremely vague. The help menu sent me to another site and download another program called “Get Mail”
It was an experiment only because the MLS sytem “Paragon” is joined at the hip to IE-7 -I’m not even supposed to load IE-8 yet.
Mark
I think it is hard to detect on some sites Mark…especially with high speed Internet since most everything is fast. For things like audio and video, that won’t be faster since that it completely dependent on Internet speed to stream the content to us. And like your Paragon for real estate, many industries use some of the good features in IE to provide a rich working experience…unfortunately, those same technologies are what the bad guys exploit. My favorite feature of Firefox is the ability to customize it an make it work for me via the various Add-ons available….check them out by going to Tools –> Add-ons from the menus. Bottom line…use them both! And even try out Google Chrome.
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