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Governments around the world are feeling the pinch of shrinking budgetary funds and burgeoning debt, but the UK is taking one important step in the right direction: open source software. With reports that the government will be abandoning Microsoft Office for all its government offices and departments and heading towards a deal with open source Collabora, this will be the latest in a line of clients who are realizing there are equally viable tools to be had without having to fork over exorbitant amounts of funds.
Earlier this week, news came out about Google’s attempts to win over Microsoft’s corporate clients with a sweet incentive–free access to Google for Work for the duration of their companies’ contracts for Office suite, along with as much as $75,000 to cover the training and implementation costs associated with the switch. Should these new customers opt to remain with Google for Work at the end of their free run, the costs are nearly half what the subscription fees for Office run.
According to an official statement on the Collabora switch, “UK Government buyers have signed a new commercial deal for Open Source office applications on desktop, mobile, and cloud. The ‘Cloud Transition Agreement’ between the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), an executive arm of the Cabinet Office, and British Open Source software firm Collabora Productivity, states the Government’s commitment to Open Source and Open Document Format, and offers major cost savings for public sector bodies.”
Collabora GovOffice functions very much like the much-loved LibreOffice suite, and it’s compatible with Google Docs and Microsoft Office. It also comes at a price tag that neither Google nor Microsoft have anted up. But the price tag isn’t the only reason for large-scale entities to make the switch: proprietary software is only as good as the company running it, and when that company runs into trouble, so do the customers who rely on their product to function. When you take into account the fact that the government is that customer, there can be no errors, at least not when the client is paying as much as it is for the privilege.
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In the month that Yahoo Mail turns 18, users of Yahoo Mail can now check their email using nothing more than their user name and a smartphone. The new password free login allows users to verify any device they want to check their email on, by authenticating login details using their main smartphone.
Yahoo’s senior vice president of product management, Dylan Casey, said this in the blog post announcing Account Key: “Account Key streamlines the sign-in process with a secure, elegant and easy-to-use interface that makes access as easy as tapping a button,”
Yahoo have made the move in an effort to improve security and help eliminate one of the big hassles that internet users face every day. The Account Key feature, comes as part of the biggest shakeup to happen to Yahoo Mail in years. Unveiling a raft of new features in the blog post, the company said Yahoo Mail’s redesign “will take user convenience and security to the next level.”
Time will tell if Account Key will actually solve the problems with passwords, including the fact that people have a tendency to use the same password to logon to several different systems and devices. Yahoo’s Casey said that “Passwords are usually simple to hack and easy to forget….Account Key uses push notifications to provide a fast and secure way for you to access your Yahoo accounts from your smartphone. It frees you from memorizing complicated passwords, making signing-in to your Yahoo Mail app easy as tapping a button.”
The unveiling of Account Key is the latest new feature to be rolled out by Yahoo this year. While it is not currently certain, it appears that Account Key will replace Yahoo‘s On Demand SMS password system released in March. The SMS service allowed users to log into their Yahoo accounts using one time passwords.
Yahoo’s new look apps and increased security features is part of the larger plan to try and regain some of the ground it has lost to Google over the last five years or so.
In August 2013, both Google and Yahoo both had about 96 million U.S. email users each. In the two years that have followed, Google grew its user base by another 40% to over 135 million users, while Yahoo’s base dropped by over a quarter in the same time period.
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