How Microsoft is Battling Back Against Google Docs

After Google’s own development and the acquisition of Writely, Google Docs appeared in 2006 and has had a solid hold of the online document world since around 2009. Although seriously lacking the robust features of Microsoft’s Office suite, it was clear that Google would continue to develop their own suite to be a real competitor in the creation and sharing of documents online.

In 2010, Microsoft made its biggest jab at the search giant’s platform with their own online suite, Office Web Apps.  Web Apps provided a feature-lite version of their popular document software, and the service was free for users with a Microsoft Live account (which is also free).

Microsoft’s version of online document editors maintained the selling points of traditional Office; robust features, lots of format compatibility, and the most accurate online conversion of Office documents.  Google however still led the chase with real time co-authoring and a simple and sleek look. Their jump start in the arena also netted them four million businesses already using their document solution.

As late as September of this year, both sides continue the battle.  Microsoft released a large update that fixed many performance issues and added a handful of new features.  Google continues to offer updates with much of the same.  And as each update is rolled out each side makes statements to computer blogs and magazines pointing out the weaknesses of the competing product.

Statements from both sides show that they are keenly aware of the deficiencies of the other.  From this, we can also assume that both are aware of their own faults and are feverishly working to make their platform stronger.

Who will win this online battle?  Will Google continue to dominate the online world and slowly grab users from traditional offline software or will Microsoft’s Web Apps add real-time sharing quicker than Google thinks to establish it as the better option.  Time will tell.

Frank Anderson is a technology writer who gained his expertise with the virtual web hosting and cloud computing company WebHosting.net.

 

4U Download YouTube Videos 4.9.2 + serial

 

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Digital Clock in HTML by Wasim Akhtar

This javascript program display Current Time as Digital Clock

 

Program:

 

<html>

                <head>

                <script type="text/javascript">

                var str="";

                var cd;

                var hr;

                var min;

                var sec;

                var ct="";

                var ap="";

                var cout=0;

                var col="";

                var addcol=100;

                var col1=0;

                var col2=10;

                var col3=20;

                                function displayTime()

                                {

                                                cd=new Date();

                                                hr=cd.getHours();

                                                hr=checkHours(hr);

                                                hr=checkTimes(hr);

                                                min=cd.getMinutes();

                                                min=checkTimes(min);

                                                sec=cd.getSeconds();

                                                sec=checkTimes(sec);

                                                digitalClock();

                                                generateColor();

                                                str="<center><font size=22 color=#"+col+" >"+hr+ct+min+ct+sec+" "+ap+"</font></center>";

                                                document.getElementById("ct").innerHTML=str;

                                                setTimeout("displayTime()",500);

                                }

                                function checkTimes(num)

                                {

                                                if(num<10)

                                                                                num="0"+num;

                                                return num;

                                }

                                function checkHours(nu)

                                {

                                                if(nu>12)

                                                {

                                                                nu=nu-12;

                                                                ap="PM";

                                                }

                                                else

                                                                ap="AM";

                                                return nu;

                                }

                                function digitalClock()

                                {

                                                if(cout==0)

                                                {

                                                                ct=":";

                                                                cout=1;

                                                }

                                                else

                                                                if(cout==1)

                                                                {

                                                                                ct="&nbsp\;";

                                                                                cout=0;

                                                                }

                                }

                                function generateColor()

                                {

                                                col=""+col1+col2+col3;

                                                col1=checkColor(col1);

                                                col1=col1+10;

                                                col2=checkColor(col2);

                                                col2=col2+05;

                                                col3=checkColor(col3);

                                                col3=col2+13;

                                }

                                function checkColor(nm)

                                {

                                                return nm;

                                }

                               

                               

                </script>

                </head>

                <body onload="displayTime()">

                <p id="ct"></p>

                </body>

</html>

Yahoo! Widget Engine 4.5.2

Yahoo! Widgets help you save time and stay current by bringing an always-updated, at-a-glance view of your favorite Internet services right to your desktop. The Yahoo! Widget Gallery offers over 4,000 desktop Widgets - the most available anywhere online. Yahoo! Widgets is the only major desktop Widgets platform that works on both Windows and Mac OS.

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Choose from more than 4,000 Widgets. Make it all yours

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Google Chrome 15.0.849.0 Beta

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

One box for everything

Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites

Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Incognito mode

Don't want pages you visit to show up in your web history? Choose incognito mode for private browsing.

Safe browsing

Google Chrome warns you if you're about to visit a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website.

For information about alpha and developer builds, check out the Chrome dev channel here.

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Best programming editor rating by me Notepad++ 5.9.3

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL Licence.

Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• WYSIWYG
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Multi-View
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag 'N' Drop supported
• Dynamic position of Views
• File Status Auto-detection
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Bookmark
• Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
• Macro recording and playback

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Transform Windows 7 into Ubuntu

Transform Windows 7 into Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Using "Ubuntu Skin Pack 6.0″

UPDATE: New version 6.0 released which comes with new boot screen, icons, start button, dock, etc. If you use Windows but love simple, minimal and clean look of Ubuntu, here is something interesting for you. "Ubuntu Skin Pack" is a customization pack for Windows 7 users which can make our Windows look-like Ubuntu 11.04.