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An Online Alternative for Flowcharting

Many of us use Microsoft Visio for flow-charting and process mapping. MS Visio is widely used and has some very powerful and useful features. MS Visio however can be overwhelming for new users and is costly to use (a free alternative to MS Visio is OpenOffice Draw). For those who only flowchart occasionally or those [...]

Microsoft Office vs. Google Docs

In the newspaper this morning was an interesting article titled ‘Battle for Office reaches new heights‘. I like that the article mentioned the fundamental difference being that MS Office is installed locally on the Computer whereas Google Docs requires an Internet connection. Many people do not have constant Online access therefore need to be aware [...]

Free Microsoft Office coming 2010

Microsoft has announced that ‘lightweight Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote’ will be available free of charge through Windows Live in 2010. This is certainly excellent news for the 400 million odd Windows Live subscribers however should Microsoft (MSFT) shareholders be concerned? After all, Microsoft has had significant financial success over the [...]