Google Broadening Wave Access With GMail-Like Rollout

Sep 29, 2009 at 11:00am ET by Greg Sterling

As we previously reported, starting tomorrow Google will widen access to its innovative communications platform Wave, offering 100,000 new invitations to use the service. Many of these people in turn will be allowed to invite others to join as well, reminiscent of how GMail propagated. (It's wise for Google to allow these new users to invite friends and family because you effectively can't use Wave without contacts on the system.) Those who will gain full access tomorrow will apparently be developers, early users who provided feedback and some Google Apps customers. My earlier blog post pro [...]

Filed in: Google: Gears, Google: General, Google: Gmail, Google: iGoogle

Google Office Gains New Enterprise Credibility

Sep 10, 2007 at 10:38am ET by Greg Sterling

Capgemini Backs Google's Software Push from the Associated Press covers how Paris-based tech and business consultancy CapGemini is going to start recommending and installing Google Apps on enterprise desktops, a move viewed as a big boost for Google's "office" application aspirations. CapGemini also works with Microsoft and IBM and "influences the type of software used on more than 1 million personal computers in companies worldwide" according to the article. The Google Apps Premier Edition suite costs $50 per user account per year and includes phone support, additional storage and other se [...]

Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: Docs & Spreadsheets, Google: Gears

Microsoft Bundling Software, Apps In New “Windows Live Services”

Sep 6, 2007 at 10:28am ET by Greg Sterling

Microsoft has rolled out something similar to the Google Pack software bundle called "Windows Live Services." Google Operating System has a lengthy (favorable) overview. The package includes mail and instant messaging, search toolbar, online storage, photosharing and blogging software, all from Microsoft. It operates as something of an extension of Windows desktop software and is intended to create a kind of self-contained world of online applications. It's also intended to boost awareness and usage of Windows Live search, as well as counter the growing Google Apps/Gears and "cloud computing" [...]

Filed in: Google: Docs & Spreadsheets, Google: Gears, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: General

Microsoft And Google Moving More Deeply Into Each Others’ Businesses

Jul 27, 2007 at 11:05am ET by Greg Sterling

Microsoft vows it won't let its core businesses be undermined by "the cloud." This article from the NY Times (and related discussion at Techmeme) quotes Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saying that Microsoft will compete aggressively with Google and other online alternatives to Office and will offer Web-based versions of all its core software: “We’re not moving toward a world of thin computing,” said Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, referring to systems in which simple processing takes place on a PC, but more complex processing is moved to a centralized computer through a ne [...]

Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: Docs & Spreadsheets, Google: Gears, Microsoft: Business Issues

What To Make Of Google Gears

Jun 1, 2007 at 8:34am ET by Greg Sterling

Being a non-developer I was a bit of a fish out of water at Google Developer Day yesterday. The event, which took place in the 10 countries where Google has offices, was intended to showcase Google Gears and the company's various APIs. I attended the event in California, which was moved from Google's Mountain View headquarters to the San Jose Convention Center to accommodate demand and attendance. The Gears initiative is about creating an open standard to help turn the Web browser into a better, richer development platform and enabling applications to work "offline," when there's an inconsis [...]

Filed in: Google: APIs, Google: Apps For Your Domain, Google: Desktop, Google: Docs & Spreadsheets, Google: Gears

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