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| Time: 11:46 EST/16:46 GMT | News Source: InformationWeek | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim | ||
Microsoft(MSFT) is adding storage to Windows Live Hotmail and adding a number of additional enhancements to the online service in a competitive move against Google. The company said it will increase the amount of storage space available to Hotmail users from 2 Gbytes to 4 Gbytes for the free version and from 5 Gbytes to 10 Gbytes for the paid version. The move puts the basic version of Hotmail well ahead of Google's comparable product. Gmail features about 2.6 Gbytes of online storage, according to Google. Microsoft's enhancements to Hotmail, which the company said it will roll out "over the next few weeks," go beyond storage. <%=GetPoll(111)%> | ||
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| #1 By 54556 (67.131.75.3) at 8/2/2007 11:29:42 AM |
| In a corporate environment we often run mixed versions, as software may not be upgraded until it has been completely depreciated. Is Awin not interested in the experiences/opinions of us that manage corporate environments? |
| #2 By 37 (76.210.78.134) at 8/2/2007 12:49:52 PM |
| No, we are not. |
| #3 By 13030 (198.22.121.110) at 8/2/2007 4:17:05 PM |
| #1, When one has a certain zeal or interest, continual upgrades are completely and very easily justified. This is no different from a "perform a task approach" versus a "indulging in a hobby". The hobbyist will go out of their way to pursue their interest. Corporations typically fall under the "perform a task approach". |
| #4 By 54556 (67.131.75.3) at 8/2/2007 5:53:04 PM |
| #2, That's fine. We will them assume that you are also not interested in income from our mouse clicks. Goodbye. |
| #5 By 37 (68.190.114.234) at 8/2/2007 6:41:39 PM |
| #4 cya! |
| #6 By 82766 (219.88.70.141) at 8/2/2007 7:09:06 PM |
| #1 - although it may be true in your case, please do not give the impression that all businesses are the same. The business I work for does not use that model. Anyways, whats this got to do with a reviewof Publisher??? |
| #7 By 48398 (130.13.158.96) at 8/2/2007 11:35:03 PM |
| #4, Who clicks on any of the ads? |
| #8 By 37 (68.190.114.234) at 8/3/2007 6:22:58 AM |
| #6, he is speaking of the poll we posted. The way the poll was executed, it assumes people use a single version of office. |
| #9 By 16451 (68.35.10.96) at 8/3/2007 8:20:59 AM |
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#6 Gods of Darwinism please save us: your business" model" is to routinely replace fixed assets before they are depreciated?!?!?
#8 The poll also gives equal weighting to all voters, regardless of whether the user has a single PC or manages hundreds or thousands of them. |
| #10 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 8/3/2007 8:53:08 AM |
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Some of our clients have mixed 2003/2007 environments - as they roll 07 out to users.
There are considerations - formats, but that is easily managed via a policy [setting defaults to 97-2003 format in most cases], or education of users ref differences in formats. (Usually a combination of both). So his concerns are relevant, though not directly related to the poll. BTW, the driver behind moving to Office 2007 is not newness [you can imagine, business rarely spend a dime that does not benefit them] - it is productivity and users overwhelmingly like Office 2007's new ribbon interface and how it exposes relevant features and formatting options. They also like the ability to distill documents to .PDF. Working in and out of differing formats does have some potentially devastating consequences, too - take a document that originated in Office 2007, saved to 97-2003 format, edit it in Office 2003 and then 2007 again - adding objects, labels, etc... and see what happens... you'll be in one righteous mess and Office 2003 users [say a client's customer] won't see all the objects/labels, etc... We helped a legal services firm sort out just such a mess - ***we had offered and strongly recommended training that would have been free [free because I expected just such a mess to take place and resolving it is a lot more costly than training is]. They declined the offer and set out on their own and got bitten. Lesson is, as it reinforces what #6, said, their are pot holes and more universal deployments are actually more common - along with training around them. I do agree with #1, - any review has to include the perspective of working with different versions - after all, not all people outside an org will be using the same version as used internally and that is an issue that impacts all businesses - small, and large enterprises alike. |
| #11 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 8/3/2007 10:17:51 AM |
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I upgraded to Office 2007 as soon as it became available, in November 06, for several reasons:
The first one is that because I am not what could be called a "Power user" I did not foresee big problems with the "Ribbon", actually the opposite. The second one is that we are going to move to SBS 2008 (Cougar) and in order to take advantage of all the new features of Exchange 2007 you need Office 2007 Third reason was the fact we moved to Vista and there are some advantages using Vista and Office 2007 together. Overall I am satisfied with Office 07 although I have some concerns about how MS handled it: Outlook is one of the most used app in the suite and the fact that it shipped without the "Ribbon" because, as MS developers admitted, there was no time to implement it is an indicator of a new approach that deeply trouble me. Keep also in mind that OK is a key piece to MS success: my understanding is that there are no many alternatives to it on the market. Office is sloooow!! Again it could be that deadlines did not allow for a full optimization of it but... |
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