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Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/cloudconnect
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office brings collaborative multi-person editing to the familiar Microsoft® Office experience.
You can share, backup, and simultaneously edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel® documents with coworkers.

Microsoft Office Forums
http://www.techhelpcentre.com/forumdisplay.php?f=227
Tech Help Centre's Microsoft Office Support Forums.

Microsoft Office 365
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/online-software.aspx
Microsoft Office 365 for professionals and small businesses is a subscription service that combines the familiar Microsoft Office Web Apps with a set of web-enabled tools that are easy to learn and use, that work with your existing hardware, and that come backed by the robust security, reliability, and control you need to run your business.
Office 365 gives you access to email, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at any time, on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices—while it helps to protect against viruses and spam.

OffiSync
http://www.offisync.com/
OffiSync
OffiSync Now Lets You Co-Author Files With Most Versions Of Microsoft Office (And Google Docs)
A plugin for Microsoft Office that serves as a bridge between Office and Google Docs.
OffiSync is a Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010 software extension that adds to the core functionality of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint real time co-authoring capabilities as well as the ability to save and manage files on the cloud.

Free Office Software
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/free-office-software
Free Office Software
The open source movement has meant there's now more top quality, legit free software floating around the web than ever. We've cherrypicked some of the best downloads for PC and Macs (and a few for Linux), to help you completely kit out your computer for nowt.

Editing Office files on Windows Live
http://bit.ly/hIlLzu
Editing Office files on Windows Live
On a computer that isn’t equipped with Microsoft Office? If you have an Internet connection and a Windows Live account, you may still be able to edit your Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents.

Gaggle Apps
https://www.gaggle.net/
Gaggle Apps
"What are Gaggle Apps you ask? They are a suite of safe online learning tools that will propel your students and teachers into true 21st century learning."
Gaggle was launched in 1999 and was one of the pioneering companies to provide a safe student email solution. Since then Gaggle has grown to offer so much more. We have grown to be a leader in “safe technology” within the K-12 market. Gaggle currently provides safe student communication tools to more than 15,000 schools in 57 countries, while managing over 2 million accounts and storing more than 750 million emails. Our online tools include safe student email, shared calendars, homework drop boxes, message boards, blogs, digital lockers, online document editing and collaborative, safe SMS Texting and filtered YouTube access.
You can purchase individual accounts for $6.00 each or as little as $3.75 per student on a district wide basis. The accounts are sold as an annual subscription service.

Google Docs Welcomes (means 'buys') DocVerse
http://bit.ly/b3Ay3Q
Google Docs Welcomes (means 'buys') DocVerse
DocVerse is a small, nimble team of talented developers who share our vision, and they’ve enabled true collaboration right within Microsoft Office.
With DocVerse, people can begin to experience some of the benefits of web-based collaboration using the traditional Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint desktop applications.

DocVerse overview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfNQ0WeHXE

Revamped Microsoft Office Will Be Free on the Web
http://nyti.ms/dzNevr
Revamped Microsoft Office Will Be Free on the Web
Microsoft has created a chimera in its new Office 2010 software, part desktop software and part Web app.
This latest version of Office, which includes applications like Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, is Microsoft’s long-awaited effort to modernize one of its most lucrative products and to thwart rivals like Google that are nipping at its heels with free Web software.
For the first time, Microsoft will provide a free online version of Office that lets people store their documents on the Web rather than on their personal computers.

Upgrade Office with Google Docs
http://mashable.com/2010/05/12/upgrade-office-google-docs/
Google Wants You to Upgrade Office with Google Docs
Google takes an interesting standpoint on Office.
Instead of claiming you should simply ditch Microsoft Office altogether and switch to Docs, Google assumes that most users already own a copy of Office 2007 or 2003.
But, instead of upgrading to Office 2010, Google says, you should simply switch to Docs, which, in Google’s eyes, is the perfect partner for one of the older versions of Office.

The Microsoft Web Platform
http://www.microsoft.com/web/default.aspx
The Microsoft Web Platform gives you the framework, web server, database and tools you need to build and run Web sites and applications on Windows.
Could be helpful to a school that wants to set up its own CMS behind a firewall.

Docs
http://docs.com/
Docs
Now you can discover, create, and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends.
Built using Microsoft Office 2010 – Docs for Facebook lets you work from just about anywhere with the familiar Office experience.
Includes Word and PowerPoint in the cloud.

SharePoint Competitor Central Desktop
http://tcrn.ch/bk7mOz
SharePoint Competitor Central Desktop
Central Desktop, a SharePoint-like SaaS collaboration platform for the enterprise, is launching a new tool that allows for cloud-enabled document collaboration for Microsoft Office users.
Central Desktop’s tool allows users to simultaneously co-author Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in real time, as well as open and save files directly into the cloud.

SoftMaker Office 2010 for Windows and Linux
http://www.softmaker.com/english/
SoftMaker Office 2010 for Windows and Linux

DocVerse
http://www.docverse.com/
DocVerse, a service that lets users collaborate around Microsoft Office documents
Painless, real time sharing and simultaneous group-editing editing of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents.
Docverse lets users collaborate directly on Microsoft Office documents.
DocVerse was purchased by Google in Dec 2009 ... so may change.

Collaboration Inside Microsoft Office
http://mashable.com/2009/11/06/docverse/
DocVerse Puts Google Docs-Like Collaboration Inside Microsoft Office
DocVerse brings the collaboration functionality of products like Google Docs to the 600 million users of Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
It’s a plug-in for Microsoft Office that adds this type of functionality to a new sidebar within Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, and Word.
This sidebar is where all of DocVerse’s magic happens. You can invite friends and colleagues to collaborate on any documents. As you and others make edits, those changes are synced to the cloud. In addition to a hard copy, the plug-in automatically saves a web-based version of the doc that others can see to make collaboration easy.
DocVerse’s collaboration suite isn’t free, though. It’s $49/month for 10 users and 500 documents and $99 per month for 25 users and 1500 documents.

OOo4Kids or Open Office for Kids
http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page
OOo4Kids or Open Office for Kids
Word processing, drawing (which includes a mind mapping feature as you are able to add what is known as 'call outs'), presentations and spreadsheets.
The idea is to provide a 7-12 years software, based on OpenOffice.org source code, say, extremely simplified. Everything is made with the idea to contribute back to OpenOffice.org Project, through OpenOffice.org Education Project, and students projects, but not only (all sort of contributions are welcome, of course). Resources are managed by the EducOOo non profit association.

Microsoft Office to go online — for free
http://tr.im/sgj4
Microsoft Office to go online — for free ... early 2010

The Complete Guide To Microsofts Office 2010
http://tr.im/se21
The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010
Microsoft has been touting its three screens strategy, which is the ability for products to synchronize across the phone, browser, and desktop, for some time now.
Here’s a complete breakdown of all the functionality that has been added, including screenshots....

Open Office Blog
http://openoffice.blogs.com/
Open Office Blog
OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas
Blogging by Solveig Haugland, author of the OpenOffice.org Guidebook and owner of GetOpenOffice.org. Tips for using, transitioning, and more.

Peepel is a Collaborative Online Office Suite
http://www.peepel.com/
Peepel is a Collaborative Online Office Suite
The Peepel Online Office Suite provides our Users with the freedom to communicate and work online (and, before long, offline) without the expense of propriety software, the technical hassles and the inevitable pain of upgrading both operating systems and applications.

A tour of Office Online by a guy who works here
http://tinyurl.com/5pjrgq
A tour of Office Online by a guy who works there

Google Docs for Educators
http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs.html
Google Docs for Educators
Video with teachers and principals talking about Google Docs
How Students and Teachers can use Google Docs # Overview for Educators (presentation)
# Google Docs: The Basics
# Google Docs: Tips and Tricks
# Google Docs in Plain English (video)

Open Office Video Tutorials
http://tinyurl.com/6a6rct
Open Office Video Tutorials

MS Office Webcasts
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/webcasts/default.aspx
MS Office Webcasts and Tutorials
View webcasts, video tips, podcasts, and more from experts who can deliver tips, tricks, and training to your computer. Jump right in with these free materials, including live webcasts and a unique e-mail program.

Official Google Docs Blog
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/
Official Google Docs Blog ... for news of all the developments

ThinkFree Office
http://member.thinkfree.com/
Welcome to the world of ThinkFree Office 3. An office suite of high performance word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications that is extremely compatible with Microsoft® Word,
Online and downloadable client versions

Adobe does a Google Docs with online suite
https://acrobat.com/
Adobe does a Google Docs with online suite
The site, which treads on the toes of services such as Google Docs and Zoho.com, allows visitors to create, store and share documents online.
Acrobat.com inlcudes the Adobe Buzzword word processor, which was launched at the start of the year, along with the option to turn up to five documents into PDFs.
The site also provides online document storage and ConnectNow collaboration facilities, which allow people to work on documents together using instant messaging, voice or video conferencing.

Google Docs
http://docs.google.com
Google Docs .. online wordprocessor and spreadsheets

The Fifth Element (Free)
http://ssuite5element.webs.com/thefifthelement.htm
The Fifth Element (Free)
The Future of Desktop Office Suites
This office suite runs on all Windows platforms and all hardware systems. With its full 32-bit architecture and stability, it can improve your productivity and document format compatibility. This office suite introduces some new innovative concepts in interface design and user-friendly application interaction. You get instant system access, top class application design and a cleaner desktop to name a few.
The graphical-user-interface has been made into a more iconic-toolbar, mouse centric type of interface. This increases user-interaction speed and user productivity.
So... if you enjoy a more uncluttered desktop, cleaner looking application interfaces, and faster software interaction, then this office suite is for You!

Google Pack Adds StarOffice
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-pack-adds-staroffice.html
Google Pack Adds StarOffice
Google Pack, the collection of applications recommended by Google, includes a new software: StarOffice, an office suite developed by Sun. In 2000 Sun released StarOffice's source code, which became the foundation of OpenOffice.org, an open source project sponsored by Sun.
StarOffice 8 is a full-featured office suite that contains a word processor, a spreadsheet tool, applications for presentations, databases, math formulas and drawing. It has support for most Microsoft Office formats (except for the formats introduced in Office 2007), but it can also export documents as PDF out of the box. The software normally costs $70, but it's available for free in Google Pack.
It's worth noting that StarOffice has a huge installer (more than 140 MB), so you should download it only if you have a fast Internet connection.

Web Office Suite: Who's Leading The Pack?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_office_suite_comparison.php
Web Office Suite: Who's Leading The Pack? .. coparisons
Read/WriteWeb is a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis. It began publishing on April 20, 2003 and is now one of the most widely read and respected Web 2.0 blogs

KOffice is a free, integrated office suite
http://www.koffice.org/
KOffice is an integrated office suite for the KDE (K Desktop Environment) consisting of several applications like for examples a word processor (KWord) and a spread sheet (KSpread). Based on the KParts component model, KOffice offers a lot of interoperability between all its components. For example, you can embed every KOffice component into another component (for example a KSpread table into your KWord document.)
KOffice is an open-source project and completely free.

My Office 2.0 Setup
http://itredux.com/blog/office-20/
My Office 2.0 Setup
This list very neatly puts together a selections of Web 2.0 websites that would provide all the functionaility you would need for running an office or business (or school?)
So that all is needed is a network computer connected to the internet.
Click on My Office 2.0 Setup
In its original incarnation circa 1996, the concept for a Network Computer (NC) did not really make sense. It offered a fraction of the functionality provided by a regular Personal Computer (PC), at a similar purchase price. But most importantly, nobody really cared. The web was just starting and the promoters of this new platform (Oracle and Sun Microsystems) found it difficult to make a case for it beyond their common distaste for anything Microsoft.

Zoho Virtual Office
http://www.zoho.com/
Zoho Virtual Office is a groupware that provides a virtual collaboration platform using which individuals and groups can communicate, collaborate, organize and share information seamlessly using number of useful applications like E-mail Client, Virtual storage for Documents, Personal and Group Calendar, Task Scheduler, Contacts Manager, Instant Messaging, Discussions board, etc.
Zoho Virtual Office allows users to create multiple groups, and use all of these components within groups unleashing the real power of collaboration.
web 2.0 |

First Office 2.0 Suites
http://itredux.com/
First Office 2.0 Suites : details and advice

Zoho Virtual Office
http://www.zoho.com/virtual-office/
Zoho Virtual Office
Web-based groupware & collaboration software. It gives you an array of applications, that includes Email, Documents, Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes, Links, IM and more.
web 2.0

Open Office Training Materials (free)
http://www.getopenoffice.org/
Open Office Training Materials (free)
GetOpenOffice.org's engaging, practical classes and step-by-step learning materials give users the training they need to do simple core tasks or advanced procedures.

Microsoft's Education Products Group
http://www.microsoft.com/learningessentials/default.mspx
Microsoft's Education Products Group
"Microsoft's Education Products Group has just launched a new Web site to support its Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office, a free educational resource for teachers and students" FREE Office Tools for teachers and students
e.g.
Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office is a desktop application that runs on top of Microsoft Office to give students and teachers a custom Office environment
With the Content Development Kit (CDK) for Learning Essentials you can create and integrate additional content into Learning Essentials.

Free OpenOffice.org 2.0 Lessons
http://www.digitaldistribution.com/about/lessons/
Free OpenOffice.org 2.0 Lessons | The free OpenOffice.org 2 Guides

gOffice : Free browser-based online office suite
http://goffice.com/
gOffice : Free browser-based online office suite.

Think Free Office Online (Free)
http://online.thinkfree.com/
Think Free Office Online : Free
A web-based FREE word processor, presentation software, and spreadsheet that 'look and feel' very similar to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
As well as these three robust cross-platform applications, users of ThinkFree Online have access to 30 Mb or more of secure online file storage.
They can create and edit documents right in their Web browser, save their documents online, and open them later using any computer connected to the Internet, or open existing .doc, .ppt, or .xls documents on computers not equipped with Microsoft Office. ThinkFree Online delivers the flexibility and freedom to edit documents anytime and anywhere.

Office 2003/XP/2000 Add-in: Office Sounds (free)
http://www.tinyurl.com/8z4e6
Office 2003/XP/2000 Add-in: Office Sounds (free)
You can install these sounds to have fun audio cues play as you work with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Word. For example, you will hear sounds when you:
Work with toolbars, scroll bars, or dialog boxes | Zoom in or out | Send e-mail | Open the task pane |

OpenOffice 2.0
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/
OpenOffice 2.0
OpenOffice.org 2.0 - word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation tool and more
OpenOffice.org 2.0 is an open, feature-rich multi-platform office productivity suite. The user interface and the functionality is very similar to other products in the market like Microsoft Office or Lotus SmartSuite, but in contrast to these commercial products OpenOffice.org is absolutely free.

NeoOffice : Open Office for Mac OS
http://www.neooffice.org/
NeoOffice : Open Office for Mac OS
Welcome to the online home of "Neolithic Office", or NeoOffice?for short. NeoOffice the main development project for making OpenOffice.org to run natively on MacOS X. It is a free software port of OpenOffice.org to the MacOS X platform.
NeoOffice/J is a full featured office productivity suite including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and macro functionality. It can be used as a free alternative to Microsoft Office:Mac. You can exchange documents with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org users, even on other platforms!

Nifty Tricks with Microsoft Office
http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/mbell.html
Nifty Tricks with Microsoft Office

Logotron School Office
http://www.logo.com/cat/view/school-office.html
Logotron School Office
School Office provides all the tools that you, as a teacher, need to get your teaching work done quickly and easily. It is designed to speed up lesson preparation, make the most of your interactive whiteboard and allow you to share and re-use material with your colleagues.
School Office also provides a host of Templates to help you save valuable time. These can be used to create many of the standard documents, spreadsheets and presentations needed throughout the school. In addition, there are many Example documents to illustrate the material that can be created.
The result of this opportunity means that schools can save a lot of money with a very genuine alternative to Microsoft.

On-Line Technology Practice Modules
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line.htm
On-Line Technology Practice Modules
Step-by-step tutorials for learning a variety of applications commonly used in K-12 classrooms.
word | excel | powerpoint | windows | access | claris |

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