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  Review: Quickoffice Connect is a poor iCloud clone

  Quickoffice rivals Apple's iWork suite as the best office productivity app for the iPad and iPhone, and it is unquestionably the best office app for Android devices. It makes sense to choose Quickoffice as the standard mobile office app in workplaces that have a mix of iOS and Android devices. It also makes sense that you'd want access to your documents from any device you happen to have in front of you, whether it runs iOS, Android, Mac OS X, or Windows. A cloud-savvy office app that lets you continue to work on your projects as you move from one device to another is a no-brainer.

  By Galen Gruman | 01 May, 2012 20:12

  Tags: Android, Apple, applications, cloud computing, cloud storage, consumer electronics, hardware systems, internet, iPad, iPhone, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, mobile apps, mobile technology, Office Software, operating systems, QuickOffice, smartphones, software, tablets

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  Finally! An Office cloud service for iPad worth using

  For some reason, 2012 is shaping up to be the year of Cloud-based Windows 7 and Microsoft Office offerings, including scarily bad services such as OnLive Desktop, which was a media darling in January based on nothing more than demos. The real product is all but unusable - you lose your connection when you switch to other apps, for example, and you can't use the iPad's native keyboard. Plus, the company violated Microsoft's Windows 7 licensing terms, offering an essentially illegal desktop-as-a-service product. (That issue has since been resolved.)

  By Galen Gruman | 12 April, 2012 20:12

  Tags: applications, cloud computing, hardware systems, internet, iPad, Microsoft, mobile apps, mobile technology, Office Software, OnLive, QuickOffice, SaaS, software, Software as a service, tablets

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  LibreOffice 3.5: The best Office killer yet

  OpenOffice.org has long been one of the top competitors to Microsoft Office, but the open source productivity suite's future was clouded in 2009 when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems.

  By Neil McAllister | 29 February, 2012 22:11

  Tags: Apache Foundation, applications, Document Foundation, Microsoft, Office Software, OpenOffice.org, open source software, oracle, software, Sun Microsystems

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  OnLive's train wreck: Office on the iPad

  Demos, like appearances, can be deceiving. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, one of the media hits was OnLive Desktop, a service that provisions a Windows 7 desktop environment that includes Microsoft Office 2010 to the iPad over an Internet connection. For many, the idea of being able to run the full Office suite is very appealing, given some of the limitations of the iPad's native office productivity tools such as Apple iWork suite (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers), Quickoffice, and Documents to Go.

  By Galen Gruman | 07 February, 2012 22:11

  Tags: Apple, applications, cloud computing, hardware systems, internet, iPad, Microsoft, microsoft office, Microsoft Windows, mobile technology, Office Software, OnLive, operating systems, QuickOffice, SaaS, software, Software as a service, tablets, virtual desktop, Virtualization, Windows, Windows 7

• OfficeTime updates desktop app with eye to iOS launch

  The OfficeTime time-management desktop app has been upgraded with more than 100 improvements--and an eye on expanding its capabilities to the iPhone and iPad.

  By Joel Mathis | 21 June, 2011 03:41

  Tags: Apple iOS, Office Software, software

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