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Microsoft Adds Chrome Support For Office Web Apps 46

CWmike writes "Microsoft will release the first service pack for Office 2010 in late June, when it will for the first time support Google's Chrome running the suite's online applications using SharePoint 2010, the company said on Monday. Google and Microsoft have repeatedly knocked heads over each others' online applications. In May 2010, Matthew Glotzbach, Google's enterprise product management director, kicked off the public battle by urging companies to forget about upgrading to Office 2010 and calling on them to instead add Google Docs to their mix. 'Google Docs makes Office 2003 and 2007 better,' Glotzbach said at the time. Microsoft quickly countered by saying that Google Docs' integration with Office was inferior to Office Web Applications' and that its rival's claims were 'simply not true.'"

Comment Innovators will find a use for it (Score 1) 336

Thomas Watson, IBM 1943 - "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". And there's a Bill Gates quote I can't find that says something similar. 6 years ago, before the iPhone/smartphone revolution, you'd wonder who would ever want a dual-core chip in a phone. Now we can't make chips fast enough for the awesome games and apps coming out for the iPhone. Innovators will always figure out a way to use more computer power.

Comment CommonTag (Score 1) 102

There are a lot of companies and organizations trying to champion linked data, but linked data is nothing if those same companies and organizations don't adopt standards and push them ubiquitously. That was the motivation behind http://commontag.org/. It's a semantic data set of interrelated semantic concepts from various sources, but with a pretty impressive line of companies backing it up and implementing it.

Comment Re:So What! it's Chess all over again! (Score 1) 312

I believe Polaris has style-learning abilities as well.

"Polaris's second ability is learning. The program studies how opponents are playing and makes adjustments to its style in response. At last year's event in Vancouver, the machine played the first two matches purely on its memory, earning a draw and a victory. For the third and fourth matches, the scientists activated its learning mechanism, programming Polaris based on what they had seen from opponents Phil Laak and Ali Eslami."

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=714f37e4-c680-4863-8db1-a772c53e8dd9

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