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Nine months after Google daringly launched a sync tool to link its hosted Apps collaboration and communication suite with arch-rival Microsoft’s Outlook PC software, results have been poor. Google states that most organizations using the Outlook sync tool are very satisfied. However, IDG News Service, over the course of several weeks and even after enlisting [...]

Nine months after Google daringly launched a sync tool to link its hosted Apps collaboration and communication suite with arch-rival Microsoft’s Outlook PC software, results have been poor. Google states that most organizations using the Outlook sync tool are very satisfied. However, IDG News Service, over the course of several weeks and even after enlisting [...]

Google’s enterprise division is hosting several hundred CIOs on Monday at its headquarters, where it will unveil enhancements to its Docs office suite, including a revamped code base. Docs, which Google has in the past acknowledged doesn’t match the sophistication or the features of Microsoft Office, is now architected in a way that will allow [...]

Google is adding two features to its Google Message Security, a hosted service for monitoring and managing email systems that filters message content based on pre-established policies and protects against spam, viruses, and other threats. On Wednesday, Google will upgrade Message Security by making it possible for a copy of a message to be delivered [...]

A bug in Google Apps’ Sync for Microsoft Outlook that has apparently existed for months is causing some email messages to remain in Gmail servers and not be downloaded into Outlook, causing end-users to overlook messages or see them late. End-users in organizations hit by the bug are having to check the Gmail Web interface [...]

Google’s assault on Microsoft’s enterprise software business continues to advance with a new tool that helps companies move away from Exchange. The Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange tool will launch later today, designed to give Exchange administrators help in moving their users’ data into Google Apps. It’s all part of Google’s pitch for the [...]

Google plucked another start-up from the Bay Area Friday, this time adding DocVerse to its Google Apps team. The deal–which The Wall Street Journal reported was valued at $25 million–will allow Google to start blending DocVerse’s Microsoft Office plug-in software into Google Apps, DocVerse and Google said in blog postings on their respective sites. DocVerse’s [...]

With its acquisition of DocVerse, announced Friday, Google is offering an online component to Microsoft Word before Microsoft does so itself. DocVerse, a company founded by two former Microsoft employees, lets Microsoft Office users share and edit their documents online. The software is an Office plug-in that tracks and synchs changes that people make to [...]

Microsoft may be close to adding a new way for big businesses to buy Microsoft Office. Under a new license called “union, Microsoft would charge enterprises the same for software whether it is hosted on-premises or in the cloud, according to a report in SDTimes earlier this week that quoted unnamed Microsoft channel partners who [...]

Google’s decision to postpone the launch of two new Android phones in China this week points to the wider implications of the search giant’s potential exit from the market. A decision to leave China could deliver a blow to Android, which has just recently gained notable momentum, and could bring opportunity to Google’s struggling rival [...]