Office Under Attack! Again! -- Redmond Channel Partner

Pender's Blog by Lee Pender, RCPU Editor

Office Under Attack! Again!

Old hands are gunning for Microsoft Office. Lately, we've heard of Google's productivity-suite tag team with Capgemini targeting Microsoft Office. There's also a newly released Google PowerPoint competitor . Now, IBM has come lumbering back into the suite game with a free offering based on some old Lotus stuff .

We're looking at IBM's underwhelming offering as another also-ran (although you never know), but it does raise the question -- addressed by ZDNet's amazing three-headed blog -- as to whether there's anybody out there who's not trying to dethrone these kind of the suites.

And speaking of Office, the third service pack for Office 2003

is out now.

Posted by Lee Pender on September 19, 2007

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