The division that includes Office word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications, and Sharepoint software that workers use to collaborate, grew by 24 percent, to more than $6 billion.
To the extent that Google has challenged Microsoft's core business, it is through Google Docs, its online word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications.
And even companies are unlikely to ditch their Windows PCs for the sort of employees that Microsoft calls "information workers"—the lawyers, consultants, accountants and so forth who use presentation applications, spreadsheets, fancy graphics and the like.
It comes loaded with Firefox, Skype, OpenOffice word processor, as well as spreadsheet and presentation applications.
Prezi, a popular alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint and other presentation applications, launched a new version of its interface today.
It's available as a plugin for Firefox and IE on Zoho Writer and will be on their spreadsheet and presentation applications soon as well.
We've talked about a lot of online presentation applications, both formal (Zoho, Google, Empressr, Thumbstacks, Preezo, Slideshare) and informal (RockYou, Filmloop, Scrapblog, Bubbleshare).
Radhakrishnan said that users were basically taking parts of Paper documents and pasting them into presentation applications given that the documents had turned into large lexicons of a project for meetings.
In theory, government agents who are scattered geographically will be able to log on and meet "face to face" as realistic avatars in a digital conference room equipped with video and audio conferencing, presentation applications, and file sharing, all provided by IBM's unified communications software.
No longer does a new business owner need to make significant a technology investment to get started; now they can subscribe to a service like Microsoft Office 365 to get everything from professional email to word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications, to storage and collaboration space, at a low cost.
