My pals over at Download Squad wrote about this yesterday: Microsoft is offering Office Accounting Epxress 2007 for free. It’s the first time I can recall Microsoft offering a business focused application for free. I’ve been beta testing the new Accounting 2007 for the last 2-3 months, and it seems to have a nice flow and is certainly better than an underpowered Quicken for Home & Business - and nicer than the awkwardly designed Peachtree applications. I’m going to download this free version and give it a test run. The early comments on DSQ seem to indicate that it is definitely worth a try.
Google announced this morning that it had purchased JotSpot, one of the more creative wiki application companies out there. One of the huge benefits of this is that Jot’s capabilities will now have a large infrastructure and essentially be free to use. Hopefully Google won’t wait too long to integrate JotSpot into its other offerings, but I’m not holding my breath on that. Google has yet to integrate gmail, calendar, and it’s “Office” offerings onto a common platform. When they do, however, the addition of JotSpot will make the Google ‘platform’ a serious contender for those looking to put all their eggs in ‘the cloud’.
The guys over at gottabemobile received some interesting correspondence from a reader. According to the reader, Dell sees the education market at the point of entry for a tablet, and that one may be on its way in late spring of 2007. Now that Microsoft is packaging tablet technology into Vista, only the hardware part of the equation remains. Here’s an interesting quote from the article:
They said Michael Dell was very much against the tablet. Over time though he realized the tablet was a gateway into the school for other vendors.
Source: GottaBeMobile.com - A Dell Tablet PC coming this spring? - Your Tablet PC and Ultra-Mobile PC news source
