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Filling in a hole in its Google Apps suite, Google has acquired Tonic Systems, which provides a set of tools for the online editing, viewing, and sharing of presentations created with Microsoft PowerPoint. Tonic Systems describes itself as “Java PowerPoint Specialists.” Google says it will incorporate Tonic’s technology into a new presentation service that will be added this summer to Apps.
Read more on the Rough Type blog.
Several months ago, Indezine interviewed Chris Nokleberg of Tonic Systems for this blog. Read the interview here.
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Articulate announced Articulate Online, a new user-friendly hosted service that allows you to track how employees, customers and prospects interact with your e-learning courses, assessments, and presentations. This service also integrates seamlessly with Articulate’s other offerings: Articulate Presenter and Articulate Engage, thus allowing easy publish and distribution options.
Read more info on the Articulate site.
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The biggest feature in Microsoft’s new Office 2007 suite is most certainly the interface. Gone are the menus and the toolbars — now all the commands are available in the various tabs of the Ribbon. The Ribbon is much more intuitive — but for seasoned users who have been working with Microsoft Office applications for more than a decade, it does involve a serious amount of unlearning.
An interesting add-in for Office applications like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel now brings back the menus and toolbars — all inside a new Ribbon tab called “Menus”! The add-in is called Classic Menu Manager.
Read the Indezine review of Classic Menu for Office 2007.
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Google Inc. plans to launch software similar to Microsoft Corp.’s popular PowerPoint program as the two companies vie to dominate the online experience….This completes what most users of PCs consider the Office suite, said John Battelle, who leads Federated Media Publishing and grilled Schmidt about the product at the conference….Microsoft spokeswoman Lisa Koetz said competition is good for customers, and Microsoft is listening to the 450 million people who use Microsoft Office to ensure it is meeting their needs.
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Electric Rain was selected as the grand prize winner of the Windows Vista Code Master Challenge for its development of the StandOut presentation solution, a new desktop application for creating stunning cinematic-style presentations. Electric Rain StandOut was selected for the $50,000 grand prize out of more than 4,400 registrants.
Read more info on the Electric Rain site.
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