Can Chinese Office Software Crack the Monopoly?

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Chinese IT company breaks Microsoft
office software monopoly

Chinese IT company breaks Microsoft
office software monopoly 12/24/2003 05:22 AM
China Daily Dec 24 2003 4:48AM ET

China breaks Microsoft office software
monopoly

China breaks Microsoft office software
monopoly 12/23/2003 09:13 PM
Xinhuanet Dec 23 2003 8:33PM ET

Software startup challenges Microsoft's
Office monopoly

Software startup challenges Microsoft's
Office monopoly 02/17/2004 01:10 PM
Peoples Daily Online Feb 17 2004 5:03PM GMT

Chinese Office software threatens
Microsoft's grip

Chinese Office software threatens
Microsoft's grip 05/18/2004 01:31 PM
EVERMORE INTEGRATED OFFICE 2004, or EIOffice, is the latest office software release from Chinese developer Evermore Software. Evermore Software say this latest copy has made great progress in speed, compatibility and graphics, and the People's Daily agrees. The new piece of software is said to have made improvements in its document processing system, to fit the needs of government and business users.

Chinese Cops Crack Down on Mobile Porn

Chinese Cops Crack Down on Mobile Porn 03/29/2005 01:56 PM

If you're a conessiour of mobile porn and happen to be travelling in China, a word of advice: they don't take kindly to your smut around those parts. The China Press is reporting that pornographic or even just 'lewd' images on mobiles are an infraction, and Chinese police reserve the right to conduct surprise checks on moblile phones users. I don't know if pornography in general is illegal in China, but it will probably be best to keep it off your phone and on your laptop, where it belongs.

And no, I have no idea what these Chinese characters mean, but I bet it's something vulgar.

Cops to get tough on mobile phones with lewd images [TheStarMY via Pic turePhoning]

Chinese startup takes aim at Microsoft
Office

Chinese startup takes aim at Microsoft
Office 02/13/2004 09:16 AM
It took Gus Tsao nearly nine years to raise enough money to launch his China-based technology startup, Evermore Software LLC. Now the 59-year-old immigrant is poised for an even tougher mission: beating Microsoft Corp. in the Chinese market for office software, and maybe taking a tiny bite out of the Redmond, Wash.-based giant's dominance elsewhere. "Everyone thinks I'm crazy to take on Microsoft, but China is not going to pay Microsoft forever with their prices," Tsao said.

Chinese Competitor To Microsoft Office
Ready

Chinese Competitor To Microsoft Office
Ready 05/18/2004 02:52 AM
It was just a few years ago that the conventional wisdom was that Microsoft had won the OS war, won the browser war and (most convincingly of all) won the office productivity suite war. It looks like they're facing increasing competition on all of those fronts - but the most surprising may be the office productivity suite arena. Star Office/Open Office has gotten plenty of attention, but recently we saw IBM launch their own hosted suite but the biggest opportunities may be outside the US. Already, there are stories about China, Japan and Korea working on alternative operating systems and applications to get out from under the Microsoft thumb, and now Evermore is launching the latest version of their EI Office suite which is specifically targeted at the Chinese market. They offer versions of the software in Simplified Chinese, American English and Japanese. The one area where they might be causing themselves trouble is with the price. They offer two options: rentals at $99/year or $249 for 3 years - which isn't all that different from Microsoft's own pricing. If they really want to cause trouble, they should under price Microsoft.

Chinese developer intros MS Office
competitor

Chinese developer intros MS Office
competitor 02/18/2004 08:09 PM
At this week's Demo Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., Chinese software developer Evermore Software LLC introduced the English-language version of its Evermore Integrated Office, or EIOffice. The company is hoping to garner attention from customers that might otherwise consider Microsoft Corp.'s seemingly ubiquitous Office application suite.

Chinese company to challenge Microsoft's
Office

Chinese company to challenge Microsoft's
Office 01/27/2004 12:14 AM
Little-known Chinese software maker Evermore Software next month plans to step up its challenge to Microsoft's Office dominance with the release of its Evermore Integrated Office 2004.

Chinese startup takes aim at ruling
Microsoft Office

Chinese startup takes aim at ruling
Microsoft Office 02/12/2004 08:53 PM
AP via The Ledger Feb 13 2004 0:41AM GMT

Microsoft Office System Chinese edition
launched

Microsoft Office System Chinese edition
launched 11/13/2003 04:16 AM
Xinhuanet Nov 13 2003 3:40AM ET

Chinese Theater Improvements Work -- Big
Box Office Increase

Chinese Theater Improvements Work -- Big
Box Office Increase 04/18/2005 08:01 AM
Last month, we noted that the movie industry in the US might want to steal a few pages from the playbook of the Chinese movie industry. While the American movie studios whine and complain that they' ll never get people to come to the movies, the Chinese movie industry (where counterfeiting movies is a much, much, much bigger problem than in the US) decided to compete by recog nizing that movie-going is a social experience and coming up with ways to improve that overall experience. Would you believe it worked? The latest studies show a huge increase in the box office take in China last year. Movies are entertainment -- but it's not just the content. If the industry worked on ways to make the movie-going experience, itself, much more enjoyable, it wouldn't matter if even they, themselves, made the content available for free download. People can drink alcohol at home, and they do, but they still go out to bars, and pay much more to do so, because it's part of the social experience. You don't see the liquor (or bar) companies freaking out about all this "home drinking."

Chinese Company [hopes] to Challenge
Microsoft's Office

Chinese Company [hopes] to Challenge
Microsoft's Office 01/27/2004 02:25 AM
Little-known Chinese software maker Evermore Software next month plans to step up its challenge to Microsoft's Office dominance with the release of its Evermore Integrated Office 2004. The Wuxi City, China, company plans to launch the product at the Demo conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, next month. Evermore Integrated Office (EIOffice) combines the components of traditional productivity suites into one application. Users launch EIOffice, not a word processor, then a spreadsheet application, then a presentation tool. Documents are stored in a single file format and the application, written in Java, runs on any operating systems that supports Java, including Windows and Linux, according to Evermore.

Microsoft Office System launches Chinese
edition

Microsoft Office System launches Chinese
edition 11/13/2003 09:54 PM
Xinhuanet Nov 13 2003 8:25PM ET

Chinese startup takes aim at Microsoft
Office, claims superiority

Chinese startup takes aim at Microsoft
Office, claims superiority 02/15/2004 05:02 PM
Financial Post Feb 15 2004 9:08PM GMT

Chinese developer intros Java-based MS
Office competitor

Chinese developer intros Java-based MS
Office competitor 02/18/2004 10:49 AM
At this week's DEMO Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., Chinese software developer Evermore Software LLC introduced the English-language version of its Evermore Integrated Office, or EIOffice. The company is hoping to garner attention from customers that might otherwise consider Microsoft's seemingly ubiquitous Office application suite.

Microsoft to pour millions into Chinese
software industry

Microsoft to pour millions into Chinese
software industry 04/15/2004 10:14 AM
Business Report Apr 15 2004 1:57PM GMT

Chinese video software market generated
$990 mln in 2004

Chinese video software market generated
$990 mln in 2004 04/10/2005 07:27 AM
ZDNet Apr 10 2005 10:30AM GMT

Chinese Patent Office Grants Fingerprint
Recognition Hardware Patent

Chinese Patent Office Grants Fingerprint
Recognition Hardware Patent 12/28/2004 11:11 PM
ChinaTechNews.com Dec 29 2004 3:10AM GMT

From A Second Tier Chinese Portal Site
To An Enterprise Software Powerhouse?

From A Second Tier Chinese Portal Site
To An Enterprise Software Powerhouse? 05/04/2004 03:56 AM
Business Week is running an article looking at the changing strategies of chinadotcom. The company, which had always been a second tier portal site in China (not as popular as Sina, Netease or Sohu), is now trying to completely reinvent itself. They're selling off that going nowhere portal business, and are desperately trying to become an enterprise software player in the Chinese market. To do so, they've been using some of the cash they've been hoarding (from a boom-time IPO on the NASDAQ) to buy up struggling western enterprise software makers like Pivotal and Ross Systems. While the article seems to indicate this is a good strategy, they don't make it clear why. Going from a second tier portal to a consolidation play of widely distributed, previously failed, out-of-date enterprise software products seems like a shift sideways, rather than up.

Software Lets You Be in Office but Not

Software Lets You Be in Office but Not 12/22/2003 12:38 PM
AP via Newsday Dec 22 2003 12:14PM ET

Software lets you be in office but not

Software lets you be in office but not 12/22/2003 11:22 AM
Boston Globe Dec 22 2003 10:49AM ET

Apple office software seems likely

Apple office software seems likely 01/04/2005 02:56 PM
IGG Software has dropped the name "iWork" from its product lineup. Is Apple about to pick it up?

Open Office Software Development Kit
1.1.0

Open Office Software Development Kit
1.1.0 12/16/2003 04:06 PM
An add-on for OpenOffice.

RUMOR: Apple office software seems
likely

RUMOR: Apple office software seems
likely 01/05/2005 02:07 PM
A small Macintosh software developer has renamed an application it had been calling iWork, lending credence to rumors that Apple plans to introduce office software of the same name.

IGG Software, which has marketed a time-billing application as iWork, has changed the program's name to iBiz. The change, which is reflected on the company's Web site, follows reports on rumor sites that Apple plans to offer its own suite of word processing and presentation software.

Enthusiast site ThinkSecret reported last week that a product from Apple called iWork would include an updated version of Apple's presentation software, Keynote, and a new word processing program, which the site says will be called Pages. The site predicted Apple would unveil the product at next week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Such a program would be an interesting move for Apple, which has for years kept its office software ambitions limited, counting instead on Microsoft to produce a Mac version of Microsoft Office.

News source: C|Net News.com

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IBM To Offer Web-Based Office Software

IBM To Offer Web-Based Office Software 05/10/2004 04:31 AM
Microsoft's Office productivity suite is facing increasing competition from folks like StarOffice and it's open source cousin OpenOffice. There have been a few other small startups like SimDesk that have won a few big deals. Now, IBM is ready to jump into the market with a web-based office productivity suite. It includes an email client, a word processor, a spread-sheet and a personal database offering. What's interesting is that they try to go beyond just being Office clones by the combination online/offline system. The software will work offline as a typical client desktop application, but will also synchronize with a server whenever online - so you get automatic backups and access from multiple machines. They're also trying to price it cheaply: $2/user per month - but you also need to buy the server software. It would be smart (and perhaps they, or a partner are doing this) to also offer a hosted version for smaller businesses or individual users, so that they don't have to set up and maintain the server software themselves. This, obviously, fits in with IBM's push to make computing more of a utility offering where IBM just hosts everything and people buy the services and processing power they need.

Medical office software coming to Mac OS
X

Medical office software coming to Mac OS
X 04/26/2004 10:25 AM
HealthCare Communications, which recently announced plans for dental software for the Mac, is also developing HWMD, a medical management software package for Mac OS X...

Microsoft to Share Office Software Code

Microsoft to Share Office Software Code 09/19/2004 07:33 PM
Linux Electrons Sep 19 2004 11:17PM GMT

Macworld: New Office leads software
parade

Macworld: New Office leads software
parade 01/06/2004 02:26 PM
ZDNet Jan 6 2004 1:48PM ET

Evermore Software taking on Microsoft
Office

Evermore Software taking on Microsoft
Office 02/17/2004 02:29 PM
Evermore Software LLC, a Chinese software developer, is taking on Microsoft Office with the first-ever English language version of their Evermore Integrated Office (EIOffice) product...

QRS Diagnostic Releases Office Medic™
5.0 Software

QRS Diagnostic Releases Office Medic™
5.0 Software 07/20/2004 02:44 AM
New Medical Device Software Platform Delivers Advanced, Real-time Diagnostic Testing [PRWEB Jul 20, 2004]

Office 2003 Research Service Software
Development Kit (SDK)

Office 2003 Research Service Software
Development Kit (SDK) 11/10/2003 11:33 PM
With the Microsoft Office 2003 Research Service SDK, you can build information services that provide users with robust information sources and actions that make it possible for users to manage information in powerful ways—all from within their Office applications. You can also easily adapt existing information stores to provide content to Office applications, so that users can take advantage of information services when authoring documents, presentations, and so on.

Microsoft Pulls Nazi Symbol From Office
Software

Microsoft Pulls Nazi Symbol From Office
Software 12/13/2003 07:07 AM
New York Post Dec 13 2003 6:21AM ET

Microsoft to Share Office Software Code
(Reuters)

Microsoft to Share Office Software Code
(Reuters) 09/19/2004 05:48 PM
Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Sunday that it would share the underlying software code for its Office program as part of its efforts to make governments more confident in the security and compatibility of the world's largest software maker's products.

REAL Software offers Office Power Pack
Vol. 1

REAL Software offers Office Power Pack
Vol. 1 07/14/2004 08:33 AM
REALbasic developer REAL Software Inc. on Wednesday released Office Power Pack Volume 1, a collection of five applications designed to enhanced Microsoft Office v.X and Office 2004 for the Macintosh. The applications include Address Book Merge, which merges Mac OS X Address Book contacts with Microsoft Word to help print mailing labels and envelopes; Address Book Export, which exports Address Book contact information into Excel; Quicken Data Mover, which loads Quicken QIF files into Excel; Fax Cover Sheet Maker, which generates fax cover sheets in Word using Address Book data; and Invoice Maker, which creates professional service invoices in Microsoft Word. The kit costs US$49.95.

Office 2003 Smart Document Software
Development Kit (SDK)

Office 2003 Smart Document Software
Development Kit (SDK) 11/10/2003 11:33 PM
This download is for developers who are interested in developing custom solutions that use the smart document functionality introduced in the Microsoft® Office System. The Microsoft® Office 2003 Smart Document SDK contains documentation, tools, sample code, and XML schemas.

Jataayu Software (P) Ltd., expands into
USA with Bellevue, Washington Office

Jataayu Software (P) Ltd., expands into
USA with Bellevue, Washington Office 07/28/2004 02:41 AM
Jataayu has opened its new office in Bellevue, Washington.The Bellevue office would provide better access and customer support to the current and potential customers in the Americas.The USA office is Jataayu's third office opening in the last eight months. In addition to its Head Quarters in Bangalore, India - Jataayu has offices in UK, Singapore, Korea and India (Delhi, Mumbai). [PRWEB Jul 28, 2004]

Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda
Poster Pages--Chinese Space Program

Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda
Poster Pages--Chinese Space Program 08/05/2004 09:06 PM
a new section with images relating to China's space program

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Microsoft to share Office software
source code with governments (AFP)

Microsoft to share Office software
source code with governments (AFP) 09/20/2004 04:48 AM
AFP - Microsoft Corporation said it would share the source code of its Microsoft Office desktop software with more than 60 governments, including China and Russia.
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