Filed under: Internet. , Office. , Web. Over the past few years, Microsoft has had to contend with increasing competition from free, web-based office suites such as Google Docs. and Zoho Office. And when I say contend, I mean, maybe start taking notice of. There's no doubt that MS Office is still the 800 pound gorilla in the word processing, spreadsheet, and database field. But free competitors including those online applications and desktop solutions including IBM's Lotus Symphony. and and the open source OpenOffice.org. can't make the folks in Redmond very happy. So it probably shouldn't be that surprising that Microsoft Online VP Ron Markezich referred to Zoho, Google Docs, and Zimbra. as services that offer " fake Office capabilities. " What was a bit surprising is how well the Zoho team took that idea and ran with it. Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu wrote a blog post. about the topic yesterday. And today the company launched FakeOffice.org. , a site that compares Zoho's application suite
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