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The office collaboration market is white-hot, with Microsoft, Google and Amazon preparing for a long drawn-out battle. But Microsoft is slowly, but surely, racing ahead of all its competitors. Nearly two months ago, Microsoft lifted the secret veil on Office 365 numbers letting the world know that they have 85 million monthly active users for their…
Companies don’t like to give you their numbers. They just don’t. We still don’t know how much money Microsoft makes from its infrastructure service – Azure – or how much money its cloud services make every quarter. Google still refuses to divulge YouTube’s revenue figures, and it has been more than a decade since they…
At first glance, Google Hire, Google’s new recruitment platform for enterprises, looks like yet another application started by Google. Building applications is not new to Google. They have built many successful applications, and shut down just as many, if not more. But Google Hire, which is developed by Bebop, a startup created by Diane Greene…
Microsoft announced another major client win for Office 365 yesterday by bringing on board AXA Group. The France-headquartered multinational insurance company has more than 166,000 employees worldwide and is one of the top three financial services firms in the world. It appears as if AXA has been using Azure and Office 365 for some time now,…
Microsoft has a lot riding on Skype. With the Redmond giant staying focused on the office collaboration market, meeting solutions such as messaging, video/voice calling and conferencing play a critical role in the workplace, and Skype is Microsoft’s solution to address that need. Microsoft announced several updates to Skype for Business in Office 365. These are…
To say that 2016 set the tone for the cloud computing industry would be an understatement. Any growth in 2017 – and we’re going to see a lot of it – will be solely the result of decisions made in 2016 and, to a lesser extent, 2015. But for Google, now a member of the…
Google announced a ton of updates to its office collaboration and productivity line-up, G Suite. With Microsoft literally running away with the market as Office 365 continues to score big clients, Google – and just about everyone else – has been watching Office commercial revenues grow at a mind-blowing pace over the past several quarters. See: Did Microsoft Just…
Google has finally figured out that Hangouts should ideally be used for business purposes. To this end, the company is giving Google Hangouts a complete overhaul to make it more like segment leader Slack – something Microsoft recently did with Microsoft Teams. But Google has quite a lot of advantages over Slack and even Microsoft….
It seems that Google inadvertently let the cat out of the bag on a new project it’s been working on, a videoconferencing tool very similar to Hangouts, but capable of handling more meeting members. Hangouts is not being replaced, from the looks of it. The new service, called ‘Meet by Hangouts’ seems to be geared…
One could be forgiven for assuming that a suite of cloud-based applications from Microsoft, such as Office 365, would naturally run better on their latest browser, Microsoft Edge, rather than any other browser. But is that actually true? Let’s take a peek at perspectives from various sources and see if we can arrive at a definite…
File hosting cloud applications provider Dropbox Inc. recently announced the early preview launch of Dropbox Paper, a collaborative tool similar to Google Docs, but with the ability to schedule and assign tasks to individual contributors. Dropbox Paper will also offer offline access via iOS and Android apps when they’re ready, and Paper is already available in…
Of all the cloud companies in the industry today, Alphabet’s Google is the one company that had the longest and strongest experience in managing large scale data center infrastructure. But alas, it was the last company to join the Infrastructure-as-a-Service race with its Google Compute Engine. Note: Cloud reviews for AWS, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle…
Google is the third big-brand smartphone maker to face the heat of device malfunctions after Samsung and Apple this year. Reports are now coming in about Google Pixel smartphones freezing, and the virtual navigation buttons disappearing for a few seconds at a time. Several users have taken to Google’s forum saying their Google Pixels are freezing and then…
In many ways, Apple was one big reason why Google developed and launched the Google Pixel line of smartphones. But I’m going to leave you to digest that thought while I sketch a background to that assertion. Google’s hardware efforts in the smartphone market had, until now, been part failure and part success. The failure came…
Everyone knows that Google is playing its Android 7.1.1 Nougat card close to its chest, not allowing any other smartphone OEM to get the latest versions of Android. Now, however, the Sony Xperia X could be the very first non-Google smartphone to get Android 7.1.1 Nougat – and the dev team at Sony is clearly super-excited…
