Google is awarded the mightiest of titles: it’s Word of the Decade!
I know there is a fondness for games among many readers, so here is today’s. What is your No. 1 word of the last decade? Might it be “divorce” or “Warcraft” or perhaps even “pants,” “Rush,” or “Miley”?
This question is especially timely today because the American Dialect Society, which studies the stumbling attempts of English to take hold in America, has declared that the one most important, significant, rousingly symbolic word of the last decade is “Google.”
According to CBSNews.com, “Google” beat out such words of our bygone times as “blog.” It even beat out “war on terror,” which hardly seems like a word, but who am I to question the keepers of the spoken flame? (Press release containing the full list (PDF))
“It’s hard to imagine life before we were Googling,” American Dialect Society executive councilmember Ben Zimmer told CBSNews.com.
Might I take a moment to quibble with Zimmer’s lexicon? I am sure you can most definitely imagine life before you dedicated your waking hours and, indeed, your name, to the Church of Searchboxology.
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Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word
A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of its premier products, in its current form due to patent infringement.
Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that “prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML,” according to a statement released by attorneys for the plantiff, i4i.
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Microsoft did not immediately reply to request for comment but said in a statement that it planned to appeal the verdict.
Toronto-based i4i sued Microsoft in March 2007 alleging that the Redmond,Wash.-based software giant violated its 1998 patent (No. 5,787,449) for a document system that eliminated the need for manually embedded formatting codes.
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OffiSync Brings Google Docs Into Microsoft Word
OffiSync, founded by former Microsoft Office marketing manager Oudi Antebi, now VP of marketing and strategy at business intelligence company Panorama Software, combines Office and Google Docs with a new toolbar in Office that lets customers OPEN and save Google Apps documents and collaborate on them or define collaborators from within Microsoft Word.
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There are any number of reasons people might be slow to jump on the Google Apps bandwagon, including one big one in particular: It s just not Microsoft Office.
Most consumers and companies already have Office installed, and many companies have enterprise licenses that entitle them to free upgrades and additional perks. But Google Apps has fewer features than Office, and it could take a bit of training to turn newbie employees into power users.
Of course, the fact that it isn t Microsoft Office is also a reason Google Apps has gotten traction. Google Apps brings a few important features that Microsoft Office doesn t yet offer, including free Web-based editing and file storage, real-time and asynchronous collaboration, and more granular file search than is available in Windows.
Antebi says he now hears a familiar refrain when he talks to people about OffiSync: I have never used Google Docs because I didn t want it to replace Office, but now I might use it because it just makes Office better.
The 8-MB download plug-in also allows users to manage their Google Docs file libraries as if they were local file stores. Users can search from within the OPEN and save document dialogues built into OffiSync and send e-mail notifications to collaborators. Antebi plans to offer two versions, one for individuals and a paid version for enterprises that includes management and deployment features.
