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In an interview, Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop said that the browser-based editing capabilities are being developed in conjunction with the next version of Office, known as Office 14. Microsoft won’t say when that version will arrive, but Elop said that a technology preview of the browser-based products will come later this year and that a beta version will be released in 2009.

Microsoft will offer browser-based Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in two ways. For consumers, they will be offered via Microsoft’s Office Live Web site, while businesses will be able to offer browser-based Office capabilities through Microsoft’s SharePoint Server product.

The company has been pushed into this arena by Google, which has been offering its free Google Apps programs for some time. In competing with Google, Microsoft is touting the ability to use Microsoft’s familiar user interface, as well as the fact that all of the document’s characteristics are preserved.

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Almost 3 years ago, I landed to United Kingdom with great hope - but didn’t took long to vanish all my dream. However, I will talk about that later - some other time - lets talk about today’s story.

Today, I’ve received my official document from London Metropolitan University, comfirming that I’m rewarded with “Pass with Distinction” in my MSc in Information Systems Development (ISD). Great News!

I just want to thank some people directly involved with my achievement for last three years. Firstly, my parents, they always said, no matter whatever you have in your life, you need to study and reach your destination - don’t worry about money, don’t worry about us - just study. Thanks to my mother, father, brother, Jillur Hasan (last year of his MBBS), sister Ismat Ara Jahan(3rd year of her BDS - Bachelor in Dental Surgery).
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Russia’s Federal Anti-monopoly Service, FAS, has blocked a move by Google to purchase Begun, an advertising agency. The watch dog group claims they blocked the deal because Google did not provide them with enough information to allow FAS to access whether or not the deal would help or hurt competition.

Google’s bid on Begun was reportedly $140 million.

FAS, the Russian anti-monopoly watch dog, was stepped up its efforts ever since Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, declared that the service be more active. As FAS ratchets up its involvement in Russian commerce it could very well become one of the more powerful agencies in the country.
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Yahoo’s financial report for the Q3 is out and despite reporting a not so bad financial conditions contrary to what was being predicted the past couple of days, the company is still set to reduce its work force by an equivalent 10% reduction on its payroll. That percentage is roughly equivalent to around 1,500 Yahoo workers who are about to lose their job.

Getting into the details of Yahoo’s Q3 Financial Highlights. Net income for the company is pegged at $54.3 million or 4 cents per share with a total revenue of $1.79 billion. Yahoo’s reported earning excluding charges is posted at 9 cents per share which despite of attaining its estimates is still a couple of percentage down from last year’s accomplishment for the same period which was $151.3 million or 11 center per share for a total revenue of $1.77 billion.

Here is Jerry Yang’s Email to Yahoo! Employees:

From: Jerry Yang [mailto:jerry@yahoo-inc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:20 PM
To: all-worldwide@yahoo-inc.com
Subject: update

yahoos,

i feel it’s important for me to reach out to you after our earnings announcement, and before our all hands meeting tomorrow.
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According to ComputerWorld, today Google CEO Eric Schmidt has endorsed Barack Obama’s campaign to White House. No doubt, technology been the one of the most important factor in Obama’s campaign and He’s been an informal adviser to the Obama campaign on technology.

Eric Schmidt made it clear that his endorsement is his personal view, it won’t represent Google’s political view. However, same report also informed that according to the Wall Street Journal, as of August 31, Google employees had given $487,355 to Obama’s campaign and only $20,600 to McCain’s.

Earlier this year, Barack Obama visited Google Head Quarter and also agreed with Schmidt’s and Google’s official stand that the government should ensure network neutrality.

On Friday, Mozilla Foundation released early developer release of the mobile version of Firefox, for testing purposes only, intended to:

• get wider community feedback on our approach to the user experience
• engage Mozilla community teams, including localizers, add-on developers, and testers
• get feedback from Web developers

This first alpha release is available for the OS2008 (”Maemo”) software platforms that runs on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablets. Here is a download link to install Fennec to Nokia N810. Mozilla also released Fennec’s desktop PC version. All the versions can be downloaded from here.

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