Battle of the Document Cloud Apps: Google Docs, Apple iWorks…Which One Truly Reigns? Throughout the 1990s, 2000s, and today, Microsoft Word has served as the final word in applications designed to maximize the efficiency and output of both businesses and individual computer users regarding their documents. Attempts to unseat its status as the number-one program of its kind have been largely futile. Many an erstwhile competitor has been outdone by the thorough richness and ease of use inherent to Word and the other members of the Microsoft Office family, such as Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. Both the computing industry and
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The term cloud computing is new to many people. The basic concept of cloud computing has been revealed in 1960 when John Mccarthy predicted that “computation may someday be organized as public utility”. And now after about 50 years of those words we are about to see that prediction come true. It is estimated that by 2020 the majority of people and corporations will be using cloud computing exclusively. Cloud computing is expected to outnumber desktop computing in the next decade. There can’t be a complete change, but there will be a hybrid system with the majority of applications being
PETALING JAYA, Malaysia and ARMONK, N.Y., July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) today announced the development of Malaysia’s most advanced cloud computing animation center, bolstering the country’s fledging creative content industry. Addressing the rapid increase in creative content companies, both within and outside of MDeC and the increased demand for rendering services, MDeC’s animation cloud will provide centralized facilities and programs to help Malaysian animators, visual effects artists and multimedia students to bring their ideas to fruition in the digital content space. The new high performance cloud center supports multiple concurrent users, and is
