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Office 365 hits the skies and Thunderbird goes rapid-release

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Office 365 hits the skies and Thunderbird goes rapid-release


Office 365 hits the skies and Thunderbird goes rapid-release

Posted: 03 Jul 2011 12:00 AM PDT

As we return from the long holiday weekend, presumably sunburned and slightly plumper, let's take a look at some of the biggest stories to hit the Download shores over the past week.

Office 365, Microsoft's answer to Google Docs, hit the market, and professionals and small businesses can use it to work from anywhere using familiar-feeling Web-enabled applications. Sure, we all like the idea of cloud-enabled collaboration, but are the subscription pricing tiers just a tad too high? You tell us.

In other news, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox's open-source e-mail sibling and Outlook alternative, jumped up to version 5, and we do mean jumped. It incorporated nearly 400 fixes and skipped "version 4" entirely.

On the mobile front, the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace finally got Angry Birds. While the game is sort of yesterday's news, it's still a big deal for the Windows Phone folks to have gained access, so we're just going to be happy for them. Also, Skype 2.0 has arrived for Android, and at long last, it gives Android users video calling--sort of. The functionality is only available on four devices.

That's it for this week. Happy peeling, folks!

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