Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Microsoft Looks to Build Up Office Ecosystem. How do you build a third-party ecosystem around the Microsoft Office System? Invite about 600 of your closest system-integrator and software-vendor partners to a conference at company headquarters in early February to encourage them to develop more Office-based solutions. And that's exactly what Microsoft is doing. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] There has been a bit of a buzz going on over the past few days or so about this: MS Ofice as a platform, not just an app suite.  Applications are being built on top of Office, so it makes sense.   It also makes sense to envision a Microsoft Windows Business Edition, where the environment is Office, not the windows desktop.  It could be tailored for the increased security needed in a corporate environment.  It is just the flip side of Windows Media Center Edition. 10:02:20 AM    comment []  trackback []

NewsForge | Quick and easy slide shows for the Web NewsForge | Quick and easy slide shows for the Web - "It's easy to crank out a slide show, using OpenOffice.org Impress, that can be uploaded to your Web site. Impress also builds a basic start page, with a slide index, summary, and navigation buttons. Best of all, it's quick and there's no HTML programming needed. " 8:49:53 AM    comment []  trackback []

Legal Technology - Legal Web Watch: Beyond Blogs Legal Technology - Legal Web Watch: Beyond Blogs - "With so much attention focused on the explosive growth of blogs in 2004, other law-related Web sites arrived quietly. Following is a roundup of some useful, intriguing law-related sites that launched this year. " Reminding us that there is a lot more out there than the blogosphere... 8:48:19 AM    comment []  trackback []

Lesson runs top 100,000 in December So, roughly speaking, here's what we got: over 100,000 lesson runs from over 11,000 users.  This is from a total registered user base of just over 40,000.  That means that over 25% of registered users came to the site in December and looked at an average of 9 lessons.   A closer look shows about 10,500 current law students accessed 99,000 lessons.  There are about 33,000 current law students registered on the site, so usage is about 33%. Now let's move to CDs.  We have no way to determine exactly how many lessons are run from CD, but we do know how many CDs were shipped.  I'll double check, but I believe 50,000 is about right.  So we divide that by 3, roughly 16,500, times 9 lessons, for 148,500 lessons run on CD during December. Combine the 2 figures and you're looking at close to 250,000 lessons run by some 27,000 law students.  Not bad I'd say. 7:53:12 AM    comment []  trackback []