Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing.

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Administrators can now download the tool from Google and move 200 users per hour from Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 to Google Apps, including e-mail, contact, and calendar data, said Chris Vander May, senior product manager for Google Apps. It will be available for Google Apps Premier Edition customers as well as Google Apps for Education customers.

Just as Microsoft is throwing resources into Bing and Internet search in hopes of denting Google’s enormous market share, Google is trying to do the same thing to Microsoft’s huge advantage in office productivity software. Over 25 million users are on Google Apps, according to the company, which sounds like a lot but is a fraction of the businesses still using Microsoft products.

Last year Google released a similar tool for letting administrators enable Google Apps but allowing their users to keep their Outlook clients.

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Google’s shopping spree continues. This time they’ve picked up a company called DocVerse, whose software will eventually allow seamless interoperability between Google Docs and Microsoft Office. That’s right, Microsoft… the call is coming from inside the house.

You can already store and share Office files through Google Docs, but DocVerse adds the functionality of letting users collaborate directly on Office documents. As the crowing Google Blog puts it:

DocVerse is a small, nimble team of talented developers who share our vision, and they’ve enabled true collaboration right within Microsoft Office. With DocVerse, people can begin to experience some of the benefits of web-based collaboration using the traditional Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint desktop applications.

Current DocVerse users won’t be affected, but you won’t be able to sign up for a new account until Google figures out exactly how they’re going to incorporate the company. Of course, Microsoft was moving Office to the cloud on their own anyway; it’s just that it’ll be a bit more crowded there than they’d thought. It’s official, though: even productivity software is a battleground now. [Google Blog via TechCrunch]

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We knew it wouldn’t be long after the official press release announcement that we’d see the release of BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express for all. For those waiting, you can now hit up the Research In Motion software site to get started. The new software for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Windows Small Business Server looks to fill the small and medium business section of BlackBerry smartphone software offering while not giving up the security and manageability offered by the BlackBerry Enterprise Server solution that people have come to know.

Visit the BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express download page and fill in the requested information. You will then be given an order number an an email sent to the email you provided. Shortly after, you will then recieve your download link via email to grab your version of BESX along with some great information and support articles to get you started.

• For More Information And Downloads Visit The BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express Site >>

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It’s not an OS update like we were hoping, but BlackBerry has taken the lid off its freeEnterprise Server Express software which syncs the smartphones to Microsoft Exchange and Windows Small Business Servers.

It’s a less-whizzy (ie, free) version of BES for small businesses or individuals who don’t want to fork out for the full service. It’ll still wirelessly synchronize email, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks, allow for edits of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and access files on the business network, which should be enough for the average user. Out in March.