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Google's pricing is a big mark in its favor with businesses. The Google Apps suite, which includes word-processing, data-entry, spreadsheet, and presentation programs, has added features at a steady pace for several years, but the price of the software -- $50 a year for each business user -- has stayed the same. By contrast, Microsoft Office will cost $400 a year for each business user in 2013, although the Times notes that many companies pay half that with bulk discounts.Microsoft hasn't ignored the cloud-software trend, though. Last year it released Office 365, an o {keyword} nline version of its venerable software suite, which costs between $72 and $240 per year for each user, depending on how many features are needed. Julia White, a manager in Microsoft's business division, Office 365 is on track to be s] fastest-growing business, according to the Times, although the company hasn't released figures on usage. In late 2011 and early 2012 Microsoft's business divison made almost $24 billion -- but that revenue came almost entirely from conventional Office software that runs on computer {keyword} s located on companies' premises.Google announced this summer that more than five million businesses were using its Apps suite, although nearly all of those companies have ten or fewer employees. So big companies like Hoffman-La Roche aren't jumping to Google Apps en masse, although the Times notes that Google won 23 of the 42 large government contracts {keyword} for which it competed with Microsoft in 2012, compared with 10 for Microsoft.Neither company is boasting about its total number of enterprise users, and it would be inaccurate to suggest that Microsoft is hemorrhaging business customers. But as companies put more stock in online collaboration, Microsoft will have to find ways to make Office 365 more attractive -- or come up with another strategy to tempt businesses away from Google.For more tech news, follow Jeff on : .

Our American Dream: The Janitor Who Invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos
Richard Montañez worked as a janitor at the Frito-Lay Rancho Cucamonga plant in California since 1976, but that all changed when he decided Cheetos needed an extra kick.

Call it luck or a craving, but for Montañez it all began while eating a cup of corn.

“I see the corn man adding butter, cheese and to the corn and thought what if I add chile to a Cheeto?” He asked himself.

It was an idea that would make him a legend.

Richard ran to his mom’s kitchen, grabbed some spices and made a test, his friends and co-workers loved it, he called up the president of the company and said he had an idea for a new product - that was the easy part.

The difficult part was in the sell.



How would janitor with zero-to-no English skills take a simple idea and turn it into a Flamin' Hot product?

“I had two weeks to prepare a presentation for the company executives,” said Montañez.

So, he copied a marketing strategy from a book he found at the library, “I’m a little bit of an artist so I even designed the bags and put the Cheetos in it,” Montañez explained.

The president loved the idea and since then, the Flaming hot line of products was born, including Flamin' Hot Cheetos - which is Frito-Lay’s top selling snack.

Today, Montañez leads Multicultural Sales Community Promotions across PepsiCo’s North American divisions. He still can’t believe the huge door he opened when he took up a challenge from the co {keyword} mpany president to think outside the box.

“Many times, greatness will come in ridiculous forms, a ridiculous idea might be a billion dollar idea,” says Montañez, and it certainly was.

Flamin Hot Cheetos influenced future ethnic products and the first Frito-Lay Hispanic marketing team. Montañez also helped influence Hispanic products and marketing promotions for KFC and Taco Bell.



With his contagious enthusiasm, Montañez keeps fundamental message in mind: “Never let anyone tell you who you are. Be yourself!”

Growing up he didn’t even know he was poor until someone told him, “I had so much fun growing up that I never thought I lack of anything,” Montañez remembered.

Growing up in a small town in Ontario, California, his days consisted of walking through miles and miles of vineyards picking grapes with his family, and sharing the food table with six or seven families at the community kitchen.

As a child, his life expectations weren’t very high.

“No one ever taught me what was on the other side of the tracks,” Montañez said.

His dream, like the rest of his neighborhood friends, was to get a job at the town’s factory.

“No disrespect to anyone, but my dream was to drive the trash truck,” he said.

But even as a child, sparks of Montañez's entrepreneurial spirit were obvious.

“I was on the Latino side of the school during lunch time, but everyone on the non-Latino side was staring at me, it was because I was eating a burrito,” said Montañez, who saw this as an opportunity.

Three days later, he was selling burritos at his school for 25 cents a piece. He was on {keyword} ly seven years old, but he had realized the value of being different {keyword} .

“We’ve all been given an ability to do something great in this life,” he said.

But he couldn’t decipher what was his purpose in life and he dropped out of school.

“I regret it, but I didn’t understood the teachers and I felt they were holding me back,” Montañez said.

Without a high school diploma, he got a job as a janitor at the Frito-Lay Rancho Cucamonga plant in California.

Montañez remembers that fateful day when the president of the company sent a video message to his employees.

“He told us to act like an owner, I looked around and didn’t see a lot of reaction from my co-workers, but for me it was the opportunity to do something different,” said Montañez, whose life was about to change forever.



But where did Richard find all this courage? He said, it all stems back from growing up hungry.

“The antidote to fear is hunger. When you have hunger for a job position, knowledge or a new house, you go and get it and fear will never get a hold of you," said Montañez who lives in Rancho Cucamonga with his wife of more than 30 years, Judy Montañez. He is the father of three sons, and has four grandchildren. “Latinos who have made it like myself have a responsibility to open doors to younger generations and teach them that they can do it.”

Despite the success, he has been giving back to his community every day by providing college scholarships to young Latinos as well as food, clothing, school supplies and other services to people in need as part of Kits for Kids and Feed the Children.

Why?

"Because I can and it’s my responsibility, I know what it is to be hungry,” he said.

Across the United States, in all fields of endeavor, Latinos are working to uphold their place in American society. Fox News Latino is proud to present "Our American Dream," a series of snapshots and profiles of Latino success stories.

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The Wizards are still positive
* Good the players staying positive during negative times. * I of the way the team handled all of the negativity and the pixels thrown their way; it was a very tough onslaught – but the players and coaches remained steadfast and positive and upbeat. * What to date is the character of the team. They are serious, professional, hardworking and they really care about the {keyword} team, the fans and want to win. There is no blame, no finger pointing and no selfishness. We have good people in our locker room. They have remained posit {keyword} ive and are all coachable and are in it together. * I that the team isn’t down on themselves. They compete and play hard always. We don’t grade on effort, but work ethic and character are important to us for the rest of this season if we are to turn things around. * The group quite positive and committed to one another. Sounds like about the best attitude for a 3-20 team in NBA history.Kornheiser, though, does not appear satisfied with public assertions of positivity. At what point does the owner of the Washington Wizards do SOMETHING That indicates to the people in this city that he’s aware of what’s going on and is determined to make it better? Kornheiser asked. The only reasonable conclusion you can draw is that he doesn’t want to {keyword} spend the money on buying out these people who are not performing to the level that he wishes they were. This is a guy who, when he came to town and got involved with the Capitals, was incredibly enthusiastic, overspent on guys like Jaromir Jagr at peoples urging like me – I was completely wrong. But then he did, he found Ovechkin, he built something consequential, paid Ovechkin. You don’t get any sense of him even being here , no sense of him being in town. Read the blog. Just read the blog.

Redskins get back to work with uncertainty looming on several fronts
Based on how Griffin looked, I’d be surprised if he’s not back in the saddle at Philadelphia. We’ll see how things play out in this first practice today.Today also should yield some clarity regarding Will Montgomery’s status. Shanahan declined to discuss his MCL strain in any detail on Monday, and said, “We’ll talk about Will more on Wednesday.” The Redskins also will be monitoring the status of starting right tackle Tyler Polumbus, who suffered a concussion Sunday. Without Polumbus, their current options are Maurice Hurt, who has never played a regular season game at tackle, or rookie Tom Compton, who hasn’t dressed for a game this season. The Redskins didn’t make a move on Tuesday to bring in any help on the offensive line – even given the suspension of Jordan Black – but they could be forced to if Polumbus’ concussion symptoms linger.The team did, however, make an attempt to help their secondary, putting in a waiver claim for eight-year veteran Dimitri Patterson, whom Cleveland released Monday. But the Reds {keyword} kins lost out in their claim to Miami, who had a higher waiver priority based on their inferior record.Patterson had appeared in seven gam {keyword} es (starting four) for Cleveland this season. (He actually got his start in the NFL with the Redskins in 2005).The Redskins also released practice squad linebacker Kourtnei Brown two weeks after signing him, but they didn t immediately replac {keyword} e him.They entered Wednesday with both a vacant spot on the 53-man roster and an open spot on the practice squad.UPDATE 11:20 a.m.: The Redskins announced Wednesday morning that they have signed linebacker Vic So’oto to their 53-man roster, and guard Pat Boyle to their practice squad.