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The latest version of the free, open-source LibreOffice suite has a more consistent look and feel across its constituent applications, and renders documents better. Check our gallery for the details. Read more
21 February, 2012 by Mary Branscombe
LibreOffice continues to improve, but it's still playing catch-up to Microsoft Office, and there's no sign of a vision that would make it a significant competitor on anything but price. Read more
21 February, 2012 by Mary Branscombe
MindManager 2012 for Windows allows users to share and collaborate on 'mind maps', and provides tools to help ensure that brainstorming sessions are productive. Read more
12 September, 2011 by Sandra Vogel
The latest version of Nuance's speech-to-text application is as accurate as ever, but adds the ability to use your iPhone as a microphone and allows you to dictate posts to Facebook and Twitter, among other new features. Read more
22 August, 2011 by Sandra Vogel
For a free product, Nitro PDF Reader 2.0 delivers a lot of functionality, and for the most part delivers it very well. Apart from the odd interface niggle and its restriction to the Windows platform, we have no hesitation in recommending it. Read more
13 July, 2011 by Charles McLellan
The latest crop of stable browsers from Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are the best the companies have ever produced. But how do they perform when tested under identical conditions? Read more
30 March, 2011 by Seth Rosenblatt
Firefox 4 is a worthy expression of Mozilla's ideals. The browser is competitively fast, sports a new minimalist look and includes some excellently executed features. Unfortunately, that describes most of Firefox's competition, too. Read more
23 March, 2011 by Seth Rosenblatt
IE9 is Microsoft's best version of its browser to date, although its lack of Windows XP support is unfortunate. Otherwise, it's fast, usable and standards-compliant. Read more
15 March, 2011 by Simon Bisson
Google's Chrome 10 delivers a full range of competitive features, and is among the most standards-compliant and fastest browsers available. Read more
10 March, 2011 by Seth Rosenblatt
Tableau Desktop puts sophisticated business intelligence tools in the hands of knowledge workers, allowing them to bring data alive in a variety of informative ways. Read more
14 February, 2011 by Simon Bisson
Microsoft has launched its first Office application for Apple's iOS. We find it well designed and easy to use. Read more
28 January, 2011 by Simon Bisson
This is a welcome update, but it's definitely a point release: unless you're looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office on financial or philosophical grounds, 3.3 may not be the version to make you switch. Read more
28 January, 2011 by Mary Branscombe
The first beta of Opera 11 is available for testing. Here's a quick tour of the key new features. Read more
23 November, 2010 by Seth Rosenblatt
Microsoft's Office for Mac 2011 is a worthy upgrade offering new templates and visual styles, better ways of editing multimedia content and easier methods of collaboration. The ability to work from anywhere with the new Web Apps is a big draw if your job requires that kind of flexibility. Read more
30 September, 2010 by Jason Parker
Want to be a mobile professional who's potentially productive 24/7? There are apps that can help with that. Here are 10 of the best Read more
24 September, 2010 by Charles McLellan
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17 hours ago by Roberto_Store on Samsung Galaxy S III lined up for saleIs this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.
19 hours ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...
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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary
1 day ago by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe on Software with everythingseriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...
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Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...
2 days ago by apexwm on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux SHleG: Do you remember building a clockwork scorpion kit (I'm pretty sure I have a photo of it somewhere) — I think it was called something like...
2 days ago by songmaster on Software with everythingGood I love Yahoo! Their search engine is getting better than Google as of late. I find more of what I want on the first page, and usually within...
2 days ago by Chris Wortman via Facebook on Linux Mint 13 ramps up for KDE release openhgs has made the point for Windows 8 multiple monitors without realising it! With Windows 7 you have to switch the mouse and so your focus...
2 days ago by PatrickG on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptakeMozilla has threatened to stop supporting Linux. I guess that UBUNTU is going with another browser. I indicated that if Mozilla stops supporting...
2 days ago by Leslie Satenstein via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora LinuxMuch as I abhor Microsoft's licensing practices, this is almost certainly down to purchasing IT equipment via 3rd party consultants - you get the...
2 days ago by Andy Bolstridge via Facebook on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...
2 days ago by Jack Schofield on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake @Phil at Cloud4 What, Microsoft gets £1,200 per PC and £1,622 per server? Gosh, I'm amazed....
2 days ago by Jack Schofield on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT You guys have no idea what is going on at Autonomy. Autonomy could have been a much more profitable organization. The sales operations at Autonomy...
3 days ago by craigsc on HP cuts 27,000 staff as Autonomy chief Lynch leaves
How does this impact on dual or multi booting? Seems to me to more or less prohibit this, from Windows 8 anyway. Will Grub 2 recognise Windows 8,...
3 days ago by Moley on Windows 8 start-up speed forces USB boot workaround I don't understand why there cannot be a slight pause during the boot process so the user can press a key. Many operating systems do this, even if...
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