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Office 2010 Beta: a first look review
Reviews Microsoft realised that a productivity suite needed collaboration tools, and did a lot of good work adding them to the new version of Office. Hackers are increasingly targeting applications rather than the underlying OS, and the Office team is...
[November 18, 2009, 17:00]
How to ensure collaboration really works
Articles But while productivity savings can be hard to measure, Frank Modruson, chief information officer at consultancy Accenture, says it is sometimes possible to "defer costs into other areas, which means the hard dollar benefit will pay for any...
[November 16, 2009, 11:07]
OpenOffice.org
Downloads This office productivity suite for Mac OS X includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to that of other office suites.
[October 29, 2009, 3:06]
Office Web Apps Technical Preview: a First Look review
Reviews Collaboration has always been a big problem with desktop productivity tools. But collaboration is what users want, and it's what they got with the first online productivity tools. To start with there's only support for three of the promised Office...
[September 24, 2009, 14:56]
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 Version Comparison White Paper
White Papers The Microsoft Office suites of productivity applications give information workers the tools they need to create compelling and powerful documents and solutions. With each new release of the Microsoft Office system, Microsoft has continued to expand...
[September 24, 2009, 1:22]
IBM pushes into Africa with Ubuntu alliance
News IBM and Canonical have released a software package for Linux netbooks and thin clients, in a bid to push IBM's office productivity suite in emerging markets such as Africa. The IBM Client for Smart Work package, announced on Wednesday, includes...
[September 23, 2009, 16:52]
IBM offers Lotus with extra widgets
News Users can easily drag and drop widgets directly into Lotus Symphony, distinguishing it from static office productivity tools such as Microsoft Word," said IBM in a statement. IBM on Friday announced a new version of its Lotus Symphony office suite...
[September 11, 2009, 17:15]
Light cloud signals change of climate for IT
Comment Google offers people the benefits of universal accessibility through services such as Google Docs and Gmail, while Microsoft has developed its Business Productivity Online Suite. As office walls grow ever more fluid and more work is done on the...
[September 8, 2009, 15:31]
HP t5730w Thin Client review
Reviews We found that the standard Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection from the thin client to a server-based Windows desktop was fine for office productivity software, but did not provide two-way audio for VoIP applications.
[September 3, 2009, 16:19]
OpenOffice.org
Downloads The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of...
[August 31, 2009, 12:05]
Novell Case Study: Chicago Mercantile Exchange
White Papers The Merc has several dozen servers, networked with Tandem and IBM mainframes, that operate trading floor wallboards, facilitate office productivity and communications, connect to other markets, and enable electronic trading.
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
Microsoft, Nokia in mobile Office alliance
News With the next version of Office, Microsoft is trying to expand its desktop hold on the productivity market into one that spans the PC, web and phone, and this deal is seen as a significant move in that last category.
[August 12, 2009, 9:53]
Embarcadero's new IDE enhancements - a sneaky peak
Blog Database tools player Embarcadero is currently showcasing ‘sneaky peaks’ of its RAD Studio 2010 IDE enhancements, which it hopes will up the ante in developer productivity. It’s not just Microsoft Office making waves with a 2010 release product...
[August 5, 2009, 8:56]
IT Services Firm Helps University Improve Communication, Cut Costs With New Solution
White Papers This growing solution has streamlined and enhanced communications for employees and increased their productivity. In late 2007, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Enabling Technologies helped the school implement a unified communications solution...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Partner Develops Document Management Solutions, Offers Fast Return on Investment
White Papers The company developed several Office Business Applications (OBAs) - including KnowledgeLake Imaging for SharePoint, KnowledgeLake Connect, and KnowledgeLake Capture - that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to improve enterprise...
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
Supply Chain Visibility Key to Business Agility for Ambitious Dairy Company
White Papers Disparate information systems and lack of visibility across the business were impeding the company's growth and productivity. It deployed Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft SQL 2005.
[July 25, 2009, 1:18]
BT to resell Microsoft's business cloud suite
News The Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) will be available to BT's business customers as a fully hosted managed service, including features such as performance management, maintenance and software upgrades.
[July 20, 2009, 16:55]
End of an era for Office 2000
News Support for Microsoft Office 2000 finally ended on Tuesday, 10 years after the productivity suite was launched. Office 2000 had mainstream support until mid-2004, when its extended support period began.
[July 14, 2009, 16:35]
Adobe begins public testing of ColdFusion 9
News The new release, issued on Monday, is intended to help developers improve productivity while better integrating with Adobe's own technologies and Microsoft Office applications such as SharePoint, Excel, Word and PowerPoint, Adobe said.
[July 13, 2009, 16:07]
Office 2010 Technical Preview: screenshots II review
Reviews The underlying technology is the same one that will power the online Office applications — and it works in more than just Internet Explorer. The Office Backstage has different uses in different applications.
[July 13, 2009, 14:33]
