Sony CMD-MZ5 review
Reviews There is a lot of gaudy blue plastic around the outer rim into which are set various MS-related features like the MS slot itself, an ejection slider, headphone and line-in sockets. Since MS is a proprietary competitor to the open MMC and SD...
[July 24, 2001, 0:00]
ThinkFree Office 3 review
Reviews With its emphasis on interoperability with MS Office, it's no surprise that both the desktop and online versions of ThinkFree Office mimic Microsoft's look and feel. The toolbars and the icons vary slightly, but MS Office users will feel right at...
[December 5, 2005, 11:20]
Lotus Symphony 1.2 review
Reviews Another drawback for those looking to migrate from MS Office is macros. MS Office users shouldn't have too much trouble migrating, but might miss some features. The word processing application in Lotus Symphony has substantially fewer tools than...
[February 9, 2009, 10:32]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office review
Reviews MS DOC MS Office MS DOC MS DOC MS DOC MS DOC MS DOC, XLS, PPT; ODF; exports PDFs MS DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX; exports PDFs MS DOC, XLS, PPT; ODF; exports PDFs OpenOffice 2 is the free version of StarOffice.
[October 1, 2007, 16:21]
Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta): a first look review
Reviews As we all know, MS-DOS licenses subsequently earned Microsoft billions. Famously, back in 1980, when IBM was seeking an operating system for its PCs, Microsoft bought q-DOS (a.k.a 'Quick and Dirty Operating System') from developer Tim Paterson for...
[January 11, 2005, 12:10]
Photos: new Windows 7 notebooks review
Reviews Slots in-1 card reader (SD,MMC,MS,MS-Pro,XD) With Windows 7, Microsoft seems to have finally put right most of what was wrong with Vista, which now seems like an extended beta program for Redmond's latest desktop OS.
[October 22, 2009, 15:59]
Inside Intel's Sonoma review
Reviews Most of the new Pentium Ms have a 533MHz frontside bus (FSB), giving what Intel claims is a 33 percent increase in memory data transfer over the previous chip's 400MHz. After many months of delay, Intel's new 'Sonoma' portable processor and chipset...
[January 19, 2005, 8:40]
OpenOffice.org 1.1 review
Reviews Starting up OpenOffice has always been slow compared with MS Office, and although version 1.1.0 is much better in this respect -- mostly because it preloads when the computer first gets going -- speed remains an issue.
[October 20, 2003, 9:45]
Nitro PDF Professional 6 review
Reviews Nitro PDF Professional's user interface combines elements from MS Office 2007 and Adobe's Acrobat. If you haven't winced at the price of Acrobat, you're either a (very) committed Adobe customer or cost is no object to your business.
[July 16, 2009, 16:41]
Wacom PenPartner review
Reviews JustWrite Office adds a toolbar to the relevant MS-Office applications, notes are saved as part of the file, and recipients do not need to have the program installed to read the notes. In the box, you get the tablet itself, the pen, a CD containing...
[May 25, 2004, 13:00]
Dell Dimension 8100 review
Reviews The Dimension 8100 comes with either Windows 98 ME or 2000 Professional installed, with MS-Works 2000 as the bundled software package. First thing to notice about the Dimension 8100 is the new black and silver easy-access case, which replaces the...
[November 19, 2000, 23:00]
Windows 7 v Ubuntu 9.10: an illustrated guide review
Reviews With Windows, however, the updates all come from Microsoft and only apply to the OS and specific applications such as MS Office. It's free, includes most of the core features found in Microsoft Office and supports the same language and document...
[October 26, 2009, 13:34]
Acer TravelMate 6463WLMi review
Reviews This busy are is completed by a flash memory card reader that accepts Memory Stick (and MS Pro), MultiMedia Card, SD and xD card media. The TravelMate 6463WLMi is a sizeable notebook. It weighs a maximum of 3.12kg with an 8-cell main battery and a...
[March 21, 2007, 8:10]
Windows Server 2008 review
Reviews People familiar with Linux will see many similarities with the BASH scripts used to manage Linux systems; those more used to working with Windows and MS-DOS will see PowerShell scripts as a logical development from DOS batch files and Windows...
[February 27, 2008, 6:39]
Acer's Santa Rosa TravelMate notebooks review
Reviews For storage there's a massive 160GB shock-protected hard disk (80 and 120GB options are also available), an 8X DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive and a 5-in-1 flash card reader supporting SD, MMC, Memory Stick, MS PRO and xD media.
[May 15, 2007, 10:29]
Acer TravelMate 3022WTMi review
Reviews On the right-hand side you'll find a Type II PC Card slot with a 5-in-1 flash card reader (SD, MMC, Memory Stick, MS Pro, xD) beneath it, plus USB 2.0 and FireWire ports. Design Most passers-by in the ZDNet UK office who saw the TravelMate 3022WTMi...
[August 3, 2006, 10:20]
