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Office Professional 2003 Beta 2 review
Reviews But because Office 2003 relies on Windows Installer 2.0, you don't have to reboot the machine after the process is complete, as in earlier editions of the suite. Before you can try the Office 2003 beta, you need to get it onto your PC.
[March 10, 2003, 12:38]
Office 2010 Beta: screenshots review
Reviews Microsoft keeps refining Office's ribbon user interface. Microsoft's Office Web Apps are now available through SharePoint 2010, and finally make Word documents editable. Office 2010's Protected View is a sandbox that helps reduce the risk of...
[November 18, 2009, 17:00]
Office XP: introduction review
Reviews Released to the public at the beginning of June, Office XP comes in a variety of configurations, starting with the basic Office XP Standard -- which includes the new versions of Word 2002, Excel 2002, PowerPoint 2002 and Outlook 2002 -- through to...
[May 30, 2001, 0:00]
Office XP: enterprise features review
Reviews With smart installation, Office XP will also upgrade only those elements that are already on the target system, using the language settings present. System administrators who have suffered at the hands of VBA mail attachment viruses will be...
[May 30, 2001, 0:00]
Office 2003 Beta 2: an IT perspective review
Reviews The message from Microsoft's Beta 2 preview session held in San Francisco at the end of February is that Office 2003 (previously known as Office 11) will 'transform knowledge workers into information workers'.
[March 10, 2003, 8:21]
Office 11: a conceptual view review
Reviews With Office 11 still at a pre-public beta stage of development and not slated to ship for about eight months, Microsoft is starting to give briefings ‘at a conceptual level’ about what it plans will be its next major revenue stream.
[November 4, 2002, 11:51]
Office XP: productivity innovations review
Reviews Also new to Office XP is the Smart Tag, effectively a small prompt that, like the Task Pane, reacts to specific actions. If you're looking for an alternative to keyboard input, then Office XP has speech and handwriting recognition, although Outlook...
[May 30, 2001, 0:00]
Office 2008 for Mac: a first look review
Reviews Windows users are expecting to find the new Microsoft Office 2007 software in stores by the end of this month. Microsoft is calling the new set of software Office 2008 for Mac. As shown in these early screenshots from Microsoft, Office 2008 for Mac...
[January 11, 2007, 7:32]
Office 12 pre-Beta 1: screenshot gallery review
Reviews Microsoft Office 12 pre-Beta 1 reveals dramatic changes to this productivity suite's interface and work flow. This abrupt shift from the drop-down menus of Office 2003 will make users less reliant on dialogue boxes but dependent on icons and...
[September 14, 2005, 9:05]
Office 2010 Technical Preview: screenshots review
Reviews We installed Office 2010 in a virtualised VMware instance on top of Windows XP Service Pack 3. We could have installed the suite on top of the Release Candidate of Windows 7, but we wanted to see how Office 2010 would work without the latest...
[May 19, 2009, 14:08]
Office XP: product activation review
Reviews Whether you buy full boxed product, or an upgrade for your existing Office suite, you will be required to activate it, either by telephone or online, using the Product Identification (PID) number. If you don't register, then you'll only be allowed...
[May 30, 2001, 0:00]
Office XP: the competition review
Reviews Corel has just released WordPerfect Office 2002. Cross-compatibility is important when you're not the market leader, so WordPerfect Office 2002 programs can save in Word, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3 file formats, as well as HTML (with CSS support).
[May 30, 2001, 0:00]
Office 2003 Beta 2 review
Reviews Microsoft has released the public beta of Office 2003, the final version of which is due to ship later this year. ZDNet has been hard at work looking at Office 2003 Beta 2, so check out the reports below.
[March 10, 2003, 16:43]
Office XP: collaboration features review
Reviews For documents that require input and editing from a number of sources, Office XP's review and workflow tools are extremely useful. With Office XP versions that include FrontPage 2002, you also get SharePoint Team Services (formerly Tahoe), a...
[May 30, 2001, 0:00]
Office 2010 Beta: a first look review
Reviews Office 2010's Technical Preview has been around for a few months now. The Technical Preview introduced several new technologies designed to improve security in Office 2010. Microsoft realised that a productivity suite needed collaboration tools...
[November 18, 2009, 17:00]
Check Point Safe@Office 225 review
Reviews We tested the Safe@Office 225 which, as the name implies, is licensed for 25 users in total (10 for VPN remote access) and which has the ability to process up to 80Mbps through its firewall. These services can be enabled in minutes: the Safe@Office...
[October 27, 2004, 11:05]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office review
Reviews It's no secret that Microsoft Office dominates the productivity suite market, but that doesn't mean it's the only way to go. WordPerfect Office 12 Corel's WordPerfect Office 12 sports interface improvements and one-click PDF, HTML and XML publishing.
[October 5, 2005, 0:00]
Zoho Office Suite beta review
Reviews The programs within the Zoho Office Suite beta include the Zoho Writer word processor, Sheet for spreadsheets, Show (which is similar to PowerPoint) and the Virtual Office dashboard to tie everything together.
[October 30, 2006, 8:42]
WordPerfect Office 12 Small Business Edition review
Reviews For instance, it can mimic the keystrokes, menus and toolbars of Microsoft Office applications -- handy for converts. Our installation of WordPerfect Office 12 Small Business Edition took from 30 minutes to an hour -- overall, a smooth ride, aside...
[September 23, 2005, 10:00]
Inside Microsoft Office 2007 beta 2 (technical refresh) review
Reviews Microsoft is in the final stages of updating its Office suite of productivity software. After a series of delays, the new Office 2007 system is due to ship early next year, and some business components may be ready at the end of 2006.
[September 15, 2006, 14:15]
