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China dictates purchase of local software
News The move, aimed at breaking the dominance of US-based Microsoft on desktop computers, will eliminate Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite from hundreds of thousands of Chinese government computers in a few years' time.
[August 18, 2003, 9:30]
StarOffice 6.0 beta review
Reviews Happily, StarOffice covers most of the office suite bases. If you're looking for a low-cost (as opposed to no-cost) suite that translates Microsoft's file formats more accurately, consider Corel's WordPerfect Office.
[February 12, 2002, 23:00]
Latest Lindows preview adds Click-N-Run software
News Lindows OS is ultimately aimed at providing an inexpensive non-Microsoft platform that can run popular Microsoft applications, such as the Office suite. The site currently lists applications like a word processor, spreadsheet creator and...
[April 10, 2002, 12:27]
Sun: Open source for the masses
News As of today, developers interested in viewing, tinkering with, and/or licensing the StarOffice desktop office suite or its component parts are free to download the code from www.openoffice.org. But the commercial version of Version 6 of the suite...
[October 13, 2000, 12:25]
Sun to push StarOffice for Apple's OS X
News However, ThinkFree sells a $50 Office suite using Java. X suite for Macintosh. My experience is that StarOffice is just not a widely popular productivity suite," said Technology Business Research analyst Tim Deal.
[July 29, 2002, 8:55]
New software turns Office into collaboration tool
News We don't have any decisions at this point," on whether XDocs will be sold separately as some other Office products, such as Visio, or will be bundled into the productivity suite, Bishop said. Microsoft expects to ship XDocs in mid 2003, about the...
[October 9, 2002, 7:55]
Office 2003: What's in it for you?
News The latest version of the Office suite of programs is to be positioned as the central base for businesses to build their own solutions Microsoft has confirmed that it will drop support for earlier Windows versions in its upcoming productivity suite
[March 10, 2003, 15:47]
Lotus founder preps open source Outlook alternative
News He is heading up a project to build a free, open-source equivalent of Microsoft Outlook, the set of email, calendar and contacts applications that comes with Microsoft's pervasive Office suite. Trying to replace Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes...
[October 23, 2002, 8:02]
MS vows to ramp Mac development
News The unit will concentrate on three areas of development: the Office suite of productivity applications; Internet Explorer; and the FrontPage Web authoring toolkit. Like its Windows 95 sibling, the suite will have tight integration with the Web and...
[January 8, 1997, 10:54]
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. Most new enhancements to Office 2003's installation process affect only large...
[March 10, 2003, 12:38]
Corel knocks Microsoft off HP desktops
News The Productivity Pack is a "productivity suite," similar to Microsoft's Office, that includes the WordPerfect word processing application and the Quattro Pro spreadsheet program. The retail version of the WordPerfect suite sells for about $100 less...
[August 27, 2002, 9:10]
Tube staff get huge discount on Office 2007
News In order to familiarise its staff with the new interface used by Office 2007, Tube Lines is taking advantage of Microsoft's Home Use Program — giving staff copies of the Office 2007 Professional suite for a fee of £17 to cover the cost of media...
[November 28, 2007, 16:43]
Windows software by any other name?
News But one source close to the company said that Microsoft will not re-brand the individual products comprising the Office 10 suite with the XP moniker. On the Office side, Microsoft has been wrestling with what to call Office 10, as it is using the...
[February 2, 2001, 16:00]
iWork rumours gain credence
News The name iWork may seem a natural for Apple, which already bills its iLife suite as being "like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life. The change, which is reflected on the company's Web site, follows reports on rumour sites that Apple plans...
[January 5, 2005, 11:25]
StarOffice 7.0 review
Reviews Don't let the price fool you; this is a fully fledged office suite. In our tests, the suite installed on a Windows XP system in 15 minutes without incident. Microsoft Office and WordPerfect Office users won't have much trouble mastering StarOffice...
[June 23, 2004, 10:15]
Microsoft has right to dictate standards; they're meaningless
Talkback the most common document format (same as MS Office is the most common office suite). I find it good (technically), popular (you cannot belive the MS Office suite will just disappear from the market in a day) and now also open and standarized.
[April 15, 2008, 12:57]
MS looks homeward with Mac Office
News While Office 2001 began trickling into the retail channel in late September, the Wednesday event will mark the date when the suite will be broadly available across the country. Kwong said Microsoft will aim the new version of the productivity suite...
[October 11, 2000, 12:54]
Streamline Outlook 2000 installs
News You can use the CIW to deploy the entire Office suite or an application or subset of applications in the suite. Since the most important application in the Office suite is Outlook 2000, I'll focus on how to deploy this application using the CIW.
[April 10, 2003, 12:17]
Microsoft opens up Office 2003 XML
News The move is designed to give companies better access to documents that are created using Office 2003, the latest edition of Microsoft's desktop application suite. Fully opening up and licensing the Office 2003 schemas creates the first crack in the...
[November 17, 2003, 16:20]
Demo 2000: Startups jostle for attention
News Among the 80-plus vendors due to attend the show in Indian Wells, California, will be ThinkFree.com, which will launch an applications portal and announce its first software product, ThinkFree Office -- a free productivity suite.
[February 8, 2000, 8:51]
