Office 2010 Beta: a first look
Preview How does the first public beta of Microsoft's next productivity suite differ from the Technical Preview? We have a hands-on evaluation. [18 Nov 2009]
Office 2003 glitch keeps users from their files
News Microsoft posted a warning on Friday that some copy-protected files may now be inaccessible from Office 2003 [14 Dec 2009]
Spin the colour wheel
Blog My latest project is tidying up a Joomla! CMS web site that was built using Artiseer. This is (proprietary) software designed to easily generate templates for Drupal and Joomla! amongst others. It... [10 Dec 2009]
Google Apps get Group collaboration
News Business and educational users can now manage the collaboration features of Google Groups from within Google Apps [09 Dec 2009]
Adobe's Acrobat.com adds organiser, mobile app
News The company is improving its Acrobat service with a new organiser and a mobile app for the iPhone and BlackBerry that lets users access their files on the go [20 Nov 2009]
Photoshop Bloater
Blog I tried to edit an Adobe Photoshop file the other day. It had sparkling stars created using Layer Effects, so I couldn't use GIMP. I found out this is what you have to go through to get a trial... [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta released to the public
News Public availability of the test version was announced at PDC in Los Angeles. New features include a mechanism for connecting Outlook to social networks [19 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 Beta: screenshots 
Photo Microsoft has given the public beta of Office 2010 a subtle interface makeover. Check out our screenshot gallery to see whether it improves usability. [18 Nov 2009]
Office 2010 beta made available to developers
News The updated test version is now available to members of Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet developer programmes [17 Nov 2009]
Microsoft introduces Excel for supercomputers
News At the SC09 supercomputing conference, Microsoft released a test version of its Excel spreadsheet redesigned to run on powerful clusters of servers [17 Nov 2009]
Grappling Tectonic Decisions with Thinking Rock
Blog After reading Adrians blog post Mind mapping software as a lifecycle management tool, I thought about how much of a mess my life is. Not a bad mess, I hasten to add, but a diaphonous morass of... [16 Nov 2009]
Microsoft to let multiple pupils work from single PC
News The software maker is working on new option that will let will let several students work independently off a single PC, each with their own screen, mouse and keyboard [13 Nov 2009]
- Re Here we Go Again - Moley
- 20 years behind the times? - Yellowcave
Cloud helps Skype to 'business grade', says exec
News The cloud-computing revolution and consumers driving IT adoption provide an opportunity for VoIP player to shake off non-enterprise grade label, says a Skype Asia-Pacific exec [13 Nov 2009]
UK collaboration firm gets worldwide HP deal
News HP's new small-business desktop PCs will come with Huddle's cloud-based collaboration, project management and document-sharing tools [10 Nov 2009]
End of the line for Microsoft Office Accounting
News The software maker has announced it is ending the latest in a series of efforts to rival Intuit in the business-accounting software [02 Nov 2009]
Very handy PDF tool
Blog A friend of mine had to email a multi-page document that they had scanned in. Rather than send it as separate files, they were trying to create one PDF file to attach to the email. But Adobe... [26 Oct 2009]
Enterprising AirMagnet goes 802.11n
Blog AirMagnet, the wireless LAN infrastructure monitoring company bought earlier this year by Fluke, has announced today a version of its monitoring system specifically designed for 802.11n. The new... [26 Oct 2009]
Share(Point) The Developer Love
Blog We're currently at Microsoft's SharePoint 2009 conference in Las Vegas. With a new SharePoint release (and a new Office) in the offing, it's not surprising that there's a lot going on - after all... [21 Oct 2009]
Visual Studio 2010 release date confirmed
News Microsoft has announced it has reached the Beta 2 milestone for its collection of developer tools, and says it is simplifying the number of versions it sells [20 Oct 2009]
SharePoint and Office betas to arrive soon
News People will be able to test out the SharePoint 2010 document management platform and all the software in Office 2010 in November, Steve Ballmer has announced [20 Oct 2009]
I ate all the PyRoom!
Blog Ever hot on the stone cold trail of innovative software, I stumbled across WriteRoom the other day, a bare-bones pared-down text editor for the Mac. I like it. It appeals to my ascetic... [12 Oct 2009]
Microsoft hints at second low-cost Office option
News A close look at a Microsoft blog post appears to suggest the software maker is readying a lower-cost option for Office Home and Student productivity suite [12 Oct 2009]
Honey, I Shrunk The Flash Player
Blog There are two Adobes. One is the company that produces the design tools that give our image-saturated world its glossy look and feel. It’s the Adobe of Photoshop and InDesign, of Premiere and... [12 Oct 2009]
Microsoft completes code for Exchange 2010
News The email and communications server becomes the first of the 2010 wave of Office products to be finished [09 Oct 2009]
IBM takes on Google with LotusLive iNotes
News IBM's cloud-based email and calendar service is more than 10 percent cheaper than the rival Google Apps Premier [05 Oct 2009]
GroupMail Business Edition v5.2
Review If you need to manage an email newsletter and don't want to go with a subscription-based online solution, you should consider GroupMail. [29 Sep 2009]
IBM pushes into Africa with Ubuntu alliance
News Canonical and IBM have teamed up to provide businesses in emerging markets with an office suite that works on-premise and in the cloud [23 Sep 2009]
Microsoft to make case in Word injunction appeal
News The software maker is due to go before an appeals court to argue that an injunction banning it from selling Word should be lifted [23 Sep 2009]
- What happens if Microsoft loses appeal? - Fat Pop Do Wop
Corel Digital Studio 2010
Blog With its new £59 Digital Studio 2010 photo and video software, Corel is trying out multi-touch features that it will bring to professional graphics tools in the future. But the software also... [14 Sep 2009]
Microsoft tries to stave off Word sale ban
Blog Microsoft has filed an emergency motion with a US court in the hope of being allowed to continue selling Word in that country. Last Wednesday, Judge Leonard Davis of the US District Court for... [18 Aug 2009]
