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
Google Wave: a First Look
Preview Google Wave is about to break. So what is Wave, and what does it actually do? We bypass the hype with a hands-on look at the Wave Developer Preview. [23 Sep 2009]
ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0
Review PDF Transformer 3.0 is fine for individuals with basic PDF-handling requirements, but it's underpowered for all but the most straightforward business tasks. [21 Sep 2009]
Screenshots: A peek at the Office Web Apps preview 
Photo Microsoft has released the first official test build of its Office Web Apps to a pre-approved, select group of users [21 Sep 2009]
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]
Adobe offers CinemaDNG format for raw video
News The company has released a beta version of a file format for higher-end video, plus a beta of Adobe Story for writing scripts [11 Sep 2009]
Nuance PDF Converter Professional 6
Review Nuance's PDF manipulation tool offers good functionality for businesses seeking a cheaper alternative to Adobe Acrobat, although the user interface needs work. [27 Aug 2009]
Hearing scheduled for Word injunction appeal
News A US appeals court has set a 23 September hearing to evaluate whether to uphold a ruling that would force Microsoft to stop selling Word in its current form [21 Aug 2009]
Google switches on Apps Script
News Enterprise users of Google's web-based office productivity suite can now add customised scripts to automate various business processes [20 Aug 2009]
Microsoft asks court to halt Word injunction
News The software maker has asked an appeals court to quickly hear an appeal of the order, which threatens to halt sales of Microsoft Word in its current form [19 Aug 2009]
- Interesting case - Tezzer
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]
A Not-so-Stupid Nerd Trick in Windows XP Pro
Blog or “How to Drive Someone Batty with Windows” Basically setting up a custom User Shell has been fairly well documented. It takes changes to 2 registry keys, one in HK_Current_User and the other... [14 Aug 2009]
Microsoft missing out on User Feedback 2.0
Blog I'm not quite sure Microsoft gets this customer-feedback-in-the-modern-age thing. After two Microsoft Office employees started an unofficial suggestion site, MakeOfficeBetter.com, we sought... [13 Aug 2009]
Next Office for Mac due by Christmas 2010
News Microsoft says it is working on a new version of its Mac Office product which will include a Mac version of Outlook, replacing Entourage [13 Aug 2009]
Killing Microsoft Word not our goal, says i4i
News The chairman of the company that won a ruling which could halt sales of Microsoft Word in its current form says its goal is to build products, not destroy a key part of Office [13 Aug 2009]
Adobe Creative Suite drops PowerPC Mac support
News The company has announced its decision to discontinue support for PowerPC-based Macs in its future releases of Creative Suite [13 Aug 2009]
Microsoft Wave has ups and downs
Blog Those of us who search for green shoots in Microsoft's garden have had some pleasant moments of late. Software coming out under the GPL, the recognition that 'none' is not an adequate answer to... [28 Jul 2009]
