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MS: Office 10 to be a 'major' release
News After releasing Beta 1 of Office 10 to testers at the beginning of August, Microsoft is finally ready to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding its Office 2000 successor. On Tuesday, company officials agreed to go public with some of the features and...
[August 30, 2000, 9:13]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
News A Microsoft executive has criticised the open source productivity application OpenOffice.org (OOo), claiming that it is far behind Microsoft Office in terms of functionality. Essentially, OpenOffice is fine if you have very limited needs because it...
[March 8, 2006, 9:10]
10 new Office 2007 interface elements (and what they're really called)
White Papers Office 2007's redesigned interface includes a number of brand-new elements, and more than a few users are scratching their heads over the purpose of various tools, how they're used, and even what they're called.
[June 7, 2007, 6:49]
10 things you should know about Office 2007 compatibility issues
White Papers Microsoft Office 2007 provides a lot of new features and functionality, but what about compatibility? These 10 tips will help you deal with compatibility concerns when you upgrade to the latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
[June 7, 2007, 7:03]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback 10 years of additional bombast and silly entertainment features have brought us an office mess, incompatibilities, vendor lock-in and most of all - lower productivity. AHEAD is just wishful thinking, AWAY is more to the point.
[March 9, 2006, 12:17]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback Open office is really good. It may lack some features found in M$ Office but I am sure it will catch up. Finally, I can work on a office suite that does not save my file in propritary formats. GNU/Linux, KDE, GNOME and Open Office are the best...
[March 17, 2006, 0:13]
Microsoft cuts two Office 10 features
News Microsoft has decided to drop two features from its next-generation Office suite for Windows, which is due to ship next year. After evaluating feedback from users of Beta 2 of Office 10, Microsoft has made a decision not to include the Office...
[December 11, 2000, 8:18]
Microsoft delivers Office 10 beta early
News As unusual as it sounds, that is exactly what the company is doing with Office 10, the next version of Office for Windows. Microsoft had anticipated it would deliver beta 2 of Office 10 by mid-November.
[October 25, 2000, 7:56]
Beta of MS Office 10 on the way
News On the heels of showing off a preview of Office 2001 for the Macintosh, Microsoft has begun soliciting beta testers for Office 10, the next release of the Windows version of its flagship desktop office suite.
[May 16, 2000, 9:52]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top 10 Tips for Word 2007 (Level 100)
White Papers Microsoft Office Word 2007 is a powerful authoring program that is part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. This webcast will show the new results-oriented interface in Word 2007 and the tools in Word 2007 that help to create professional-looking...
[October 5, 2007, 1:00]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top 10 Tips for Excel 2007 (Level 100)
White Papers Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a powerful tool that one can use to create and format spreadsheets. More significantly, Excel 2007 enables a person to analyze and share information, so one can make more informed decisions.
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
10+ ways to train your users on Office 2007 for free
White Papers Buried deep within the sitemap of Microsoft.com are lots of options for training your users on Office 2007. Clippit, users have been quick to shrug off Microsoft help, and IT has had to reinvent the Office Fundamentals Training Wheel.
[March 24, 2009, 14:27]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: So That's How!: 10 Tips to Get You Started With the 2007 Office System (Level 100)
White Papers This webcast explains10 tips to get you started with the 2007 office system.
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback Oh yeah, if M$ Office is so good, why it has security issues, crashes your system, hasnīt got some featuresand includes "scumware"? OpenOffice.org is just one of the greatest open-source projects in the world and a much better program tham M$ Office!
[March 9, 2006, 14:35]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback If this is true (which I dispute) maybe OOo should be issued to the vast number of people still using Office 9X versions. Maybe this was a hint from the M$ marketeers that we should go after these users as conversion targets.
[March 9, 2006, 7:58]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback I've been using OOo for about the last three years now, both at home, and have implimented it for my employees at the office. After years of MS Office failure to support previous versions of it's own .DOC format, after countless hours of migraine...
[March 16, 2006, 0:43]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback I find that I neither use nor want 95% of the 'features' in most MS Office products, so if there's somethingout there that gives me just the 5% I need then fantastic! And if MS think that Word is 'collaborative' I have just one word.wiki'
[March 8, 2006, 14:09]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback Regarding Tom's comment on Numbering and Styles, these do work very well in Open Office but it did take me a little while to figure out. I wouldn't go back to anything else, I have MS Office sitting on my machine but have never been tempted to use...
[March 17, 2006, 11:23]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback I dropped MS Office for OpenOffice three years ago. It's not like I haven't use MS Office, I have used nearly all versions since the mid-1980's. The functionality, stability and ease of use beat MS Office.
[March 8, 2006, 18:30]
Microsoft: Office '10 years ahead' of OpenOffice
Talkback Open Office doesn't do everything that MS office does but for most users that isn't a problem. Yes open office isn't perfect and it does have bugs in it, but no more than MS office has, although microsoft like to call these bugs undocumented...
[March 23, 2006, 20:07]
