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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 11 gains developer tools
News Microsoft unveiled on Monday a tool for customising Office 11 applications based on its Visual Studio programming environment. The new tool, code-named Visual Studio Tools for Office, exploits the data-sharing capabilities of XML (Extended Markup...
[December 10, 2002, 7:38]
Office 11 beta due next month
News Microsoft is expected to release a second test version of its Office desktop application software next month. The initial test release of Office 11 -- the code name for the product -- was shipped to about 12,000 testers in October.
[February 13, 2003, 10:16]
TechXNY: Microsoft to unveil Office 11 and Tablet PC plans
News Microsoft, looking to expand its desktop software monopoly into new areas, on Tuesday will announce plans for a new version of its cash cow, Office, and the launch of the first Tablet PC systems. Customers (say) their Office tools are fundamental...
[June 25, 2002, 15:47]
WordPerfect Office 11 Standard review
Reviews Even cooler: the WordPerfect Office 11 thesaurus comes from none other than the Oxford English Dictionary, giving Corel customers access to 40,000 words and definitions from one of the world's most venerated English reference books.
[April 23, 2003, 13:58]
Microsoft Office 11: Access denied
News The next version of Microsoft's Office software will run only on the latest versions of the company's operating systems, Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday. A representative acknowledged that Microsoft plans to offer the productivity suite, code-named...
[October 30, 2002, 8:00]
Corel pushes XML integration in new WordPerfect
News Canadian software maker Corel on Wednesday announced it will release the newest version of its flagship office suite, WordPerfect Office 11, in late April. Corel said it has redone Extensible Markup Language (XML) integration in WordPerfect Office...
[March 6, 2003, 9:33]
InfoPath adds complexity to Office
News Microsoft will next week release the first widely available beta of InfoPath, a new application for organising and sharing data that will be included in Office 11, but analysts say the learning curve will be steep.
[March 6, 2003, 13:13]
WordPerfect Office 12: a first look
Talkback There is an equivalent, Corel PARADOX, although I think its only available on the Professional edition and its the same version as what was included in WP Office 11. I am currenlty playing with the Trial edition of WordPerfect Office 11 (available...
[March 19, 2004, 8:52]
OpenOffice updated and globalised
News The organisation behind OpenOffice on Wednesday released a trial version of one of the first major updates to the free open-source office software. The package competes with Microsoft's dominant Office but can open and save files in Office formats.
[March 27, 2003, 11:21]
Microsoft announces XDocs details
News Last year, Microsoft unveiled XDocs as a planned addition to Office 11, the forthcoming update to the company's market-dominating, cash-cow productivity suite. Office 11 will rely heavily on Extensible Markup Language (XML), the lingua franca of...
[February 10, 2003, 13:28]
Microsoft's U-turn: ODF support and not OOXML?
Blog After all its efforts in support of OOXML, Microsoft has decided Office 2007 will handle ODF documents - and will never support the standardised version of its OOXML format, which it fought so hard for.
[May 22, 2008, 7:39]
Microsoft under fire for ODF glitch in Excel
News Microsoft has come under fire for spreadsheet interoperability issues in its latest release of Office 2007 SP2, but the company said it is an issue inherent in ODF (Open Document Format) 1.1. Last week, the software giant released the second...
[May 7, 2009, 11:22]
Study: Software sales to pick up soon
News Shipments of packaged software -- products like Microsoft's Office productivity tools and IBM's WebSphere application software -- are expected to grow in the 10 percent to 12 percent range annually by 2006, IDC said.
[October 3, 2002, 8:22]
New software turns Office into collaboration tool
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Wednesday is expected to unveil a new product intended to turn Office into a data-collection tool and boost sales of the desktop software. Microsoft plans to make XML the main data format for Office 11...
[October 9, 2002, 7:55]
Microsoft readies new Exchange
News Many of Exchange Server 2003's new features work best with Outlook 11, which is expected to be available with Exchange Server 2003 and the next version of Microsoft's desktop productivity suite, code-named Office 11.
[January 6, 2003, 16:05]
New Office beta to launch next week
News Microsoft plans to officially launch Office 2003 Beta 2 on Monday, a release that will include a public preview available to several hundred thousand beta testers and businesses, said sources. Prospective Office 2003 testers will find Microsoft has...
[March 5, 2003, 7:43]
New Apple has trouble emulating Windows
News In addition, the representative said the release is due at about the same time as the launch of Office 11, the next version of Office for the Mac. Earlier this month, Microsoft said it was working on Office 11 but would not comment on when it might...
[August 28, 2003, 10:50]
WordPerfect Office 12 review
Reviews More good news: users upgrading from WordPerfect Office 11 and earlier editions can install version 12 without first uninstalling their old copies, which wasn't the case with previous upgrades. WordPerfect Office 12 is still dreadful at importing...
[June 17, 2004, 9:40]
Microsoft launches tablet PC drive
News Microsoft, for example, released an update to Office XP that supports the Tablet PC software's handwriting and "inking" technologies. More sophisticated enhancements will come with Office 11 sometime next year.
[November 7, 2002, 16:01]
