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Office 12 to support PDF creation
News Microsoft announced on Sunday that Office 12 would support saving documents in PDF format. The company claimed to be receiving over 120,000 requests a month for such a function, and said that it would be available in all Office applications that...
[October 3, 2005, 15:15]
Office 12 to take on BI market
News With the next version of Office, Microsoft is making moves on the business intelligence market. As part of Office 12, Microsoft will add the ability to store and manage spreadsheets from a central server, allowing companies to create business rules...
[October 24, 2005, 14:55]
Office 12 pre-Beta 1: screenshot gallery review
Reviews Microsoft Office 12 pre-Beta 1 reveals dramatic changes to this productivity suite's interface and work flow. This abrupt shift from the drop-down menus of Office 2003 will make users less reliant on dialogue boxes but dependent on icons and...
[September 14, 2005, 9:05]
Office 12 to 'bring XML to the masses'
News Microsoft said Thursday that it will introduce new XML-based file formats for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications when the company launches its Office 12 software package next year. Company officials said the move to replace Microsoft's...
[June 2, 2005, 9:15]
Office 12 to 'bring XML to the masses'
Talkback Office 12 is a few years behind OpenOffice.org. A major difference is that OOo's formats are not proprietary, like MS Office 12's. StarOffice and OOo have had XML + zip formats for years. So has Koffice.
[June 2, 2005, 12:47]
First Office 12 beta launched
News Microsoft late on Wednesday released the first test version of Office 12, the next incarnation of its ubiquitous desktop suite. Microsoft is promising a final version of Office 12 for the second half of next year, around the same time as the...
[November 17, 2005, 14:00]
Collaboration takes centre stage for Office 12
News Recognising a shift in the way people work, Microsoft is putting more emphasis on collaboration in the next version of Office. The ability to handle VoIP technology is "one of the core features [Microsoft is] building into the next version of...
[May 17, 2005, 9:20]
Microsoft Office 12 pre-Beta 1 review
Reviews More than a year before the final product ships, a pre-beta version of Microsoft Office 12 is revealing radical interface changes and user paradigm shifts that recall the overly ambitious Microsoft Office 97 update.
[September 14, 2005, 8:55]
First Office 12 beta launched
Talkback Nobody cares - have you seen Open Office lately? There is absolutely no reason to move to Office 12, but there are plenty not to: cost, incompatibility with previous versions of Office, non-standards support.
[November 17, 2005, 17:12]
Peering into Office 12
News After months of remaining nearly mum about the next version of Office, Microsoft is slowly breaking the silence. The company is still not discussing the specifics on most of the features it will add with Office 12, but it is promising to have the...
[May 19, 2005, 13:35]
Inside Microsoft Office 12 (beta 1) review
Reviews Extreme changes are in store for Microsoft Office 12. Read more about the impending changes in our Office 12 preview, as well as in separate previews of Word 12, Excel 12, PowerPoint 12 and Outlook 12.
[November 18, 2005, 15:50]
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]
Locking, logging and linking: What's coming in Office 12
News Microsoft has been widely expected to introduce new server products in conjunction with Office 12. During a meeting at the summit, Capossela made the case that Office, with its familiar interface, is the best way to handle even sensitive documents.
[May 24, 2005, 15:11]
WordPerfect Office 12: a first look review
Reviews The latest version of Corel's productivity suite, WordPerfect Office 12, includes its staple word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications -- WordPerfect, Quattro Pro and Presentations, respectively -- but adds features aimed at...
[March 2, 2004, 7:35]
Microsoft Office 12 (beta 1) review
Reviews The final product is expected to ship late next year, but this initial beta version of Microsoft Office 12 reveals radical interface changes that recall the overly ambitious Office 97 update. Users of previous versions of Office will like the fact...
[November 18, 2005, 16:05]
WordPerfect Office 12 Small Business Edition review
Reviews For instance, it can mimic the keystrokes, menus and toolbars of Microsoft Office applications -- handy for converts. Our installation of WordPerfect Office 12 Small Business Edition took from 30 minutes to an hour -- overall, a smooth ride, aside...
[September 23, 2005, 10:00]
Locking, logging and linking: What's coming in Office 12
Talkback It is very intressting to read about this new version of Microsoft Office 12, who shall be released from the middle of next year (2006), they are very clever at Microsoft when this software gigant even shall release the next generation of Windows...
[June 2, 2005, 14:45]
First Office 12 beta imminent
News Microsoft has notified potential testers that it expects to release the first beta version of Office 12 in the next few weeks. You will be provided with access to the Office '12' Beta software, documentation and support within the next two to three...
[November 14, 2005, 10:55]
Office 12 to 'bring XML to the masses'
Talkback The trick is to understand that when Microsoft speaks about "XML" they mean to say: "Microsoft XML". As is the case with, per example: "Microsoft Kerberos", "Microsoft TCP/IP", "Microsoft IPX", "Microsoft DOS", "Microsoft HTML", "Microsoft Java...
[September 5, 2005, 21:27]
