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Who Needs A Word Processor?
Talkback Word has about a squillion features which you pay for, and about 10 that you actually use. Personally, I've been doing most of my work in Wordpad now for quite some time, and very infrequently do I need to use Word itself.
[May 5, 2006, 19:41]
Who Needs A Word Processor?
Talkback Microsoft's announcement of their new anti-piracy campaign may drive even more end-users to the online office suites. The online office suites may not as robust as the Microsoft product, but may meet the needs of home users.
[April 26, 2006, 18:35]
Microsoft To Release ODF Translator For Word
News Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on three partners to develop the code that lets a user open and save word processor documents in two different formats. The plug-in will work with Microsoft's Word application...
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
Buzzword: A First Look At Adobe's New Word Processor review
Reviews Adobe has acquired Virtual Ubiquity's Buzzword, a web-based Flash word processor. But as slick (and free) as it is, in its current form Buzzword is not a word processor we'd recommend unreservedly. Of all the PC-compatible word processors available...
[October 2, 2007, 8:09]
Who Needs A Word Processor? review
Reviews So why bother with a purely online word processor at all? I am writing this column on Writely, a free word processor that runs completely in a Web browser. Writely is not the only online word processor, but it's one of the most well known, and it...
[April 26, 2006, 11:00]
Adobe Acquires Web Word-processor Buzzword
News The company on Monday is expected to announce that it has acquired an 11-person start-up, Virtual Ubiquity, that has built a free web word processor called "Buzzword". What sets Buzzword apart from other online word processors is the pagination; it...
[October 1, 2007, 8:58]
EBookGuard
Downloads The word processor in this system is just like Microsoft Word. Document can be viewed like a PDF format (page) or scroll format.Version 3.0 upgrades word processor. This program will encrypt your Microsoft Word, text files, Rich Text Format files...
[February 28, 2005, 11:16]
Rapid-Pi
Downloads Rapid-Pi is an add-on for your existing word processor application (like Microsoft Word), not a stand-alone program. This means that you will continue to use your favorite word processor, inserting Rapid-Pi equations into your document whenever you...
[September 2, 2007, 17:31]
WordPerfect Office 11 Standard review
Reviews Responding to feedback from its core user base, which includes the legal and government markets, Corel now lets you set WordPerfect (the word processor, not the entire suite) into Classic Mode (via the Tools/Settings menu).
[April 23, 2003, 13:58]
Apple IWork: A First Look review
Reviews Apple CEO Steve Jobs calls Pages 'a word processor with an incredible sense of style', thanks to a number of pre-built (and Apple-designed) templates that offer various layouts, from family newsletters to small-business ad brochures.
[January 12, 2005, 9:30]
Analyst: Lotus Notes 8 No Threat To Outlook
News The Microsoft Office suite bundles Outlook along with its popular word processor, Word, and allows the user to edit email messages with it. We've found that people are far less productive when they have to shuttle between applications, so we've put...
[September 21, 2007, 8:24]
Type And Travel: Web-based Word Processors review
Reviews Should you seek the security of a desktop companion to your online word processor, only ThinkFree offers both (although you could download the better, free OpenOffice instead). So which online word processor should you pick?
[November 28, 2006, 11:01]
WordPerfect Office X4 review
Reviews For instance, the WordPerfect word processor has nine menus atop the screen ranging from File to Help with small icons representing commonly used features, but there's no 'ribbon', as Microsoft dubs its tabbed, colourful Office 2007 toolbar.
[April 17, 2008, 14:25]
Microsoft On Trial: MS Witness Concedes DoJ Points
News If Microsoft has a right to integrate its browser into the operating system, couldn't the company integrate its market leading word processor into the operating system and make the same claim? If Microsoft's word processor made Corel Inc.s Word...
[January 20, 1999, 15:20]
Writely Beta review
Reviews On the other hand, the free online word processor ZohoWriter beta offers 12 fonts. If you can't afford a desktop word processor, we recommend the popular, free OpenOffice Writer. Nevertheless, we recommend that you pair Writely with a desktop Word...
[June 22, 2006, 11:05]
Software On The Cheap review
Reviews The most obvious choice for word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software is the free OpenOffice. There are plenty of niggles about OpenOffice's word processor: it can be slow, some features don't work perfectly, and it isn't quite as slick...
[May 29, 2003, 11:32]
Ability Office 2002 review
Reviews The suite contains a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a database -- the big three of office productivity. Ability Write, the suite's word processor, looks solid at first. It includes a host of features, including tables, in-document editing of...
[May 8, 2002, 15:41]
Bookeen Cybook review
Reviews If you were able to do this, the Cybook could easily double as a handy portable word processor. Powered by a Motorola MPC823e processor running at 66MHz the Cybook is not intended to fly through its allotted tasks.
[January 18, 2005, 15:15]
StarOffice 6.0 Beta review
Reviews For instance, you can't create a spreadsheet within a word processor document (as you can with Word and Excel); instead, you must drag and drop a copied section from Calc to Writer. It comes with a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc) and...
[February 12, 2002, 23:00]
Microsoft Creates New Office For The Mac
News In addition to the new version of Office, Microsoft is also updating its Virtual PC software, which allows Windows programs to run on a Mac, albeit more slowly because the software emulates the PC's x86 processor.
[January 7, 2004, 9:10]
