Productivity Suite
285 Stories
Comfort, trust give Office edge over Google
News Microsoft will only offer hosted productivity suite next year, but Office has user familiarity, trust and resources that Google may not match, say analysts.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Office, Social Networking, Google Inc., Social Networking Feature, Security, Microsoft Corp., Web Application, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Zoho: Cloud customization cheaper than on-premise
News Customization of cloud apps need not be costly and some companies can avoid customization altogether, says software-as-a-service player.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software engineering/development, Software, Red Hat Inc., CRM, McKinsey & Co., Singapore, Software, Cloud computing, API
Novell to support Microsoft Office documents
News Company joins project designed to bridge rival document formats.
Tags: Office suites, Open source
End of an era for Office 2000
News Support for Office 2000 expired Tuesday, 10 years after Steve Ballmer announced a Web-based version of the productivity suite.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Office suites, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, productivity suite, software-as-a-service, online application, Web, Microsoft Office, Office suites
OpenOffice patches file-processing flaws
News An update to the productivity suite, found on the Asus Eee and other Netbooks, has been issued to fix two problems that could let outsiders in.
Tags: Office suites, Notebooks and tablets, Security, Open source, Linux, OpenOffice, Acer Inc., OpenOffice.org, Arbitrary Code Execution, Flaw
Google Apps users to get OpenID authentication
News Search giant extends single log-in for access to a variety of sites to millions of users of the business and educational versions of Google Apps.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Authentication, Google Inc., Environment, productivity suite, blog, Google Apps, Authentication and encryption, board
Microsoft to acquire ProClarity
News Microsoft hopes to increase its presence in the business intelligence market with the acquisition.
Tags: Acquisitions
LinuxWorld China 2003 returns
News LinuxWorld China 2003 returns for the fourth year in Beijing.
Mobile hard drive carries Linux
News The drive, loaded with the open-source OS, can be plugged into the USB port of any computer to turn it into a Linux machine.
Microsoft sails through document standard vote
News Office Open XML, the default file format in Office 2007, was certified Thursday as a standard at Ecma International.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Open source
Review: Apple iWork
Insight Priced at US$79, iWork is Apple's successor to the venerable AppleWorks productivity suite. A look at how its features stack up against its competitors.
Microsoft's great XPectations
News Microsoft began shipping Office XP, probably the most important product the software giant will ship this year, but persuading businesses to upgrade may be difficult.
Microsoft offers cut-rate Windows
News A low-cost version of Windows XP finds a home in Thai government offices, and the software giant says it may make the software available to other governments.
Tags: Windows XP
Critical fixes for Windows, Office coming
News Microsoft plans to issue three security alerts next week, two for its operating system and one for its Office productivity suite.
Tags: PC security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, windows alerts
IBM takes on Microsoft with ODF-based Symphony
News IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, which could prove a challenge to Microsoft Office.
Tags: Windows Vista, Business applications, Open source, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., OpenDocument Format, Red Hat Inc., Ubuntu, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Office 2007
