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Microsoft Takes On Google Docs, For A Fee
April 21, 2008
on Office Software
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Bestofmedia Team
Microsoft announces online version of Office to compete with Google Docs. Except it's not free. Read more
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Open Office XML Expected To Be Announced ISO Standard This Week
March 31, 2008
on Business & Law
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Wolfgang Gruener
Chicago (IL) - Rumors about a possibly "shocking" announcement by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) scheduled for this week began spreading across the Internet on Monday: Open Office XML format could finally reach the end of its standards odyssey and become a global industry standard. Read more
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Photoshop Now Online: The Best Spin On An Old Idea So Far
March 27, 2008
on Desktop Computers
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Wolfgang Gruener
San Jose (CA) - Adobe has launched a Beta version of Photoshop Express, a new online photo editing, storing and sharing service that is offered as a free version with limited room for pictures. Read more
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Google's Visualization API Goes After Microsoft's Cash-cow
March 19, 2008
on Office Software
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Theo Valich
At first sight, Google's brand new Read more
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Safari 3.1 Adds HTML 5 Audio and Video Tags
March 18, 2008
on Office Software
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Wolfgang Gruener
Cupertino (CA) - A new version of the Safari web browser for MacOS X and Windows platforms made its debut today. Read more
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Microsoft Licenses Flash Lite, Reader LE
March 17, 2008
on Mobility Miscellaneous
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Wolfgang Gruener
San Jose (CA) - Adobe announced late Sunday that Microsoft has licensed its Flash Player runtime for the Internet Explorer Mobile browser as well as Reader LE to display PDF documents on Windows Mobile-based phones. According to the announcement, both Read more
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Next-gen Windows OS Reportedly Set for 2010
March 14, 2008
on OS
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Mark Raby
Redmond (WA) - The seventh generation of Microsoft's operating system software is scheduled for a release in the year 2010. Read more
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Office Online Extensions Now Available As Free Beta
March 4, 2008
on Office Software
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Wolfgang Gruener
If you have been wondering how Microsoft expects you to use its Office suite in the future, here's your chance to have a look into the future. Office Live Workspace Beta went online today and you are invited to take a test drive free of charge. The big question will be: Is Office Live Workspace compelling enough to convince users to shell out extra money every year? Read more
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Adobe Illustrator's Affordable Rival
January 17, 2008
on Software Miscellaneous
by
Tony Celeste
Searching for an affordable alternative to Adobe Illustrator on Mac OS X? You may find one at Macworld in Dekorra Optics’ EazyDraw. Read more
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Microsoft Begins Shipping Office 2008 For Macs
January 15, 2008
on Software Miscellaneous
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Mark Raby
San Francisco (CA) - Mac Office 2008 has begun shipping, giving owners of Apple computers a crack at the latest version of Microsoft’s productivity suite. The announcement was made during Steve Jobs’s 2008 Macworld keynote. It is the first time that a Read more
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MS Access Falls Victim To Serious Flaw
December 13, 2007
on Office Software
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Mark Raby
Redmond (WA) - The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning about a newly discovered hack that could implant malicious software on a computer via Microsoft’s database software program. The US-CERT said it is "aware Read more
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Office 2007 Update Goes Live Early
December 12, 2007
on Office Software
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Mark Raby
Redmod (WA) - Microsoft this week released the first major update to Office 2007, even though it wasn’t expected to be available until next year. The update, titled Service Pack 1 (SP1), is the first of its kind for Microsoft’s latest productivity softwa Read more
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Microsoft Opens Office Live Workspace Beta
December 11, 2007
on Office Software
by
Computerworld
Microsoft rolled out a limited beta of its Live Office Workspace file-sharing and collaboration service today but will not open it to all comers for at least several weeks, and perhaps months. The service, which lets users post Microsoft Word, Excel an Read more
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Counterfeit Rate of Vista Half of XP
December 4, 2007
on Office Software
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Mark Raby
Pushing good news back into the Windows Vista scene, Microsoft claims that its next-generation operating system is more robust at preventing counterfeit attempts. Read more