office

Office 11: What's new - and what's missing

News Microsoft has slated the next version of Office for a mid-2003 release, and plans to release the productivity suite to about 6,000 beta testers within Microsoft and another 6,000 external beta testers shortly.

22 October 2002, 8:16

Office 12 makeover takes on 'feature creep'

News For years, Microsoft has been trying to add features to Office without them getting in the way of people who already know their way around the software. The stakes are high: Office has long been one of the company's most profitable products.

21 September 2005, 11:10

Office 12 to ease lines of communication

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 voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology is "one of the core features Microsoft is building...

19 May 2005, 11:00

Home Office laptop 'sold on eBay'

News The Home Office is investigating the apparent sale of one of its laptops, along with an encrypted data disc, on eBay. Home Office disc underneath the keyboard. Underneath the keyboard in the laptop was a CD labelled 'Home Office: Private and

Tags: keyboard, laptop, disc, encrypted

29 February 2008, 9:06

Microsoft previews Office 2007 online

News Microsoft is trying to allow people to try out the next Office -- without the hassle of installing beta software or replacing their current version. The software maker late on Monday released a free, Web-based test version of the new Office.

27 June 2006, 10:14

High-end Windows and Office coming

News Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told analysts on Thursday that Microsoft is planning new, higher priced versions of both Windows and Office in the coming years as part of its effort to grow sales. Ballmer said on Thursday that the company will add both...

29 July 2005, 10:46

Adobe to launch Office rival?

News Adobe may launch its own office-application suite, taking it into direct competition with Microsoft. Though we have not yet announced any intentions to move into the office productivity-software market, considering that we have built this platform...

16 August 2007, 10:36

Microsoft: No Office on Linux 'at this time'

News Microsoft has no plans to tweak its Office productivity suite for Linux anytime soon, despite the growing popularity of open source on the desktop, according to a company executive. Speaking at the LinuxWorld conference in London on Wednesday, Nick...

6 October 2005, 10:24

Microsoft puts price tag on Office beta

News Microsoft plans next week to charge a nominal fee for Office 2007 Beta 2 downloads, in a move that runs counter to the practice held by most software companies. Consumers who download the 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 will be charged $1.50...

31 July 2006, 11:08

Adobe denies Office-rival rumours

News Adobe has quashed rumours that it will create an office productivity suite to rival Microsoft Office. He said that Adobe would focus primarily on providing its development platform, AIR, rather than creating online Office-style applications.

21 August 2007, 10:10

Microsoft to support PDF in Office 12

News Microsoft will enable people to publish documents in the Adobe PDF format with Office 12, a company product manager said on Saturday. Office 12, which is expected to be completed by the second half of 2006, will let end users take an Office...

4 October 2005, 11:14

Can Google beat the curse of the new office?

News And Sun Microsystems turned a historic mental health facility just a 10-minute drive south from Oracle into a major office park. Google is following in the high-tech footsteps of many Silicon Valley companies who came before, dreaming big and...

29 September 2005, 9:36

Microsoft reveals Office 2007 details

News Microsoft offered further details on the next version of Office on Wednesday, announcing plans for a new home version as well as new server-based products and a new high-end enterprise edition of the desktop suite.

16 February 2006, 10:30

Corel revamps office and graphics software

News Corel on Tuesday announced an updated version of WordPerfect Office, its rival to Microsoft's dominant Office suite. The new program, Corel WordPerfect Office X3, adds the ability to import and export its files to Adobe's Portable Document Format...

18 January 2006, 10:24

Apple offers money off Microsoft Office

News The 'Office Bonus' offer, which runs until the end of January next year, gives shoppers 50 per cent off Microsoft Office for Mac when they buy a new Apple desktop or laptop. Apple has quietly launched an offer to give Mac buyers money off Microsoft...

24 November 2005, 8:56