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IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News Lotus Symphony, based around the open-source OpenOffice.org, has been available as a free beta download since September 2007, and the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation programs are already bundled... [09 Jun 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Brown said in a blog post: "Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to ISO/IEC 29500," recounting the process of testing a... [21 Apr 2008]
Google 'Gdrive' coming soon?
News Google has been releasing hosted email, word processing, spreadsheets, calendar and other programs that compete with Microsoft. Microsoft offers a hosted storage solution of its own,... [27 Nov 2007]
Foreign Office admits data breach
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has been found to have breached the Data Protection Act following an investigation. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the FCO after... [14 Nov 2007]
South Africa plumps for Open Documents
News ODF is a file format used for office documents such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. It is an international standard recognised by the ISO (International Organization for... [29 Oct 2007]
Redmond squaring up to Google's web apps
News Adobe, meanwhile, is set to announce it has acquired Virtual Ubiquity, a start-up that has built a web-based word processor, called Buzzword, using Adobe's Flash and AIR technologies. For Microsoft,... [01 Oct 2007]
Adobe buys web word processor
News The company is expected to announce it has acquired an 11-person start-up, called Virtual Ubiquity, that has built a free web word processor called Buzzword. What sets Buzzword apart from other online... [01 Oct 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News We have to run Office and we have to allow Word, RTF, PowerPoint and Excel files through. M is for Microsoft When recipients attempt to open the file, a message is displayed stating:... [26 Sep 2007]
Adobe: 'We're not making Office killer'
News Adobe is an investor in Virtual Ubiquity, a company that is writing a sophisticated online word processor built with Adobe's Flex development tools. Adobe has quashed rumours that it will create an... [21 Aug 2007]
Microsoft ponders its Office options
News Google, for its part, already offers Google Docs and Spreadsheets, a lightweight, web-based word processing and spreadsheet program, with the company also making moves to expand to presentation software. [12 Jul 2007]
Microsoft to expand document formats
News An initial translator for Word was released earlier this year, while those for PowerPoint and Excel are expected to be completed by the end of the year. The company is expected to announce it is sponsoring an open source... [21 May 2007]
Microsoft patches 'the class of 2007'
News The remaining zero-day vulnerabilities for which fixes are now available are in Internet Explorer and Word, Microsoft said. The Word flaw had also been used... [09 May 2007]
Office at risk from bug trio
News Word of the flaws comes on the day Microsoft issued five security bulletins as part of its monthly patch cycle. A trio of what appear to be new, yet-to-be-patched flaws in... [11 Apr 2007]
Woolies delves into home software
News The company has struck a deal with white label software developer Formjet to supply a range of seven home applications, including internet security, antivirus, word processing, photo editing, back-up and 'edutainment'... [28 Mar 2007]
Microsoft runs into Live trademark spat
News Microsoft said it views the word 'Live' as a descriptor, such as in the case of "AOL Live" and "Vodafone Live", and has indicated that stance to Office Live LLC... [26 Feb 2007]
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