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Cheaper Microsoft Office - inevitable?
Comment The software giant announced on Tuesday that it will trim the price of Office XP Standard and Office XP Professional by about 15 per cent, with steeper cuts for standalone versions of the applications... [30 May 2003]
Will Microsoft win the Office platform game?
Comment Outlook 2003 is set to be called Office Outlook 2003 and the new version of Word will be Office Word 2003. Rather than promoting it as just another application in its... [06 Mar 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.04.07
Round-Up Not content with dominating the search market and reducing Microsoft's role to a bit player, the company last year launched free word-processing and spreadsheet applications to compete with... [20 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.08.05
Round-Up After feeling pleased at using the word "brobdingnagian" not once but twice in the same technology column, the Round-Up was also pleased to learn that, as part of the settlement, Richter and his company has agreed to pay... [12 Aug 2005]
The truth about software as a service
Comment For Google, applications mean office tools: calendars, spreadsheets, word processors and so on - a direct challenge to Microsoft's hugely popular Office products - but... [23 Jan 2008]
The Bloor Perspective: Programme management, car mobile ban and Office XML
Comment At Comdex, Microsoft has announced it will provide royalty free licences for the XML schemas that describe Word, Excel and InfoPath documents. The basic letter was produced in Word and... [23 Nov 2003]
John Lamb's week: Blackberry to put juice into GPRS
Comment Q-go CEO Berendt Metz is in the UK on Wednesday spreading the word about the Cybrarians. To ensure the word gets around about numedialab, Mitchell is holding a draw, open to those who come to the... [25 May 2001]
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft and users - 2002 as a turning point
Comment Many had come to doubt that desktop productivity suites could really be significantly improved for much longer and some even wondered how much value could really be attributed to commonplace functions like word processing. [17 Dec 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Freeing up software
Comment Sufficiently so that Open Office can read most Word documents and is able to write .doc files to suit software of various vintages. He further proposes that information such as file formats be made... [12 Jan 2004]
IT's slump, the StarOffice challenge and owning the technology vision.
Comment StarOffice is a set of office applications that includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database applications and, it runs on Solaris, Windows and Linux. Currently, StarOffice uses its... [13 Aug 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: IT's slump, the StarOffice challenge and owning the technology vision.
Comment StarOffice is a set of office applications that includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database applications and, it runs on Solaris, Windows and Linux. Currently, StarOffice uses its... [13 Aug 2001]
Microsoft still a collaboration lightweight
Comment It's tricky to change what people understand by the word 'Office', and it's hard for us to get across that we're not talking about Office applications, but the collaborative... [21 Jun 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Sun on Wall Street, Microsoft on desktop, and the lost dreams of free ISPs
Comment At the moment, despite most of their functionality being ignored, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint are the de facto desktop applications. Enter StarOffice, which reads MS Office... [25 Oct 1999]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up But don't take the Round-Up's word for it, take Bill's. This week, after 30-odd years at the helm of the company he founded with Paul Allen, Gates formally left Microsoft, driving back home like any... [27 Jun 2008]
The Bloor Perspective: Predictions for 2003
Comment Apple has come through the worst and it will continue to teach HP the real meaning of the word 'innovate'. OK so 'may' is a weasel word. Write to me next year if it is completely wrong, telling me how... [13 Jan 2003]
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