office in comment and analysis
Office XP - the good news and the bad news
Comment Microsoft's Office XP hit the ground running today. Flash back to the launch of Office and Windows 2000. You can almost hear the Microsoft marketeers calling the debut of Office XP "low key". In fact, it launched at a go-karting track somewhere in... [31 May 2001]
Cheaper Microsoft Office - inevitable?
Comment Microsoft's decision to cut retail prices for some versions of its Office software is more a reaction to internal pressures than to outside competition, analysts said on Wednesday. The software giant announced on Tuesday that it will trim the price... [30 May 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Moving office
Comment Well, I have just moved office and have to report the angst was not palpable, and the need to keep business up and running did not involve prayers, incantations and other unnatural acts! Years ago moving office automatically meant a lot of IT grief. [11 Jul 2007]
Directors' Cut: IT and office politics
Comment Many people reading this will condemn my suggestions for playing office politics. But what is office politics? Scrawled across the top are comments like: "What are we doing on this? or worse still: "Just bringing this to your attention. [19 May 2000]
Unwired: The office of the future
Comment Which technologies and working styles will dominate the office of the future? What technology might we find in the future office? This morning I left my automated home, bound for my paperless office. On entering an office, your phone could... [15 Nov 2006]
Data Protection Act humbles Home Office
Comment Although 58-year-old Mr Robertson was too ill to be in the courtroom to hear it, he stood up like a modern-day David against the Goliath that is the Home Office. You may not have heard of Brian Reid Beetson Robertson, accountant (retired), from... [19 Nov 2001]
Pipe dream? Welcome to the converged office of the near future
Comment Call it utopianism or just plain hype but plenty of parties have been outlining their vision of the office of the future for some time. This would allow staff coming into the office to pick up a phone from reception that would then be tailored for... [14 May 2003]
Will Microsoft win the Office platform game?
Comment Microsoft is about to reposition Office. Outlook 2003 is set to be called Office Outlook 2003 and the new version of Word will be Office Word 2003. As one analyst put it, Office will become a "horizontal productivity program", and will enable the... [06 Mar 2003]
Paperless office - ages-old myth or valuable way forward?
Comment Take a look at any work environment in 2006 and the very idea of that 1980s' dream, the 'paperless office', seems like a sick joke. And yet, according to the same company, only 58 per cent of IT directors monitor or manage office printing costs... [26 Jun 2006]
The Bloor Perspective: Programme management, car mobile ban and Office XML
Comment Office schemas* When Office 2003 was announced it included support for XML as a way of storing documents. Using the XML schemas, it becomes possible to integrate Office documents into business processes in a way that was not really possible before... [23 Nov 2003]
Leader: Do office gossips undermine compliance?
Leader Sometimes being an IT director - or any senior exec - must feel a lot like banging your head against a brick wall. And the biggest cause of such resultant headaches is almost undoubtedly users - your colleagues who insist on undermining your best... [12 Nov 2004]
Music piracy fight - coming to an office near you
Comment The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has written a threatening letter to 300 companies whose employees are downloading copyrighted music files, promising legal action if they do not crack down on the practice. [18 Mar 2003]
Housing benefit? Tailored high-tech office space comes to London
Comment Against that backdrop, the property arm of one company - LMS, that's London Merchant Services - is trying to tempt businesses to redeveloped facilities in London's Fitzrovia, in the shadow of the BT Tower. [30 Nov 2000]
Death to the 'standard' PC: Let's scrap the beige box NOW
Comment The humble office PC is no longer so humble. Let's not forget that these things are smaller than your average PC, and size does matter: less desk space used leads to less office space used leads to lower real estate costs in the long term leads to... [28 Oct 2002]
Leader: Set your workers free
Leader You're sitting in a meeting room in your office and want to share an email with your colleagues - so you pop open your ultra-mobile PC, connect it to the internet via wi-fi and launch Outlook. While most companies are aware of the theoretical... [05 Dec 2006]
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