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RSS office in newsMicrosoft hypes Vista, Office launch bash
News Microsoft plans to mark the business launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 with an event in New York on 30 November. Both Vista and Office had originally been slated to arrive on store shelves and new PCs in time for this year's holiday season. [02 Nov 2006]
Office 2007 spurs boom in software market
News Spurred by sales of Microsoft's Office 2007, the software market hit its highest level since 1999, according to a report released yesterday by the NPD Group. A lot of that is due to Microsoft, largely because of Office but also because of Vista's... [31 Jan 2008]
Office 2008 for Mac: It's coming this year
News Putting lingering questions about update timing to rest, Microsoft has announced the new version of Office for Mac will arrive in the second half of this year. Office 2008 for Mac - as the product is being dubbed - is a universal binary, the... [11 Jan 2007]
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 Oct 2002]
Office at risk from bug trio
News A trio of what appear to be new, yet-to-be-patched flaws in Microsoft Office has surfaced, according to security researchers at McAfee. Typically such flaws are exploited by tricking a targeted victim into opening a rigged Office document. [11 Apr 2007]
Office 12: All together now
News Microsoft is putting more emphasis on collaboration in the next version of Office, after getting some help from Groove Networks - the Ray Ozzie-led company they acquired earlier this year - to recognise a shift in the way people work, according to... [17 May 2005]
Office 2007 a slow burner for businesses
News Three-quarters of businesses plan to wait at least three years before upgrading to the newly launched Microsoft Office 2007, according to new research from Forrester. The report, Office Productivity Software Trends: 2007 And Beyond, questioned 118... [24 Jan 2007]
Office - to the desktop, and beyond...
News Most corporate workers already spend their days using Microsoft Office. With an already commanding share of the desktop market, Microsoft these days is trying to transform Office into a tool that is deeply tied into a company's core business... [07 Feb 2005]
In brief: Office 2000 gets first airing
News After months of speculation Microsoft has announced Office 2000. The successor to Office 97 features extensive Web-enabling functionality using HTML as a companion file format. It also has an option that enables customers to install only the... [26 Jun 1998]
Office Excel at risk from attack
News Microsoft has issued a security advisory that malicious attackers are targeting versions of its Office Excel with vulnerabilities. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 with Service Pack 2, Excel Viewer 2003, Excel 2002, Excel 2000, and Microsoft Excel 2004... [17 Jan 2008]
Office space shrinks as mobile computing grows
News Good news for staff fed up with commuting into the office: a third of companies doing business across Europe expect to cut the number of offices they use because of an increased reliance on mobile technologies. [30 May 2006]
Office staff work for free
News Office-based staff are spending the equivalent of 30 days a year working for free because of problems with technology. Inefficient technology is to blame for office workers spending anywhere between one and four extra hours at work every day... [01 Sep 2003]
CIO Jury: Office 2003 features fail to impress
News Microsoft launched the latest version of its flagship desktop Office software at the end of last month to much fanfare, emphasising new features that will aid collaboration and the management of emails - including a 'self-destructing' facility to... [03 Nov 2003]
Office 2003 launched
News Microsoft has launched the latest version of one of its flagship products - Microsoft Office 2003. As well as bundling corporate-friendly tools, including emails with an expiry date and IM for businesses, the successor to Microsoft Office XP is... [22 Oct 2003]
Office 2003 may pose antivirus problem
News The latest test version of Microsoft Office 2003 could cause problems for antivirus companies because the XML-based format it supports will bog down scanning software, according to security experts. The problem centers on macros embedded in... [24 Mar 2003]
