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IBM: Symphony downloaded 100,000 times in first week People apparently are already tuning in to IBM's Symphony. The company reported Wednesday that its free rival to Microsoft's Office suite was downloaded 100,000 times in the first week of release. Microsoft dates, prices Office 2008 for Mac Microsoft has named the date on which Mac OS X users can get their hands on the latest version of its Office suite. September 25, 4:02 a.m. PDT IBM takes fight to Microsoft with Lotus Symphony IBM is to offer the world a free word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program in yet another bid to upset the dominance of Microsoft's Office suite. September 18, 5:36 a.m. PDT Google applauds ISO vote, voices OOXML concerns Google, which has been less vocal than some on the furor surrounding the standards process for Microsoft's Office Open XML, came out Friday in support of the ISO's decision to reject the specification. September 14, 4:13 p.m. PDT Microsoft Office 2007 a retail hit, NPD says Microsoft may be having trouble selling Windows Vista in retail, but its Office line is going like gangbusters, according to market research firm NPD Group. Part of the reason: People who switch from PCs to Macs. September 12, 12:21 p.m. PDT IBM throws weight behind OpenOffice.org project After years of holding out, IBM has joined the OpenOffice.org open-source community and will contribute code to the office suite that serves as an alternative to Microsoft's Office software. September 10, 11:36 a.m. PDT Web-hosted office suites are here to stay Adison & Partners is a small yet emblematic part of a major shift in how office software is sold and used. September 10, 10:15 a.m. PDT Microsoft teases with Office 2008 for Mac features Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has begun revealing features of its forthcoming Office 2008 for Mac. September 6, 7:25 a.m. PDT SaaSy eXpresso gives a jolt to Excel workgroups You'd be hard-pressed to find any organization that doesn't depend on Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean spreadsheets are treated as an enterprise resource, and here's where the SaaS (software as a service) movement fills the gap. A new hosted application, called eXpresso, not only brings document management to spreadsheet-based workgroups, but jumps past basic file versioning solutions by adding considerable community features including chat and simultaneous editing – all without an IT admin lifting a finger.  September 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT Last call: Oliver's parting shot Back in the saddle again… September 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT ISO votes to reject Microsoft's OOXML as standard Microsoft Corp. has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization. September 4, 4:44 a.m. PDT Open XML stumbles in India A technical committee in India unanimously rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard, ahead of a vote on Sept. 2 by the ISO on whether to approve Open XML as an international standard. August 24, 8:15 a.m. PDT Google Apps no match for MS Office, report says Deploying Google Apps could be a "career-limiting move for enterprise architects" if they expect too much from the software-as-a-service collaboration suite and its "rudimentary" feature set, the Burton Group research and consulting firm says in a new report. August 23, 6:12 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft loses key U.S. OpenXML vote Microsoft has lost a key vote in its quest to develop an alternative to the Open Document Format standard, backed by the open-source community. August 10, 5:19 p.m. PDT Microsoft delays Mac Office 2008 Microsoft on Thursday pushed back the release date of Office 2008 for Mac until January, a delay from an earlier promise to deliver the new suite this year. August 2, 9:56 a.m. PDT Massachusetts adds Open XML to standards list Microsoft has scored another victory in its quest to have its XML-based file format accepted as a technology standard. On Wednesday, Massachusetts said it has ratified the addition of Open XML to its list of acceptable document formats for use in its government agencies. August 2, 9:25 a.m. PDT Weird tech: Raw fish ID When James Allard lived in Japan as a student in the 1990s, he frequented kaiten sushi restaurants, which keep prices low by circulating dishes on a conveyor belt rather than making nigiri, sashimi, and sushi rolls to order. The problem he observed was that dishes stayed on the belt too long, losing freshness and becoming unappetizing. July 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft: INCITS standards committee will approve Open XML A key U.S. standards committee remains undecided about whether it will support a document standard proposed by Microsoft, even while the company asserted that the committee has already signalled its "yes" in an upcoming vote. July 25, 9:20 a.m. PDT Open XML recovers from setback to ISO approval Microsoft's quest to have Open XML approved by the International Organization for Standards (ISO) as a global technology standard seems to have recovered from a setback it suffered last week as both sides of the Open XML-ODF debate shore up arguments as the final vote to approve Open XML nears. July 20, 3:47 p.m. PDT Microsoft launches OBA partner program Determined to get partners on board to help transform Office 2007 from a productivity suite to a platform for business applications, Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a program to help partners add functionality to the suite by creating Office Business Applications, or OBAs. July 10, 8:26 a.m. PDT Denmark to test Open XML, ODF next year Denmark's government agencies will be required to handle two competing document format standards, the Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Open XML, during a one-year test period that will begin next year. July 5, 4:56 a.m. PDT Massachusetts adds Open XML to open formats list Microsoft has achieved a small victory in its effort to make Open XML an open technology standard. Massachusetts, the U.S. state that has mandated the use of open technology formats in its government agencies, has put the specification on its list of possible standards that can be used for documents, according to a document on its Web site. July 3, 5:05 a.m. PDT Microsoft pushes OBAs to take Office to next level Microsoft has been quietly adding to the cache of reference applications it hopes will help transform Microsoft Office 2007 from a mere productivity suite to a collaboration tool. June 28, 5:26 a.m. PDT Parallels for Mac cozies up to Vista On the heels of Apple's launch of the Intel Mac, a company called Parallels captured the spotlight with an eponymous product that does for Mac OS X what VMware Workstation did for the Windows and Linux world -- full-blown hardware virtualization in a workstation package running natively on the Mac OS. Parallels allowed less-than-satisfied Windows users to jump to the Mac and to take their Windows applications with them. Windows-only applications and games were no longer a sticking point. June 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Adobe adds mark-up features to Acrobat 3D Adobe Systems has upgraded its Adobe Acrobat 3D software for incorporating 3D CAD models in PDF files, adding the ability to mark up the images with product manufacturing information such as dimensions and tolerances. The update also allows the exporting of such data from the PDF file into formats, such as STEP and IGES, used by manufacturing tools. May 30, 7:34 a.m. PDT Chinese XML format will get Microsoft converter Microsoft will collaborate with the Chinese government and universities to make a plug-in that will let users read and save documents written in two different XML (Extensible Markup Language) file formats. May 21, 5:23 a.m. PDT Microsoft backs adding ODF to ANSI standards Days after declaring its intention to aggressively collect patent royalties from open-source distributors, Microsoft backed adding ODF (Open Document Format for XML), the document file format used widely in open-source alternatives to Microsoft Office, to a list of business standards. May 17, 12:10 p.m. PDT Oracle to buy premier PLM company Agile Oracle announced today that it is buying Agile Software, one of the premier product lifecycle management solution providers. May 15, 3:09 p.m. PDT Gates launches developing world tech initiative Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates launched an initiative in Beijing Thursday aimed at bridging the digital divide between technologically advanced and developing countries. April 19, 6:57 a.m. PDT Microsoft plans $3 suite for emerging markets Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Thursday is expected to unveil a global initiative by Microsoft to bring computers and technology education resources to emerging countries during an appearance in Beijing. April 19, 4:41 a.m. PDT Enterprises seek social-network effect Social bookmarking and IRC (Internet relay chat) top the list of must-have tools for organizations that want to leverage Web 2.0 technologies within the enterprise, according to a Web 2.0 Expo panel moderated by Rob Rueckert of Intel Capital. April 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google Apps to take on PowerPoint Google is adding a presentations application to Docs & Spreadsheets, narrowing the competitive space between this productivity and collaboration hosted suite and Microsoft's Office suite. April 17, 12:38 p.m. PDT Microsoft investigates reports of new Office flaws Security experts have discovered more vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and other software, although hackers do not appear to be exploiting them yet. The flaws have been reported just as Microsoft releases its latest round of security patches. April 11, 5:14 a.m. PDT What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Google inks software deals in Africa Google will partner with Rwanda and Kenya to make Web communication tools such as e-mail and PC-to-PC voice calling more widely available in Africa, the company said on Monday. March 21, 11:01 a.m. PST Microsoft dials in to SMBs with new speech-recognition phone system Microsoft will unveil a speech recognition-enabled phone system Monday designed to give small businesses a flexible alternative to a PBX, the company said. March 19, 10:40 a.m. PST SAP to offer regular updates for Business One More and faster: That's how SAP wants to deliver enhancements to its software for small businesses. March 15, 6:12 a.m. PST Office Live needs a makeover First, I've got to do a quick correction on the Daylight Saving Time (DST) snafu I wrote about in my previous column -- even though by the time you read this, there's a good chance the whole mess is already over. It turns out that Redmond is trying to help its customers to negotiate this truly goofy problem. Microsoft has put numerous product engineers and support people on a DST-only team. Folks with the right kind of application support can reach these guys to avoid a daylight nightmare. March 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft readies Forecaster 7.0 Microsoft will ship the next version of Forecaster, its midmarket budgeting and planning application, in early April, the first major release of the software since 2003. March 6, 8:22 a.m. PST More IT war stories Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.” March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Deploying Microsoft Office 2007 A Microsoftee will tell you that deploying Office 2007 is as simple as adding it to a WIM (Windows Imaging Format) file. Theoretically, we don’t disagree, but practically, no way, no how. You’ll need additional tools for this job, and the best places to look are Microsoft’s BDD (Business Desktop Deployment) 2007 kit and the Office 2007 Resource Kit (see also the Test Center Analysis "Microsoft tools ease Vista deployment"). March 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Corel releases public beta of WordPerfect Lightning Corel released a free public beta of WordPerfect Lightning on Tuesday, a word processor that blends a desktop-based application with online collaboration and storage features. February 27, 4:29 a.m. PST The benefits of a fast close A fast close — the ability of a company to complete its accounting cycle and close its books — is more than just a badge of honor for the finance department. It means dollars. The question is, Is your technology getting in the way or is it helping? February 27, 3:00 a.m. PST Attackers seize on new zero-day in Word Microsoft's Word and Office programs have been targeted again, with the company warning that hackers may already exploiting a new vulnerability found in the applications. February 15, 4:26 a.m. PST Sun to offer ODF plug-in for Microsoft Office Sun has created software that will provide translation between the file format in Microsoft's Office 2003 suite and ODF (Open Document Format for XML). The plug-in lets people who use computers with assistive technologies to access documents written in ODF. February 7, 12:27 p.m. PST Texas, Minnesota eye move to ODF Texas and Minnesota may become the second and third U.S. states to adopt ODF (Open Document Format for XML) as the standard file format for government documents instead of the file format that Microsoft uses in its Office 2007 software suite. February 6, 1:52 p.m. PST Microsoft: Excel vulnerable to new attack With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software. February 5, 4:43 a.m. PST Today’s end-user: Hardly working The U.S. workplace is the new dysfunctional family. I’ve reached that conclusion after stumbling on a string of statistics that make me wonder how American companies ever get anything done, much less show a profit. February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST 12 quick IT productivity wins Stop us if this story sounds familiar. You’ve been asked to a) keep your infrastructure humming and b) come up with innovative ways to use technology to boost the bottom line. Meanwhile, your resources are stretched tighter than a $2 string on a banjo and you spend so much time putting out fires you should be wearing a helmet and carrying a hose. February 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Open XML translator for Word available Companies have completed the first phase of a Microsoft-sponsored project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and Open Document Format for Office Applications file formats. February 2, 4:27 a.m. PST Microsoft: Office training fears overblown Many corporate IT managers have voiced concerns that the dramatically different user interface in Microsoft's new Office 2007 software will force them to undertake more carefully planned migrations than they've had to do in the past, with an increased amount of end-user training. But Chris Capossela, corporate vice president of the product management group in Microsoft's Business Division, insists that companies won't have to devise "some big sophisticated training plan" to roll out Office 2007. During an interview at Monday night's Windows Vista and Office 2007 launch event in New York, Capossela said IT departments can find plenty of freely available interactive training materials on Microsoft's Web site. Excerpts from the interview follow. January 31, 8:57 a.m. PST Gates brings Vista and Office 2007 to Europe Microsoft's Bill Gates ushered his company's new Vista OS and Office 2007 software suite into Europe on Tuesday morning, near the end of a round-the-world event that brings the software to 70 countries in 19 languages. January 30, 6:08 a.m. PST Adobe pushes full PDF spec to become ISO standard Adobe Systems is taking the first step towards having its entire Portable Document Format (PDF) specification recognized as a global standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). January 29, 6:28 a.m. PST Women in technology: A call to action A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology. January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST Back to school: Getting girls into IT Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age. January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST Activism provides competitive advantage for IT Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers. January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST Gender crisis in IT You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Countdown to Vista, Office 2007 launch begins in Asia It's less than 12 hours and counting down towards the consumer launch of Microsoft's new Vista operating system and Office 2007 for customers in Asia. January 28, 8:28 p.m. PST Project Server 2007 pays off Who was that little Dutch kid who kept sticking in fingers in the dam leaks? Trying to keep my reviews output in sync with Microsoft's product releases makes me feel a bit like that. Especially when it comes to new servers. You might think that Office SharePoint Server 2007 is all that Office 2007 will want, but you'd be wrong. We've been using Project Server 2007 for a little bit and just got Groove Server 2007 a week or so ago. For now, I'll give you our scoop as it stands on Project Server. January 24, 3:00 a.m. PST OpenOffice, Office 2007 ready to rumble on rival document formats On Tuesday, rivals Microsoft and OpenOffice.org both released toolkits that support building applications for their competing document file formats and productivity suites. January 23, 11:14 a.m. PST Microsoft pays for Wikipedia edits A software engineer in Australia has said he was offered payment by Microsoft to edit certain entries in the Wikipedia online dictionary, opening a heated debate about the ethics of such a move. January 23, 7:33 a.m. PST Office SharePoint: The best reason to upgrade? Far more flexible and powerful than the InfoWorld Test Center anticipated when we first took it into the lab, MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) 2007 oozes customization. With that name, you may be thinking basic Office extensions — some networked content, update control, and more advanced file sharing. Not so. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Upgrading to Vista? Proceed with caution Certainly no coincidence, Microsoft has decked out its much-anticipated OS upgrade with beautiful landscape wallpapers — vistas, to be exact. But, as calming as these background images may be for end-users getting acquainted with Vista, for IT directors, the landscape approaching an enterprise rollout of any new Windows operating system has always been rocky. Convincing management with compelling ROI, quelling grumpy user rebellions, and making sure the whole thing doesn’t blow up in your face are by now well-known impediments along any Windows migration path. It’s enough to make IT departments considering the journey downright cautious. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Brace for Exchange 2007 bumps CES is over, I'm 41, the Jesuits have gone home, and I'm sick as a dog. It's been an eventful week. January 17, 3:00 a.m. PST Learning to consume We tried. We really tried. We had every intention of sticking to our knitting — reporting on a slate of enterprise computing topics, from blade servers to SOA deployment strategies. January 15, 3:00 a.m. PST UK schools advised to hold off on Vista, Office 2007 Microsoft needs to make a stronger case for U.K. schools to upgrade to Windows Vista and Office 2007 as neither product contains essential new features, according to a report from a British educational advisory group. January 12, 5:31 a.m. PST Capitalize on emerging collaboration options Messaging vendors have long been packing their wares with features in hopes of providing an all-encompassing platform that fulfills every enterprise’s collaboration needs. Rather than shell out far too much again this year for seldom or inefficiently used capabilities, why not consider emerging alternatives as a way to assemble a collaboration environment suited to your particular budget and needs? January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Adobe to launch Production Studio for Mac Adobe Systems will demonstrate its Production Studio software for the Macintosh operating system at the Macworld 2007 Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco January 9 to 12, the company said Thursday. January 4, 4:28 a.m. PST Technology of the Gods January is named after Janus, the two-faced Roman deity of beginnings and endings, who reportedly was able to look both forward and back. So for our Jan. 1 issue, we pay homage to the mythological immortal with our seventh annual Technology of the Year Awards, an analysis of where IT has been and where it’s going in 2007. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Dawn of the Web office Once upon a time, before e-mail, three major applications came to define the office suite: spreadsheet, word processor, and database. We created and edited documents using these programs, and we traded them back and forth using floppies and the LAN. The legacy of the personal computer era is that, to this day, the context in which these exchanges occur remains fundamentally personal. I create the document, I give it to you to make changes, and you give it back to me. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft ends 2006 with a bang Many companies had significant impacts on the IT technology landscape in 2006, but Microsoft stands alone in one special category: Prolific Tech Spewage. Vista, Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server, and Exchange Server 2007 are the four releases on everyone’s lips today, but if you cast your eye back across the narrows of 2006, you’ll see that the Redmond elves were busy with launch events all year long, not just in November. Let’s do a short recap: Exchange Hosted Services, Forefront Client Security, SharePoint Designer 2007, two System Center client/server releases, Small Business Server 2003 Release 2, Windows Live and (more importantly) Office Live, updates to Virtual Server, and VoIP capability for Desktop Communicator, just for starters. Developers got loads of goodies in 2006 as well (updates to Visual Studio, ASP.NET AJAX, the Robotics Studio, and more), and even the after-hours crowd got new toys as Microsoft handily spanked the Wii and the PlayStation -- at least this year. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Sea change at SAP If anyone doubts that competition spurs change, let them sit down with Dennis Moore, general manager for emerging solutions at SAP, and talk about what SAP has on tap for 2007. As I see it, what’s coming out of SAP this year represents a sea change taking place across the software industry. December 26, 3:00 a.m. PST Review of reviews It’s coming up on closing time for 2006. All around us, everyone is going into holiday mode. Not to be curmudgeonly contrarians, InfoWorld will be following suit, taking a one-week break before returning on Jan. 1 with our first print issue of the year. (It’s really only a semi-hiatus; InfoWorld.com will continue to perk over the holidays with a slightly reduced slate of stories.) December 18, 3:00 a.m. PST IBM project aims to help blind use ODF applications When Massachusetts' government decided to use Open Document Format (ODF) as the default document file format throughout its agencies, a key concern was that ODF would not allow the visually impaired to use assistive computer technologies. December 13, 4:02 p.m. PST Update: Google interested in South Korean office suite Google is reportedly in talks with a South Korean software company and its U.S. subsidiary ThinkFree, a maker of browser-based office productivity software compatible with Microsoft Corp. file formats. December 13, 9:42 a.m. PST Data export, delivered From time to time I get recruited to help someone export mail and contacts from one e-mail program and import the data into another. The fact that a civilian must recruit a geek to accomplish this seemingly mundane task speaks volumes about our industry’s sad history of data lock-in. December 6, 3:00 a.m. PST Novell to support Open XML in office suite in January Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. have wasted little time in demonstrating there is real work being done as part of their recent Linux interoperability pact. Just a month after the historic deal between the companies, Novell said Monday it will support the proprietary document format in Microsoft Office 2007, Open XML, in its open-source version of the OpenOffice productivity suite by the end of January. December 4, 9:41 a.m. PST China aims to set a new office doc standard What office document formats will your organization support next year? The answer used to be simple: You'd standardize on Microsoft Office, just like everybody else. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Vista, Office 2007 business launch gets rolling Microsoft kicked off the day-long launch of its Vista operating system, Office 2007 suite, and Exchange Server 2007 applications for enterprise users with events at three locations in Asia Thursday. November 30, 4:13 a.m. PST Corel to fully support ODF, Open XML Corel Corp. is adopting a neutral approach to the electronic document format duel and updating its WordPerfect word processing software to fully support both the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML formats. November 29, 10:30 a.m. PST We need a universal canvas that doesn't suck Like many of you, probably, I tire-kicked Google Spreadsheets when it first arrived on the scene, then forgot all about it. A nice bit of AJAX hackery, I thought, but no serious competition for Excel. I was wrong, though, and here’s an anecdote that explains why. November 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Patent ruling threatens Microsoft Office Microsoft may have to pull its Office suite from the shelves in South Korea as a result of losing a patent lawsuit in that country, according to published reports. November 28, 4:15 a.m. PST Microsoft licenses Office UI for free Microsoft Corp. is licensing the new UI (user interface) in Office 2007 for free so developers can build applications that look similar to the programs in the suite, the company said Tuesday. November 21, 2:56 p.m. PST Microsoft: No shutdown switch for Office 2007 Microsoft Corp. has no plans to add a controversial Windows Vista antipiracy feature directly to its Office 2007 suite, but will consider offering it as an add-on system, the company said Tuesday. November 21, 9:56 a.m. PST Springhill Medical Center emerges from the paper age For software developers, a crucial metric of success is the ability of their organization’s employees to get solid results from the applications the developers build, a practice known in the industry as “eating one’s own dog food.” Mark Kilborn, a regional CIO of Eclipsys, has spent the past three years helping Springhill Medical Center in Mobile, Ala., in its effort to automate emergency department procedures. He got to witness the results of his team’s project when, in early October, his 14-year-old son broke his wrist playing football. November 13, 3:00 a.m. PST Office Live a smart move Microsoft was handing out press accounts to Office Live Premium about a week ago, so we're tinkering with it. We'll do the hands-on part somewhere else, but it's worth discussing Microsoft's strategy here. Bottom line: This is the best New Economy, Web 2.0 Internet move I've seen Microsoft make in a long time. November 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft pushes dual deployment of Vista, Office 2007 With the launch of Windows Vista and Office 2007 less than a month away, Microsoft on Monday was in New York showing off some features of the products it thinks should convince business customers that upgrading -- and deploying both applications at once -- is a good idea. November 7, 8:59 a.m. PST Simple, single-purpose screen sharing There’s one thing I wish screen-sharing systems would do well: screen sharing. I watch a lot of demos projected to my computer. It’s always a struggle, both for the presenter and for me. Windows or Mac? IE or Firefox? Who has the latest version of the client? Who’s the host? Which application is shared? Can you see my screen? November 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft offers free small-business software Microsoft Corp. has turned its accounting suite for small businesses into two separate offerings, one of which users can download for free starting Monday. October 30, 4:19 a.m. PST Redefining innovation Innovative ideas are a dime a dozen, according to Jim Andrew, senior partner at big-time consultancy BCG. In fact, at most companies, coming up with great concepts for a product, service, or process isn’t even an issue. But turning those ideas into money … ah, there’s the rub. October 30, 3:00 a.m. PST MS Office antipiracy checks to become mandatory The Office worker productivity and collaboration suite is about to become the next piece of software from Microsoft Corp. subject to mandatory piracy checks. October 26, 11:08 a.m. PDT Munich mayor: Full speed ahead to open source For Munich, there's no turning back now. After some delay, the city is pushing full-speed ahead with its migration to Linux on the desktop, and even mayor Christine Strobl, a newly converted open-source user, likes what she sees. October 24, 10:02 a.m. PDT Microsoft agrees to Arkansas settlement Microsoft has agreed to offer $37.8 million in vouchers for free software and hardware to Arkansas residents as part of a settlement of an outstanding class action suit against the company. October 24, 4:21 a.m. PDT Visiting Vista RC2, Part One You know I had to do it. After the piece about my week using only browser-based "Web 2.0" office productivity applications, it just wouldn't have been fair not to do one on a week in Office 2007 Beta. And I figured while I was at it, I'd run the new Office on Vista RC2 because Microsoft conveniently released the code just in time. October 19, 3:00 a.m. PDT Office Live to complement Office 2007 in SMBs Office Live, a set of web-hosted services from Microsoft, will play a key role in the delivery of collaboration functions to users of its Office 2007 suite in small businesses. October 13, 4:25 a.m. PDT Google combines Writely and Spreadsheets Google has integrated its formerly separate spreadsheet and word processing applications, giving them a uniform user interface and a unified document repository. October 11, 4:49 a.m. PDT Ecma could publish final Office Open XML draft Monday Standards body Ecma International expects to publish the final draft of the Office Open XML file formats specification proposed by Microsoft Corp. as early as Monday, ahead of a formal vote to adopt the specification as a standard in December. October 5, 9:48 a.m. PDT Danish gov't weighs switch to Open Office The Danish government could save around 125 million Danish krone ($21 million) over the next five years if it adopted the OpenOffice.org productivity software instead of upgrading to Microsoft's Office 2007 suite. Doing nothing could save it even more, according to a study by consultancy Rambøll Management A/S. October 4, 9:20 a.m. PDT UK supermarket to launch software range U.K. supermarket chain Tesco Stores will launch six PC software applications under its own brand, including a word processor and antivirus software, later this month. The software packages will sell for under £20 ($37), and will include free online support via e-mail. October 2, 8:37 a.m. PDT > Applications |
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