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Google App Sync breaks search in Outlook
Remember the Google App Sync tool that was meant to open a way for organizations looking to move away from Microsoft Exchange? While I did mention that it would not work in my instance, I do think... Read more...
Forrester: Microsoft Office is in no danger from competition
Microsoft Office remains the prevalent productivity suite among enterprise customers, with 80 percent of enterprise customers using some version of Microsoft Office. This finding was noted in a new... Read more...
Google: Expect significant improvements to Docs suite within a year
We can expect to see dramatic improvements in Google's hosted office productivity applications such as Google Docs "within a year." The president of Google's Enterprise unit, Dave Girouard offered... Read more...
OpenOffice 3.1 comes with better performance
A new version of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite has been released. OpenOffice 3.1 comes with a host of performance improvements and feature enhancements. If you are a heavy spreadsheet... Read more...
Microsoft addresses many bugs in this month's Patch Tuesday
Earlier this week, Microsoft released eight security updates--patching a staggering 23 vulnerabilities spread across Windows, Internet Explorer and some other Microsoft software, including portions... Read more...
Leaked: Screenshots of Office 14
Emil Protalinski over at Ars Technica managed to get his hands on screenshots showing the alpha build of Office 14, which is slated as latest successor of the successful Microsoft Office series. And... Read more...
How Microsoft plans to weather the economic storm
Microsoft is projecting lower revenues and earnings for 2009, but has a plan to weather the current economic storm. Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell said on a conference call last week that the software... Read more...
Office for Mac achieves record sales
Resurgent sales of Mac computers can't be making the folks over at Redmond comfortable. The ironic side-effect is that Microsoft's Office 2008
... Read more...Office Open XML: Officially standard
It was a long and arduous road but despite numerous objections, Read more...






