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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...
Office 2000 will no longer be supported after July 14
Microsoft will discontinue security updates for Office 2000 beginning July 14. Since the date coincides with Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday"--the second Tuesday of every month--it is presumed that the... 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...
ALSO NOTED: IT governance leaves a bad taste; Transitioning to OpenOffice;
> IT governance sticks in CIO's craws. Article > Transitioning an organization to... Read more...
Flaw fix in works for OpenOffice
Red Hat is issuing a patch that promises to fix the flaw recently discovered in the free OpenOffice.org productivity software. Cited by security experts as "highly critical," the vulnerability... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Why OpenOffice is under great security scrutiny; Work Web surfing requires IT management oversight; and much more..
> Why OpenOffice is under great security scrutiny. Article > Work Web surfing requires IT management... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Analysts: The Internet is running out of room; Patch issues for MySQL vulnerabilities; and much more...
> Analysts: The Internet is running out of room. Article > Patch issues for MySQL... Read more...
Commercial apps predicted to die off
It's a pretty bold statement to make, but an open source tech titan says commercial software is going to fade away with services taking the industry by storm. That was the statement made by Greg... Read more...
