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  • Word, PowerPoint blocked by Office 2003 update

    The latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003 has made a range of older files inaccessible, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, it emerged this week.

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    After years of questioning the value of Net-based productivity applications, Microsoft confirmed overnight that it would offer new versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that can run from within a standard Web browser.

  • Photos: MS cloud Office faces off Google, Zoho

    Microsoft's announcement of cloud based Office had sent ripples through the web, bring the company one step closer to head-to-head competition with Google and other SaaS vendors such as Zoho. This screenshot gallery gives you a first look at the new online offering.

  • Microsoft sets pricing on Office 2008 for Mac

    Although the release of the next version of Office for the Mac has slipped into next year, Microsoft is ready with the pricing and packaging options.

  • Microsoft Office flaws up 300 percent

    Between 2006 and 2007, there was an almost threefold rise in flaws found in Microsoft software, according to vulnerability-scanning company Qualys.

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    Office no place for power users

    While elements of Microsoft's Office suite have been in use for more than 20 years, the company now appears unpleasantly convinced that nobody really has any idea how to use the product.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    When did coding become a dirty word?

    Nobody ever said that writing integration code was fun, but maybe it's time that vendors recognised that it's still an important task in most IT departments.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Confessions of an ATUG conference

    Those of us who've spent a bit of time attending conferences around Australia will know that every event has its bloopers. This week's Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG) conference held in Sydney was certainly no exception.

  • Read the blog post - Steven Deare

    Here come the drums

    "Hi, where do I find the keynote session," I asked the registration desk of the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) conference. "That's upstairs. Just follow the drumming." Right, I thought.

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  • Photo gallery: Microsoft Office 2007 beta 1

    This beta refresh reveals the suite's dynamic interface, as well as handy new tools, such as PDF creation.

  • Office politics: Microsoft Office XP vs Sun StarOffice 6

    Sun would like to think it can succeed where others have failed­â€"in breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the office productivity marketâ€"by offering a product that's almost as good as Microsoft Office at a much lower price. Do the sums add up?

  • How would you improve the next MS Office?

    The next version of Microsoft Office is due in the next year or so. If you were product manager for the industry-standard office suite, what would you add? What would you get rid of? What would you fix?

  • One OS for all handhelds?

    Two Singapore programmers claim to have created an operating system that can run programs written for different platforms such as Windows and Linux.

  • Designing presentations: Ten PowerPoint shortcuts

    With PowerPoint quickly becoming a standard tool for organisations of all sizes, a few tips on designing PowerPoint presentations could come in handy.

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Reviews (185)

  • Microsoft Office: Then and Now

    Help, where did Undo go? Here's where to find that and other must-have commands in the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.

  • Microsoft Office Standard 2007

    If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.

  • Microsoft Office 12.0 pre-Beta 1

    Microsoft Office 12.0 pre-Beta 1 drastically revamps the interface layouts of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.

  • Photo gallery: Microsoft Office 2007 beta 1

    This beta refresh reveals the suite's dynamic interface, as well as handy new tools, such as PDF creation.

  • Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac

    The improvements in Word, Excel and PowerPoint make this upgrade worth the cash, especially for Office 2001 users, but the new Project Center needs beefing up.

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