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  • Microsoft Office Live beta

    Microsoft's suite of online tools is designed to help small businesses build and maintain a Web presence and manage projects, contacts, and tasks.

  • Microsoft Windows Defender beta 2

    With Windows Defender beta 2, Microsoft beefs up its free antispyware app with a new name, engine and tools.

  • Skype 2 (beta)

    Though Skype 2 suffers from middling voice quality when calling landline phones, it's still one of the best free VoIP services around, and its new Skype Video feature makes it even better.

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta

    Given all the expectations, we wanted more within IE 7 for XP, but Microsoft has given us less.

  • Microsoft Office 12 (beta 1)

    The next generation of the Microsoft Office system offers a new look and feel across its applications, with dynamic formatting tools and nimbler files.

  • Microsoft pulls early Office 2003 beta

    The software giant inadvertently provided developers and enterprise customers with early access to the second testing version of the next version of Office.

  • Office Professional 2003 Beta 2

    Corporate buyers should test this beta -- we suspect you'll love Office 2003's integrated XML. Home users: Office 2003 hasn't been enhanced enough to merit a test. Wait for the final release, and then check our review.

  • Office 11 beta due next month

    Microsoft will be shipping the second beta version of Office 11 next month, complete with XML tools.

  • Office 2003 Beta 2: an IT perspective

    As Microsoft's forthcoming office suite takes clearer shape, we report on the latest beta version, and its implications for companies' IT strategies.

  • OneNote 2003 Beta 2

    Microsoft's OneNote is a unique and innovative application that can provide a workable alternative to the day-to-day use of pen and paper. It could be the 'killer application' for which the Tablet PC has been waiting.

  • Annoying software: a rogues' gallery

    Here are ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented -- and who very nearly succeed.

  • What's new in Windows Vista?

    Don't want to take Windows Vista for a test drive until you know what it has to offer? Join Windows expert Deb Shinder for a visual tour of Beta 2 as she points out some of the more dramatic changes and shares her impressions of the new OS.

  • Firefox 3 beta 1: a first look

    A few months later than originally planned, Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 3, the widely used open-source Web browser. Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of features that Mozilla says should improve security, ease of use, rendering of Web pages and location of previously visited Web pages.

  • WordPerfect Office X4

    Many free and inexpensive office suites are available for download or for use in a web browser. So what's the advantage of paying a pretty penny for a desktop office suite? Corel's WordPerfect Office X4 offers a strong software package that comes closest to the breadth and depth of features found in Microsoft Office.

  • Zoho Office Suite beta

    The Zoho Office Suite beta has strong potential, but it's not yet a final product, and its spreadsheets and presentations apps need more work before you can rely on them.

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