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• Win 2K remote access: increasing productivity?

  Though the dreadful possibility of layoffs looms over many companies, there are other ways to achieve a cheaper and more productive workforce: enabling them to work from home.

• The Year 2000 in review

  The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.

• Office users at risk from 'critical' flaw

  Microsoft issued another flock of security alerts Wednesday, including notice of a "critical" flaw that affects many of its Office applications.

• Microsoft to delay Office debut

  A new test version pushes back the final release of the productivity software until later in the year.

• Microsoft rebrands Office as corporate platform

  The latest version of the Office suite of programs is to be positioned as the central base for businesses to build their own solutions.

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• Win 2K remote access: increasing productivity?

  Though the dreadful possibility of layoffs looms over many companies, there are other ways to achieve a cheaper and more productive workforce: enabling them to work from home.

• Office users at risk from 'critical' flaw

  Microsoft issues another herd of vulnerability reports, including a "critical" security hole in numerous Office applications that could let a hacker take control of a PC.

• SharePoint: Why not?

  In many organisations, expansion of Microsoft's SharePoint technologies seems to be inevitable due to unofficial grassroots adoption and standardisation on Microsoft Office. However, other options should still be evaluated, says Meta Group.

• Free word processing programs

  Don't go around sharing copies of Microsoft Office or Corel WordPerfect for your SOHO users. Instead, try one of these free, full-function alternatives.

• Use Microsoft Office in Linux? You can now!

  The majority of administrators and users who are reluctant to switch to Linux blame the lack of applications. That excuse no longer holds water now that CodeWeaver has found a way for Linux to run Microsoft Office.

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• Microsoft to limit access to Office 11

  The next version of Microsoft's Office software will run only on the latest releases of the company's operating systems, leaving older OS users in the dark.

• Free word processing programs

  Don't go around sharing copies of Microsoft Office or Corel WordPerfect for your SOHO users. Instead, try one of these free, full-function alternatives.

• Office 11 beta due next month

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

• OpenOffice.org versus Microsoft Office

  The OpenOffice.org office suite has come a long way since its inception--so much so that it's now a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. See how this open source application fares against the Goliath Microsoft Office suite.

• Microsoft Works Suite 2001

  Works Suite 2001 adds mobile-phone integration and a portfolio of reusable project materials to the popular low-end integrated package, but ups the ante in a major way by adding Word 2000 to the mix.

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