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Microsoft on Tuesday released what its executives touted as one of the most significant product updates in the company's history: a fresh version of Office with extensive new hooks into corporate computing systems.
As Microsoft's forthcoming office suite takes clearer shape, we report on the latest beta version, and its implications for companies' IT strategies.
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In the past year, Microsoft appears to have done just what it asked a court not to make it do: fragment Windows.
As Microsoft's forthcoming office suite takes clearer shape, we report on the latest beta version, and its implications for companies' IT strategies.
Microsoft will be shipping the second beta version of Office 11 next month, complete with XML tools.
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