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  • Microsoft announces Office 2007 pricing, details

    Microsoft on Wednesday offered further details on the next version of Office, announcing plans for a new home version as well as new server-based products and a new high-end enterprise edition of the desktop suite.

  • Patent spat forces businesses to upgrade Office

    Microsoft has begun e-mailing its corporate customers worldwide, letting them know that they may need to start using a different version of Office as a result of a recent legal setback.

  • Office standards battle grinds on

    Standards body Ecma International has created a committee to standardise Microsoft Office document formats, handing the software giant a victory in an intensifying struggle over desktop software.

  • Office 12 moves closer to beta

    Microsoft has notified potential testers that it expects to release the first beta version of Office 12 in the next few weeks.

  • Microsoft loses appeal in Office patent spat

    A US appeals court has upheld a ruling that Microsoft's Office software infringes on a Guatemalan inventor's technology, lawyers for the inventor said Friday in the US.

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  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    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 - Munir Kotadia

    Don't bother upgrading to Entourage 2008

    If you're considering an upgrade to Entourage 2008, think again -- for some reason, Microsoft hasn't bothered to add some vital functions that are critical to making Apple Mac systems welcome on any Exchange network.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    New Year's resolution: Don't forget the format

    Pretty much anyone who has been in storage management for more than five minutes knows that it's not enough to simply back everything up and hope for the best.

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    Next week customers can begin testing software that links Microsoft's e-mail and calendar programs with SAP's back-office business applications, the companies said.

  • Fighting Office with open source

    Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.

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    Here's what you should know before you invite the new Office onto your hard drive.

  • Gates on launching Zune, spiffing up Office

    Microsoft's chairman looks ahead to how the music player might morph and tells why changes in Office 2007 are "such a big deal."

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Reviews (76)

  • 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.

  • Microsoft Outlook 2007

    If you work with Microsoft Outlook on a daily basis, this upgrade can make scheduling simpler and e-mailing more interesting. Still, we wish Instant Search and e-mail rendering were better.

  • 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.

  • New Office product to simplify forms

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to unveil a new product intended to turn Office into a data-collection tool and boost sales of the desktop software.

  • Microsoft Office System 2003

    While Microsoft Office System is the most complete suite on the block, there's no compelling reason for everyone to upgrade.

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