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    Jeff Raikes, the Microsoft executive most closely associated with the emergence of Office, has described the rise of the product as the highlight of his long career at the software maker, which will come to an end in September.

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    A little-known Microsoft project promises to bring advanced graphics to a broad range of devices and set up a potential showdown with Adobe Systems.

  • Microsoft announces work flow, graphics tools

    Moving further into the world of business processes, Microsoft on Wednesday in the US announced a plan to build work flow management into many of its products.

  • Adobe AIR brings online apps to the desktop

    AIR, or Adobe Integrated Runtime, is a download that lets Web applications run on a desktop. With AIR applications, people can work offline and drag and drop items like graphics or text between Web and desktop applications.

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    Microsoft will enable people to publish documents in the Adobe PDF format with Office 12, a company product manager said on Saturday.

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    The big, booming nation is much on the mind of Adobe's CEO. Then there are the little matters of Apple and Microsoft.

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    A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.

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    Linux users can now run Office XP on Linux following the release of a commercial application that allows the package to run on the open source operating system.

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Reviews (57)

  • Microsoft Word 2007

    If you're ready to let go of old habits from previous versions of Word and want to make sleeker-looking documents, Microsoft Word 2007 is worth the upgrade. However, less-expensive alternatives handle its core features without the clutter.

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    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.

  • Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended (Beta)

    Adobe's latest incarnation of Acrobat is top of the line, highly featured software. Just make sure you need all the bells and whistles before you pay the AU$999 price tag.

  • Corel WordPerfect Office 12.0

    WordPerfect 12.0 features a core stable of productivity apps but suffers from its poor handling of Microsoft files.

  • Graphics Wars: which vendors are winning?

    While the tide of technological delivery continues to shift, four graphics software vendors struggle for supremacy. ZDNet Australia profiles the leading combatants.

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