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  • Microsoft business head leaves after 26 years

    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.

  • More than meets the eye in Microsoft plan

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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 to take wraps off Creative Suite 3

    Adobe Systems has launched Creative Suite 3, a showcase for the company's merger with rival Macromedia that is designed to smoothly combine Web design with content creation.

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  • Adobe under construction

    CEO Bruce Chizen talks up the impending merger with Macromedia and what comes next for Flash.

  • Chizen: Friends, foes and China

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

  • When standards don't apply

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

  • Office XP now runs on Linux

    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.

  • Monochrome magic: Six printers tested

    Who needs colour? Sometimes all you need is a black-and-white printer that can churn out the pages fast. We look at your options.

Reviews (80)

  • First Look: Adobe Creative Suite

    Adobe is to bundle upgrades of its content creation applications into two integrated suites. Check out our preview for the components and prices.

  • 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.

  • Adobe king of the hill

    PageMaker is still the king of the hill in many offices where it's used for newsletters, brochures, schedules or posters - the "business publishing" market, as Adobe calls it.

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