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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.

  • Office, Vista changed in wake of Adobe threat

    Microsoft is making changes to the next versions of both Office and Windows as part of an effort to head off a legal challenge from Adobe Systems.

  • Developers want Ballmer to show money

    Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers.

  • Adobe to pull Office rival out of AIR?

    Adobe may look to the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) platform to launch an office productivity suite to take on Microsoft.

  • Build the platform and apps will come: Adobe exec

    Adobe's strategy for it Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is not to take on Microsoft directly, but provide a platform for developers to build Web-applications, according to a company executive.

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    Microsoft says beta testing for Office 12 begins in November. Also, the company gets 120,000 requests a month from people who want to save their Office documents in PDF format, making it one of the most requested features.

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    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

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    With the introduction of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, sites and software that depend on ActiveX may falter under Microsoft's new security regime.

Reviews (1)

  • Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac

    The improvements in Word, Excel and PowerPoint make this upgrade worth the cash, especially for Office 2001 users, but the new Project Center needs beefing up.

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