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• What's behind Microsoft's Office moves?

  Looming competitive and regulatory pressures factored into Microsoft's recent decision to reveal formerly secret pieces of its latest Office software, according to analysts.

• Microsoft limits XML in Office 2003

  A distinction that Microsoft is making between professional and standard versions of Office 2003 means that many customers may not get all the features they've been expecting, including broad support for Web services.

• How open is the new Office?

  Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.

• Office not so suite

  You may not believe this, but Microsoft thinks we're biased...against Microsoft. But if reactions to our office suite review are anything to go by, our readers disagree.

• OpenOffice 3.0 demand crashes servers

  Servers hosting the new version of OpenOffice.org have crashed, under the weight of demand for the latest version of the open-source office productivity suite.

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• Microsoft limits XML in Office 2003

  A distinction that Microsoft is making between professional and standard versions of Office 2003 means that many customers may not get all the features they've been expecting, including broad support for Web services.

• Office not so suite

  You may not believe this, but Microsoft thinks we're biased...against Microsoft. But if reactions to our office suite review are anything to go by, our readers disagree.

• 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.

• AJAX gives software a fresh look

  An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status quo in PC software and blur the line between desktop and Web applications.

• Putting XML in the fast lane

  Data exchange format is just too slow, some say. But there's debate over the best way to make Extensible Markup Language fly.

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  Microsoft Office executive claims OOXML provides greater security than alternative document formats

  Redmond-based group project manager of Microsoft Office, Gray Knowlton, told ZDNet Australia that OOXML provides higher levels of security. "One of the benefits we have with the OpenOffice XML formats is that we know when we read and write and document because we have an XML based representation of what's in that content -- we know what should and should not be there," he said.

Reviews (34)

• 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.

• How open is the new Office?

  Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.

• Corel gets set for next WordPerfect

  The Canadian software maker sets a date of late April for the release of the latest version of its flagship office suite, reworked to lure in corporate buyers.

• Corel debuts new WordPerfect

  The company is releasing the new version of its WordPerfect office software, but analysts say it's unlikely to make much headway against Microsoft Office.

• Office not so suite

  You may not believe this, but Microsoft thinks we're biased...against Microsoft. But if reactions to our office suite review are anything to go by, our readers disagree.

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