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Many free and inexpensive office suites are available for download or for use in a web browser. So what's the advantage of paying a pretty penny for a desktop office suite? Corel's WordPerfect Office X4 offers a strong software package that comes closest to the breadth and depth of features found in Microsoft Office.
Office 2008 for Mac may be the best pick for business users, but most people can get by with less expensive alternatives.
ThinkFree Office 3 is a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office that lacks advanced tools but offers a free online component that's a handy work in progress for frequent travellers.
With Google Desktop, you can search for files on your hard drive just as easily as you can search the Internet.
After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise, its competitors are pouncing.
Yahoo, under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management on Thursday in a plan designed to improve its products, underlying technology, and operational execution, the company said.
With the Google-DoubleClick merger wrapped up, Yahoo may face even greater pressure to find itself a buyout partner, according to Wall Street analysts and investors.
It may be Valentines' Day but a couple of protesters from the Australia-Tibet Council failed to feel the love for Google over its decision to censor sensitive content from its Chinese search engine.
Yahoo doesn't want Google to get all the acclaim as the hotbed of innovation on the Web.
For a man a few months away from leaving his job, Bill Gates has a lot on his mind.
In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
Alan Noble is the engineering and site director for Google Australia. ZDNet.com.au sat down with him to find out about the future of Web, and what Google really thinks about Microsoft's move into online applications.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
Google has emerged as the poster child for a new wave of applications assembled from the piece-parts of several Web sites. No Windows necessary but Microsoft has its own ideas, of course.
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