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  • Microsoft gunning for Adobe's PDF format?

    When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer.

  • Microsoft patches holes in IE, Outlook

    The software giant urges customers to apply updates for both applications to fix critical vulnerabilities that could let attackers run programs on a victim's PC.

  • Adobe a no-show at Macworld

    When Macworld Expo kicks off next week in New York, Adobe Systems will be conspicuously absent from the show floor.

  • Adobe fixes PDF reader flaws

    Adobe Systems joined Microsoft on "Patch Tuesday" and delivered fixes for two security flaws in the ubiquitous Adobe PDF reader software.

  • Next StarOffice goes on sale

    The newest version of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice desktop software suite, a competitor to Microsoft Office, is now available online.

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  • Microsoft patches holes in IE, Outlook

    The software giant urges customers to apply updates for both applications to fix critical vulnerabilities that could let attackers run programs on a victim's PC.

  • Is Windows still relevant?

    In the increasingly Google-YouTube-Web 2.0 age we inhabit, it's become fashionable to dismiss Windows as a relic.

  • Adobe under construction

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

  • Microsoft, Adobe in document showdown?

    Adobe Systems' Acrobat Reader software has become one of those rare birds in personal computing: a de facto standard that has nothing to do with industry giant 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.

Reviews (7)

  • Microsoft patches holes in IE, Outlook

    The software giant urges customers to apply updates for both applications to fix critical vulnerabilities that could let attackers run programs on a victim's PC.

  • Annoying software: a rogues' gallery

    Here are ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented -- and who very nearly succeed.

  • Apple's Mac OS X

    Apple has announced Mac OS X, the new Macintosh operating system which combines the openness of UNIX with the broad applications base of Macintosh.

  • Sun working on StarOffice update

    Sun Microsystems is set to offer a test release of a new version of the software package, one of the company's most visible efforts to erode Microsoft's dominance over PC computing.

  • 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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