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News (66)

• Google begins Gears-enabling its office apps

  The Google Docs' word processor will be the first Google app to be made available offline using the free Google Gears extension, which means users will soon be able to read and edit their documents even without an Internet connection.

• Google takes spreadsheets, presentations offline

  Google has broadened the number of online applications that people can use offline, adding spreadsheets and presentations to the mix.

• Microsoft offers ten reasons to shun Google

  Microsoft has launched an attack on Google in which it seeks to dissuade businesses from downloading Google Apps.

• Microsoft warns of thieving Word docs

  The software giant says it is studying a security hole that could allow a Word document to steal files from any Windows PC on which it's opened.

• Open Source tool creates OOXML docs for the blind

  Microsoft has helped develop an open source tool that translates Word files into a "talking" digital book format, which makes documents easily accessible by the 160 million people worldwide with impaired vision.

Features and Case Studies (30)

• Google Docs & Spreadsheets: 5 things you probably didn't know you could do

  Google's product experts share their favourite features that often don't get the limelight or that people simply don't know about.

• 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.

• The Linux word processor showdown

  Linux word processors are chipping away at Microsoft Word's ownership of the usability label. Take a look at how StarOffice 6.0 matches up to the current word processing leader.

• Free word processing programs

  Don't go around sharing copies of Microsoft Office or Corel WordPerfect for your SOHO users. Instead, try one of these free, full-function alternatives.

• Office politics: Microsoft Office XP vs Sun StarOffice 6

  Sun would like to think it can succeed where others have failed,,"in breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the office productivity market,"by offering a product that's almost as good as Microsoft Office at a much lower price. Do the sums add up?

Reviews (49)

• Google Docs beta

  Google Docs is a fantastic free online application that offers some exciting features. However, by virtue of being an online application, users with a slow connection will experience lag, and Docs still doesn't contain enough functionality to be a replacement for today's mainstay office suites in most businesses.

• Microsoft Word 2007

  If you're ready to let go of old habits from previous versions of Word and want to make sleeker-looking documents, Microsoft Word 2007 is worth the upgrade. However, less-expensive alternatives handle its core features without the clutter.

• Google combines word processing, spreadsheets

  Google is diving further into the Web-based productivity-applications market by offering a new product that combines its online word-processing and spreadsheet programs.

• Microsoft Office Standard 2007

  If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.

• Microsoft Office 12.0 pre-Beta 1

  Microsoft Office 12.0 pre-Beta 1 drastically revamps the interface layouts of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.

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