Microsoft has pledged to make its new Office 2007 file formats accessible within the company's other products, but the timeline for that support varies widely
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Microsoft has issued an update for Office Mobile to enable compatibility with Office 2007 documents.
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Office 2007 continues to be the focus of discussion here at Big Deal, but the most recent crop of reactions to my postings have shifted from the possible nuisance value of interface changes to the potential upside for OpenOffice, the open-source rival to the desktop suite crown.
Organisations considering a change of productivity suites may do well to follow the example of Queensland University of Technology, which has taken a cautious approach to Microsoft Office 2007 and instead focused on sprucing up its back-end messaging environment.
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This beta refresh reveals the suite's dynamic interface, as well as handy new tools, such as PDF creation.
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