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• 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.

• Microsoft balances patents, standards

  The software giant's recent XML-related patent applications highlight the struggle between open and proprietary.

• When standards don't apply

  A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.

• 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.

• XML: Too much of a good thing?

  Explosion of special-interest XML dialects could mean the standard is a success or could be the start of a new headache.

• Extra headaches of securing XML

  XML-based protocols, or Web Services, are gaining popularity. But expanded use means greater concerns over security. Additional reading: Web Services 101

• Software firms favour e-forms

  Electronic-forms projects are the software world's flavour of the month, with Microsoft, Adobe and others attempting to simplify electronic business transactions.

• Aus Web publishing: managing contentedly

  These days content management systems are more than just workflow tools,"they can perform essential Web site functions. What options are available for businesses?

• Services-oriented architecture gains support

  Experts say the time has come for SOA design approaches, which revamp business processes and could change the economics of delivering software.

• Gates on launching Zune, spiffing up Office

  Microsoft's chairman looks ahead to how the music player might morph and tells why changes in Office 2007 are "such a big deal."

• Web services Visionary: From mishmash to strategy

  Before it gets crowned as technology's next big thing, David Litwack says Web services must solve one of IT's biggest problems: integrating decades-old systems built using different technologies.

• Office 2003 Beta 2: an IT perspective

  As Microsoft's forthcoming office suite takes clearer shape, we report on the latest beta version, and its implications for companies' IT strategies.

• MS Mobility platform targets enterprises

  At a recent conference, Microsoft laid out its strategy for enabling developers to create next-generation location-aware applications.

• Opening up the Office

  Microsoft says beta testing for Office 12 begins in November. Also, the company gets 120,000 requests a month from people who want to save their Office documents in PDF format, making it one of the most requested features.

• XML: Great hope or great hype?

  XML has been called everything from the technology that will revolutionise the Web to a nuisance. What's really the story?

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