Microsoft detailed on Tuesday its road map and pricing for Web-based software suites built for big companies and growing businesses.
Commentary: The upcoming version of Office isn't just another software upgrade: The new features that you'll see aren't that interesting. What is interesting is going on behind the scenes.
Microsoft will soon release a beta of Office Live Workspace, a free tool for viewing, sharing and storing, but not editing, Office documents online.
Kicking off what he called the "live era" of software, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday in the United States that the company plans to launch new Internet-based complements to its core products.
Microsoft's security ambitions don't stop with the consumer. The company also has an eye on the multibillion-dollar enterprise security market.
Microsoft's SharePoint Team Services might not have made as big a splash in the business world as some of its other products, but its use is steadily growing.
In many organisations, expansion of Microsoft's SharePoint technologies seems to be inevitable due to unofficial grassroots adoption and standardisation on Microsoft Office. However, other options should still be evaluated, says Meta Group.
Commentary: The upcoming version of Office isn't just another software upgrade: The new features that you'll see aren't that interesting. What is interesting is going on behind the scenes.
Microsoft's business unit chief is on the lookout for ad-supported rivals to the Web-based service.
Microsoft's new batch of services borrows heavily from current or proposed products. Is Windows Live just another name for MSN?
Commentary: The upcoming version of Office isn't just another software upgrade: The new features that you'll see aren't that interesting. What is interesting is going on behind the scenes.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 makes prettier presentations, so an upgrade may be in order if your work is particularly image-focused and you don't mind relearning the application. If PowerPoint 2003 serves you well, however, it offers most of the same features, albeit with flatter-looking graphics.
Microsoft is aiming higher with the new version of FrontPage, which will be launched later this year and sold as a standalone product.
With just over a year between the release of Project Server 2002 and Project Server 2003, you might doubt the value of the enhancements to the latest version. But the changes are based on specific requests from product users.
No recount needed here: Microsoft Office has a mandate. Whether the voters spoke with their pocketbooks or Microsoft crushed competition with predatory practices is immaterial; the fact is, more small businesses run on Office than any other suite. The second and most recent beta version of Office 10, the hopefully temporary name for the next edition of the suite, came out last month. The suite is far from ready for release -- it's too flaky and way too slow for work-a-day chores and chews up system resources faster than Jim Carrey changes personalities -- but from what I've seen so far, Office 10 shows some small business smarts in four areas.
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