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  • Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard

    Adobe Systems' popular portable document format (PDF) has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard.

  • 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.

  • Google Docs gets limited PDF support

    Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but still useful support for PDF files.

  • Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops

    Suncorp's CIO, Jeff Smith, says he would like the banking and insurance giant to use open source software for its 20,000 desktops, which currently run Windows XP.

  • OpenOffice ready for world tour

    The organization behind OpenOffice on Wednesday released a trial version of one of the first major updates to the free open-source office software. A beta release of version 1.1 of OpenOffice is available now from OpenOffice.org.

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  • 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.

  • Photos: Fresh features in OpenOffice 2.4

    OpenOffice 2.4, which was released on Thursday, comes with an assortment of collaboratively engineered bug fixes and small, but significant, usability enhancements.

  • 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.

  • When standards don't apply

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

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Reviews (13)

  • OpenOffice ready for world tour

    The organization behind OpenOffice on Wednesday released a trial version of one of the first major updates to the free open-source office software. A beta release of version 1.1 of OpenOffice is available now from OpenOffice.org.

  • Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

    For composing long PDF packages at an office that requires security and wants to use the new digital forms, Acrobat 8's got the goods, but it's overkill if you only seek to make short PDF files.

  • New Office relies on buddy system

    Microsoft says the new version of Office, its most profitable product, could also represent a bonanza for its partners.

  • Corel debuts new WordPerfect

    The company is releasing the new version of its WordPerfect office software, but analysts say it's unlikely to make much headway against Microsoft Office.

  • 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.

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