Spurred by sales of Microsoft's Office 2007, the software market hit its highest level since 1999, according to a report released Wednesday by the NPD Group.
Windows 7 and Windows Strata may be the stars of Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference next week, but the next version of Office has also landed a role in the production.
Adobe is launching an online community with a word processor and file sharing, while adding Flash and interactive maps to Acrobat 9.
The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format.
Jeff Raikes, the Microsoft executive most closely associated with the emergence of Office, has described the rise of the product as the highlight of his long career at the software maker, which will come to an end in September.
Pretty much anyone who has been in storage management for more than five minutes knows that it's not enough to simply back everything up and hope for the best.
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Discerning thumbs for BlackBerry users are essential to keep away a new threat which can compromise the security of the popular smartphone. Well that's according to Research In Motion's (RIM) Ian Robertson, senior manager of security and research.
Considering the circumstances the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) Change Program has been operating in over the last few years, it really hasn't been going too badly.
The fact that Australia won't be represented at either of the globe's pre-eminent showcases for emerging tech companies should be considered a national disgrace.
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Global trade exchange Bartercard may be an all-Microsoft shop, but the company is far from convinced of the benefits of upgrading to Windows Vista and Office 2007 after testing the beta versions.
The Australian Taxation Office has ruled out any short-term changes to its deployment of a Siebel platform following news this week Oracle was moving to acquire the customer relationship management vendor in a deal worth AU$7.6 billion.
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 Microsoft Office 2010 technical preview shows a lot of promise, with feature enhancements and welcome additions across the entire suite of apps. Check out our overview of the next version of Microsoft's popular office suite.
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At Cisco Live in San Francisco, Silicon Valley entreprenuer Guy Kawasaki, author of Reality Check, talks about the four qualities of innovation that he believes all successful products need. They are: deep, intelligent, complete, and elegant.
With earnings season looming, ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz look ahead at July and discuss what's on deck for the big four: Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. We all know ad spending has tapered, but what does that mean for Google? And will Windows 7 carry Microsoft through the recession?
Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at a press event at his company's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters to discuss new Apple products, including thinner iMacs and new iLife and iWork software. CNET's Molly Wood breaks down all the new releases.
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 programs are to be aimed at encouraging software makers to produce applications for the next version of Office.
ThinkFree Office 3 is a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office that lacks advanced tools but offers a free online component that's a handy work in progress for frequent travellers.
Both Pages 2 and Keynote 3 up the ante, moving each application, and the iWork suite as a whole, a little bit closer to industrial strength.
Company updates productivity software's layout and organisation tools.
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