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• Office 12: Is that your spreadsheet on my server?

  With the next version of Office, Microsoft is trying to help inspire smarter cubicle dwellers.

• Second zero-day Excel flaw emerges

  Attack code for a new security hole in Excel has surfaced on the Internet, just as Microsoft is scrambling to respond to a separate bug in the spreadsheet program.

• Google buys Web word-processing technology

  Showing that it's more than a little interested in enabling people to handle office tasks over the Internet, Google said on Thursday that it has snapped up Writely, a maker of a Web-based word processor.

• Excel hole opens PCs to hackers

  security hole in Microsoft Excel XP spreadsheet application could allow hackers to take over a user's PC by using specially formed XML stylesheets.

• Case Study: Information management systems

  There are several ways to improve your information management systems. Buy off-the-shelf software, do it yourself, or hire an expert developer. Broadbent Compressor Services chose the third option--this is what happened.

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  Are all Web applications worthy of praise?

  Is the world going to collapse if we own up to the fact that some Internet-based applications are a huge pain? I doubt it, but not everyone seems to agree.

Features and Case Studies (103)

• Office 2010 Technical Preview: A first look

  As Microsoft unveils the next version of its flagship Office suite, we ask: is it revolution or evolution?

• The open source guide to the galaxy

  Could your business be paying for a proprietary program when an open source alternative exists? Take a look at our guide as we count down the most popular open source products.

• Feature: Ad-supported software

  How feasible is it that you could escape paying hefty licensing fees by using software subsidised by advertisements?

• Woolworths get BI curious with SAP

  It wasn't all smooth sailing when Woolworths upgraded to SAP's BI 7.0 recently, but as the retail chain put it: "An ASX Top 10 company cannot consolidate their results on an Excel spreadsheet".

• Death by software

  Craig Errey, our guest columnist from PTG Global, discusses how to avoid spending too much time and money on enterprise software implementations.

Reviews (160)

• Google combines word processing, spreadsheets

  Google is diving further into the Web-based productivity-applications market by offering a new product that combines its online word-processing and spreadsheet programs.

• Microsoft Works 8.0

  As entry-level productivity software, Works 8.0 is a bargain, but it will frustrate power users looking to save a buck.

• Free OpenOffice picks up from StarOffice

  OpenOffice.org developers have put the finishing touches on their productivity suite, which provides users and businesses with an alternative to Microsoft's Office suite.

• Office Live almost out of the gate

  Office Live is still not an online version of Office, but the set of small business tools has a few new tricks and is heading out of beta.

• 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.

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