Experts believe the rising number of exploits targeting Excel gives hackers incentive to continually exploit applications -- rather than operating systems -- for flaws.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 29, 2008
Microsoft Corp. said hackers have found a way to use some older versions of its Excel spreadsheet program to take over control of people's computers.
- By The Associated Press
- January 16, 2008
At the Macworld Conference & Expo, Microsoft today is releasing Office 2008 for Mac, the latest version of the company's ubiquitous office productivity suite.
- By David Nagel
- January 15, 2008
A year after its initial release, Microsoft today announced it is shipping the first service pack for Office 2007.
- By James E. Powell
- December 11, 2007
The software giant attributes strong first quarter to sales of Halo 3, Windows and Office.
- By The Associated Press
- October 26, 2007
Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 spreadsheet program is going to have to relearn part of its multiplication table.
- By The Associated Press
- September 28, 2007
Office 2008 for Mac will be available in the U.S. beginning next Jan. 15.
- By Keith Ward
- September 25, 2007
The no-cost alternatives for Microsoft Office just keep growing: IBM announced yesterday that it is now offering Lotus Symphony, a free suite of "enterprise-grade" software featuring word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications for Windows and Linux.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 19, 2007
Microsoft Corp. today officially unveiled PerformancePoint Server 2007, its highly anticipated performance management (PM) software.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- September 19, 2007
Google Docs, which is trying to muscle in on Microsoft's Office suite, has released its PowerPoint counterpart, known as "Google Presentations."
- By Keith Ward
- September 18, 2007
Is Microsoft Office in danger of having real competition for the first time in a decade? That's the question being asked this week, as the battle for office productivity suites heats up on several fronts.
- By Keith Ward
- September 11, 2007
Microsoft's first attempt to gain acceptance for its Open XML (OOXML) document format from a critical standards body has failed.
- By Keith Ward
- September 04, 2007
Two years after announcing a somewhat vague software-distribution partnership, Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have clarified their tactics for jointly attacking Microsoft Corp. and its ubiquitous Office software.
- By The Associated Press
- August 16, 2007
Six of the patches fix critical vulnerabilities that could give an attacker full control of a machine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 14, 2007
The next version of Microsoft Office for the Mac platform has been delayed until next year.
- By Keith Ward
- August 02, 2007