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
With this week's Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft kicked off its monthly patching exercise with three critical security bulletins.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 10, 2007
Massachusetts has decided that Microsoft's latest format may meet its standards.
- By Keith Ward
- July 02, 2007
Microsoft said it expects to have Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007, its virtual collaboration and conferencing software, released to manufacturing later next month, with availability some time this fall. The company made the announcement at the Tech Ed Conference taking place this week in Orlando, Florida.
- By Michael Domingo
- June 05, 2007
When Google announced its latest foray into an area of software in which Microsoft holds dominance, it was hard to miss the swipes aimed at Redmond. The search giant has decided that it will no longer confine itself to online-only technologies, but wants to live in the offline world and compete with Microsoft there as well.
- By Keith Ward
- June 01, 2007
A sneak peek at the upcoming Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, the channel's biggest networking opportunity of the year.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 01, 2007
Salesforce.com Inc.'s stock price climbed by more than 4 percent Monday in response to a report that the online software pioneer is poised to team up with Internet search leader Google Inc. in a double-barreled attack on Microsoft Corp.
- By The Associated Press
- May 21, 2007
Microsoft is supporting a chief rival to its Office suite for approval to a national standards board.
- By Keith Ward
- May 17, 2007