IBM To Offer Web-Based Office Software

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Pilgrim Software Announces the Release
of its SmartAudit Offline Solution based
on Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003

Pilgrim Software Announces the Release
of its SmartAudit Offline Solution based
on Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 08/04/2004 02:39 AM
Pilgrim Software, Inc., the leading provider of Enterprise Quality and Compliance Management solutions, today announced the worldwide availability of SmartAudit Offline based on Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003. SmartAudit Offline is a new, separately licensed and packaged add-on to Pilgrim’s SmartAudit version 7.03.5 internal and external audit management solution. [PRWEB Aug 4, 2004]

Web-based Timesheet Provider Replicon
Inc. Launches Web-based Resource
Scheduling Software

Web-based Timesheet Provider Replicon
Inc. Launches Web-based Resource
Scheduling Software 04/06/2005 02:38 AM
Replicon’s Web Resource to Replace the use of Traditional Spreadsheets for Employee Project Scheduling [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]

BSNL to offer CLI-based Internet

BSNL to offer CLI-based Internet 09/16/2004 03:37 AM
The Hindu Sep 16 2004 7:33AM GMT

Celerus Networks® Unveils All-In-One
Wi-Fi Management Software Suite in a
Free Software License Package – Offer
Makes Wi-Fi More Affordable than Ever

Celerus Networks® Unveils All-In-One
Wi-Fi Management Software Suite in a
Free Software License Package – Offer
Makes Wi-Fi More Affordable than Ever 06/22/2005 02:31 AM
Celerus Networks ships its feature-rich Wi-Fi management software suite with a no-cost software license delivering unprecedented savings to network builders & managers. The wireless management package offers unsurpassed affordability coupled with comprehensive support services. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2005]

App Sys Mgr/Software Engineer for London
based Software House

App Sys Mgr/Software Engineer for London
based Software House 06/18/2004 04:11 PM
Best Recruitment Services - United Kingdom, London (2004-06-18)

AT&T to offer Internet-based phone
service

AT&T to offer Internet-based phone
service 12/11/2003 07:19 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 11 2003 6:20AM ET

DoCoMo to offer Linux-based 3G phones

DoCoMo to offer Linux-based 3G phones 12/02/2003 08:43 AM
Wireless Watch Japan Dec 2 2003 7:51AM ET

Hewlett-Packard To Offer Linux-based
Media Hub

Hewlett-Packard To Offer Linux-based
Media Hub 01/05/2005 06:31 PM

Symantec to offer Web-based Norton
AntiVirus console

Symantec to offer Web-based Norton
AntiVirus console 09/16/2004 09:38 AM
Symantec Corp. on Thursday announced plans to release a Web-based console to help system managers and network administrators to centrally administer Mac clients using Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 9.0. The Web console -- to be made available specifically to corporate and enterprise licensees of Norton AntiVirus software -- will allow administrators to distribute virus definitions and product updates on demand, install the Norton AntiVirus software itself, lock-down settings, push configuration changes, and maintain client data in a MySQL database. Symantec plans to release the Web console in November; customers who have Symantec's Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 8.x, Enterprise Edition 8.x and Corporate Edition 9.0 will receive information on how to get the software.

Why a Web-Based Microsoft Office is a
Great Idea

Why a Web-Based Microsoft Office is a
Great Idea 09/17/2004 10:22 PM
.NET Magazine Sep 18 2004 2:03AM GMT

ShinGinko To Offer IC Card-Based Online
Banking Service

ShinGinko To Offer IC Card-Based Online
Banking Service 04/08/2005 09:59 AM
Nni.nikkei.co.jp - Fri Apr 8, 12:29 pm GMT

Microsoft Soon to Offer Windows CE-Based
Infotainment System to Automakers

Microsoft Soon to Offer Windows CE-Based
Infotainment System to Automakers 04/19/2005 04:36 AM
Auto123.com Apr 19 2005 8:14AM GMT

Post Office to offer 'me too' telco
service

Post Office to offer 'me too' telco
service 07/02/2004 06:24 AM
C&W gets the gig

Chinese developer intros Java-based MS
Office competitor

Chinese developer intros Java-based MS
Office competitor 02/18/2004 10:49 AM
At this week's DEMO Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., Chinese software developer Evermore Software LLC introduced the English-language version of its Evermore Integrated Office, or EIOffice. The company is hoping to garner attention from customers that might otherwise consider Microsoft's seemingly ubiquitous Office application suite.

Voxeo and Paraxip Technologies Announce
Partnership to Offer Standards-Based IVR
and Call Control

Voxeo and Paraxip Technologies Announce
Partnership to Offer Standards-Based IVR
and Call Control 09/13/2004 03:17 AM
Partnership extends the reach and availability of CCXML and SIP-based call control for IVR solutions [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

New and Noteworthy: Is there a need for
CodeWeavers technology on Intel-based
Macs?; Office faces competition

New and Noteworthy: Is there a need for
CodeWeavers technology on Intel-based
Macs?; Office faces competition 06/24/2005 09:28 PM
MacFixIt Jun 25 2005 1:15AM GMT

MilleniumTechnology.biz, a Baltimore, MD
based telecommunications and technology
company, is proud to offer Dish Network
Satellite TV for the Maryland area.

MilleniumTechnology.biz, a Baltimore, MD
based telecommunications and technology
company, is proud to offer Dish Network
Satellite TV for the Maryland area. 08/07/2004 03:45 AM
At MilleniumTechnology.biz we strive to save the residential and business customer money on their telecommunications and technology needs. More information can be found at the companies website.http://www.milleniumtechnology.biz or by calling the owner toll free at 888-838-6930. [PRWEB Aug 7, 2004]

Bharosa, Inc., the First Web-based
Solution to Offer Comprehensive
Protection against Online Identity Theft
Announces First Round Funding and
Initial Customers

Bharosa, Inc., the First Web-based
Solution to Offer Comprehensive
Protection against Online Identity Theft
Announces First Round Funding and
Initial Customers 04/18/2005 02:46 AM
Bharosa v.Crypt™ users manipulate images to create and send data in specific ways known only to the user and their institution offering superior protection against the rising risks of Phishing, Trojan and Proxy-based attacks. [PRWEB Apr 18, 2005]

AOL to offer antispyware software

AOL to offer antispyware software 01/05/2004 10:29 PM
America Online will announce on Tuesday the addition of antispyware software as part of future upgrades to its flagship online service.

CA revives free AV software offer

CA revives free AV software offer 11/18/2003 05:30 PM
Microsoft supplies 'kiss of life'

Educational software on offer online

Educational software on offer online 01/10/2004 01:37 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Jan 9 2004 11:22PM ET

Comcast to Offer Microsoft Software

Comcast to Offer Microsoft Software 05/21/2004 03:52 AM
Los Angeles Times May 21 2004 7:14AM GMT

IBM plans Web-based desktop software

IBM plans Web-based desktop software 05/09/2004 10:39 PM
Big Blue on Monday is expected to announce new software intended to take on Microsoft in the market for desktop business applications.

ISP based Software/Systems developer

ISP based Software/Systems developer 04/27/2004 10:04 AM
REDNET - United Kingdom, Buckinghamshire, High Wycombe (2004-04-27)

Agent-Based Software Development

Agent-Based Software Development 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
Agent-Based Software Development
http://www.agentdevelopment.co m/

This new book offers a thorough and comprehensive explanation of the methods, tools, standards and techniques used to develop software using the agent-oriented approach. Meeting a long unmet need to support the agent-software development community with practical guidance in this cutting-edge area, this authoritative resource helps you to: understand the issues in developing agent-based software, select tools and techniques that aid in the development of agent systems, and become familiar with important methodologies that can be used to build different types of agent systems.

A thorough and practical introduction to agent-oriented software engineering, the book covers four major areas: the basic concepts of agents that motivate agent technology, available technological support for deployment of agent systems, industry-relevant initiatives, and agent methodologies for agent system development. Addressing issues of
direct relevance to specific development and task objectives, as well as to industry-wide initiatives, the work is essential for those wanting to understand more about the commercial realities of agent-based computing.

GRT unveils new insurance-based software

GRT unveils new insurance-based software 04/11/2005 11:37 PM
Computer Business Review Apr 12 2005 4:16AM GMT

Software Lets You Be in Office but Not

Software Lets You Be in Office but Not 12/22/2003 12:38 PM
AP via Newsday Dec 22 2003 12:14PM ET

Apple office software seems likely

Apple office software seems likely 01/04/2005 02:56 PM
IGG Software has dropped the name "iWork" from its product lineup. Is Apple about to pick it up?

Software lets you be in office but not

Software lets you be in office but not 12/22/2003 11:22 AM
Boston Globe Dec 22 2003 10:49AM ET

Mac Design, You Software team up for
subscription offer

Mac Design, You Software team up for
subscription offer 07/27/2004 02:29 PM
Mac Design Magazine and You Software have joined forces on a new money saving offer...

Software Tutors Offer Help and
Customized Hints

Software Tutors Offer Help and
Customized Hints 09/15/2004 06:57 PM
New York Times Sep 15 2004 11:38PM GMT

Nokia To Offer BlackBerry Software
(NewsFactor)

Nokia To Offer BlackBerry Software
(NewsFactor) 09/07/2004 06:12 PM
NewsFactor - Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) (RIM) and mobile operating-system consortium Symbian have signed a deal that will enable BlackBerry Connect to run on Symbian-based Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Series 80 mobile devices, such as the 9500 Communicator.

Web services software vendors offer SOA
package

Web services software vendors offer SOA
package 09/20/2004 12:34 PM
Web services software vendors AmberPoint and Systinet are now selling an integrated suite of software for service-oriented architectures, featuring products from both companies.

IBM Unveils Server-Based Software Model

IBM Unveils Server-Based Software Model 05/10/2004 03:04 PM
The company aims to take on Microsoft with its new middleware, which extends applications to virtually any client a customer chooses.

SAP Earnings Jump Based on U.S. Software
Sales

SAP Earnings Jump Based on U.S. Software
Sales 04/22/2004 02:49 PM
SAP reports a significant increase in earnings for the first quarter thanks to stellar U.S. sales.

I.B.M. Takes Aim at Microsoft With
Server-Based Software

I.B.M. Takes Aim at Microsoft With
Server-Based Software 05/10/2004 12:07 AM
I.B.M. plans to announce a software strategy for corporate desktop personal computers and hand-held devices - one that is firmly anchored in the company's strength in data centers.

Microsoft to Offer Office Source Code
Under Shared Source

Microsoft to Offer Office Source Code
Under Shared Source 09/20/2004 10:45 AM
Microsoft is releasing its Microsoft Office desktop source code to qualifying international governments and agencies via the company's Shared Source licensing program.

Open Office Software Development Kit
1.1.0

Open Office Software Development Kit
1.1.0 12/16/2003 04:06 PM
An add-on for OpenOffice.

RUMOR: Apple office software seems
likely

RUMOR: Apple office software seems
likely 01/05/2005 02:07 PM
A small Macintosh software developer has renamed an application it had been calling iWork, lending credence to rumors that Apple plans to introduce office software of the same name.

IGG Software, which has marketed a time-billing application as iWork, has changed the program's name to iBiz. The change, which is reflected on the company's Web site, follows reports on rumor sites that Apple plans to offer its own suite of word processing and presentation software.

Enthusiast site ThinkSecret reported last week that a product from Apple called iWork would include an updated version of Apple's presentation software, Keynote, and a new word processing program, which the site says will be called Pages. The site predicted Apple would unveil the product at next week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Such a program would be an interesting move for Apple, which has for years kept its office software ambitions limited, counting instead on Microsoft to produce a Mac version of Microsoft Office.

News source: C|Net News.com

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Office 2003 Update: Redistributable
Primary Interop Assemblies

Office 2003 Update: Redistributable
Primary Interop Assemblies 04/19/2005 12:25 PM
The Office 2003 Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA) redistributable is a Microsoft Windows Installer package that contains the Primary Interop Assemblies for Office 2003 products. Specifically, the redistributable contains the PIAs for the following products:

• Microsoft Office Access 2003
• Microsoft Office Excel 2003
• Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
• Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
• Microsoft Office Project 2003
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
• Microsoft Office Visio 2003
• Microsoft Office Word 2003

In addition, the redistributable package contains additional PIAs which are associated with many of these products.

Office Communicator

Office Communicator 03/14/2005 05:32 PM

Office Communicator: The Web Generation

Office Communicator: The Web Generation 06/22/2005 02:47 AM
Microsoft is readying a Web-based version of its Office Communicator instant-messaging client, company officials said on Tuesday. The first private beta of the new IM app will go to testers on July 15; the final is due out before the end of this year, the Softies say.

Handling Complex COM Objects with
Interop Assemblies or "Why Has My Menu
Button Stopped Working in Office?"

Handling Complex COM Objects with
Interop Assemblies or "Why Has My Menu
Button Stopped Working in Office?" 09/16/2004 01:39 AM
Can't get your menu button to work consistently? Are you wondering how .NET manages the memory of COM objects you instantiate by using the .NET Framework? Peter Vogel discusses some of the common issues that occur when handling COM objects within the .NET Framework and provides strategies for addressing them.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for
the Microsoft Office System
Redistributable Package Beta 2 (x86)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for
the Microsoft Office System
Redistributable Package Beta 2 (x86) 04/18/2005 07:13 AM
VSTO2005 beta redistributable package is the most recent update to the VSTO redistributable runtime and includes everything you need to run applications developed using the .NET Framework and Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003.

Microsoft Office LCS 2005 Beta
Nominations

Microsoft Office LCS 2005 Beta
Nominations 05/08/2004 10:36 AM

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the
Microsoft Office System

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the
Microsoft Office System 03/24/2005 04:18 AM
SYS-CON Media Mar 24 2005 8:24AM GMT

SWING Integrator 4 Provides Automated
Document Assembly with Notes, Office,
and PDF

SWING Integrator 4 Provides Automated
Document Assembly with Notes, Office,
and PDF 06/02/2004 03:44 AM
SWING Software today announced the availability of SWING Integrator 4 – innovative document automation software for Lotus Notes and Domino developers. SWING Integrator 4 helps developers deliver applications that automatically assemble MS Office and PDF documents, based on user-defined rules. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2004]

Cyber Law to be submitted to National
Assembly in 2005

Cyber Law to be submitted to National
Assembly in 2005 08/17/2004 02:01 AM
BVOM.com Aug 17 2004 5:52AM GMT

Avocent Introduces the World's First
Wireless Solution for KVM Switching and
Video Broadcasting: AutoView Wireless
controls sixteen servers from two
wireless consoles, nominated for Best of
Interop award at NetWorld+Interop 2004

Avocent Introduces the World's First
Wireless Solution for KVM Switching and
Video Broadcasting: AutoView Wireless
controls sixteen servers from two
wireless consoles, nominated for Best of
Interop award at NetWorld+Interop 2004 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
Avocent Corporation (NASDAQ: AVCT) today announced the AutoView Wireless, the world’s first wireless keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) switching and video broadcasting solution. The AutoView Wireless is a finalist in the Network Server and Peripheral category in the Best of Interop Awards competition at NetWorld+Interop. Award finalists were selected by CMP Media’s CRN, Network Computing, VARBusiness and Network Magazine. [PRWEB May 10, 2004]

Microsoft Readies Web-Based Communicator

Microsoft Readies Web-Based Communicator 06/22/2005 02:18 AM
Microsoft is looking to extend the reach of its Office Communicator 2005 instant-messaging (IM) client via a new version that will be completely Web-based. Microsoft is set to kick off on July 15 a first private beta release of what it's currently calling the "Office Communicator Web Access" client, company officials said on Tuesday. The company expects to ship the final version before the end of calendar 2005, officials said.

Communicator Web Access is similar to Microsoft's Outlook Web Access product, said Anoop Gupta, the corporate vice president in charge of Microsoft's Real-Time Collaboration Business Unit. "People need reach and access from a lot of places," Gupta told Microsoft Watch, in explaining why Microsoft decided to do a Web-based version of Communicator Office Communicator 2005, code-named "Istanbul," is Microsoft's integrated client for IM, voice, video, telephony and Web conferencing.


News source: Microsoft Watch

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IBM: Notes Domino Express 'Our Microsoft
Killer'

IBM: Notes Domino Express 'Our Microsoft
Killer' 07/14/2004 01:30 AM
CRN Canada Jul 14 2004 6:13AM GMT

Microsoft Office Data Assistant for
Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003

Microsoft Office Data Assistant for
Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2003 05/27/2004 03:09 AM
The Data Assistant for Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2003 provides an easy-to-use method of inserting and managing graphical data objects such as Visio drawings, and Excel charts and named ranges into PowerPoint presentations. There are three basic features for the tool: inserting graphical data objects into PowerPoint, saving graphical data objects for future use, and retrieving saved graphical data objects for reuse. Because the Data Assistant creates a connection between PowerPoint and the host application of the data object (Excel or Visio), you have the option of inserting the data object as it was saved or refreshing it to reflect any changes that were made to the data object.

Microsoft Office 2000 to Microsoft
Office 2003 Migration Issues

Microsoft Office 2000 to Microsoft
Office 2003 Migration Issues 04/25/2004 11:22 AM

Microsoft Drops Anti-Virus Support for
Domino on Unix

Microsoft Drops Anti-Virus Support for
Domino on Unix 06/22/2005 02:47 AM
On the same day that Microsoft announced it completed its purchase of anti-virus software vendor Sybari Software, the company also revealed that it plans to discontinue immediately new sales of Sybari's Antigen for Unix and Linux.

Microsoft Exchange Expected To Widen
Lead Over IBM Lotus Domino

Microsoft Exchange Expected To Widen
Lead Over IBM Lotus Domino 06/28/2004 10:07 AM
The Radicati Group, Inc.'s latest whitepaper, "IBM Lotus & Microsoft -- Corporate Messaging Market Analysis," examines the messaging strategies and product plans of market leaders IBM Lotus and Microsoft. Over the next four years, IBM Lotus' corporate messaging software installed base market share is expected to fall sharply from 24% to 17%. The installed base of Lotus Domino will peak in 2005 and decline thereafter, while the study predicts that the new Workplace platform will not experience significant uptake for several years to come.

Microsoft Office XP to Microsoft Office
2003 Migration Issues

Microsoft Office XP to Microsoft Office
2003 Migration Issues 04/25/2004 11:22 AM

Office 2003 Tool: FabriKam – The
Microsoft Office System Solutions
Learning Platform

Office 2003 Tool: FabriKam – The
Microsoft Office System Solutions
Learning Platform 08/09/2004 02:30 AM
The CHM provides an overview of the FabriKam project and how to use the FabriKam virtual PC environment and documentation to best learn about the rich potential of the Microsoft Office System as a development platform. Each solution and platform component section described the salient points that help developers focus on areas of interest.

OpenOSX Office 1.5.1: Microsoft Office
ALternative Has Some Hits, Many Misses

OpenOSX Office 1.5.1: Microsoft Office
ALternative Has Some Hits, Many Misses 04/05/2005 01:27 AM

By Rob Griffiths, Macworld

Microsoft To Bridge Office, Back Office
Apps

Microsoft To Bridge Office, Back Office
Apps 01/26/2004 01:10 AM
Microsoft continues to build bridges between Office desktop apps and reservoirs of back-office data. The "Information Worker Bridge" project now under way seeks to make it easier for integrators or in-house developers to make Excel or Word de-facto front ends for back-end accounting, ERP or other applications, sources said. In theory, this would take back-office integration beyond ODBC drivers and InfoPath, the Office application that lets people build dynamic forms on their desktops that tap into back-office XML data.

C-Search Announces the Release of
C-Search and C-Search for Domino.Doc
R1.1 – Search Multiple Domino Databases
across Multiple Servers Simultaneously

C-Search Announces the Release of
C-Search and C-Search for Domino.Doc
R1.1 – Search Multiple Domino Databases
across Multiple Servers Simultaneously 04/16/2005 01:58 AM
C-Search today announced the release of C-Search and C-Search for Domino.Doc R1.1. - C-Search brings for the first time web crawling techniques to the Domino domain allowing organizations to build a fast and lightweight index of quality materials. Unlike web crawlers however, C-Search has built in design and location awareness to ensure users are presented with meaningful results and to guarantee that users are always routed to the nearest instance of information from the search results. [PRWEB Apr 16, 2005]

Microsoft Office 2003 Customers Boost
Productivity and Business Insight With
the Availability of Two New Office
Business Intelligence Accelerators

Microsoft Office 2003 Customers Boost
Productivity and Business Insight With
the Availability of Two New Office
Business Intelligence Accelerators 06/02/2004 12:06 PM
Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of two new Office 2003 Business Intelligence (BI) Accelerators, the Microsoft® Office Business Scorecards Accelerator and the Microsoft Office Excel Add-in for SQL Server (TM) Analysis Services. Designed for and built on the Microsoft Office System and Windows Server System (TM) , the Office BI Accelerators provide customers and partners with increased access to data that is critical to maximizing business performance. Information workers and industry partners can also use the accelerators to assess performance in real time and reshape strategy and redeploy resources as market conditions change, staying one step ahead of their competition. By taking advantage of existing Microsoft technology investments, the accelerators are a cost-effective way for end users and partners to increase their business insight and automate formerly manual business processes, providing greater efficiency, productivity and enhanced decision-making.

Microsoft Delivers Latest Visual Studio
2005 and SQL Server 2005 Releases

Microsoft Delivers Latest Visual Studio
2005 and SQL Server 2005 Releases 04/18/2005 11:14 AM
Microsoft Corp. today announced availability of Visual Studio® 2005 Beta 2, Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 Beta 2 and the SQL Server (TM) 2005 April Community Technology Preview (CTP), the latest milestone in delivering these products to customers. Together, the products provide a deeply integrated development and data management platform, enabling customers to utilize existing skills and familiar tools to harness data in powerful new ways that increase productivity and efficiency. Several early adopters such as ABS-CBN Interactive, ORF and Townsend Analytics Ltd. have deployed these products in their production environments to reap the benefits of close tool and database integration. Because of broad customer demand to work with these prerelease products today, Microsoft also announced the Microsoft Go-Live license program for customers interested in deploying Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition immediately. Microsoft and multiple partners today also announced plans to provide customers with educational resources that will help them prepare for the launch of these two products.

Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2005
Beta Two, SQL Server 2005 Preview

Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2005
Beta Two, SQL Server 2005 Preview 04/18/2005 11:49 PM
Information Week Apr 19 2005 4:14AM GMT

Silect Software Launches Health Reporter
2005 for Microsoft Operations Manager
2005

Silect Software Launches Health Reporter
2005 for Microsoft Operations Manager
2005 09/02/2004 07:30 PM

Samples for Visual Studio Tools for
Office, Version 2005 Beta 1

Samples for Visual Studio Tools for
Office, Version 2005 Beta 1 07/01/2004 03:52 AM
This download contains code samples for Visual Studio Tools for Office, Version 2005 Beta 1.

Infopulse Ukraine Announced Opening of
German Representation Office on CeBIT
2005

Infopulse Ukraine Announced Opening of
German Representation Office on CeBIT
2005 03/25/2005 06:54 AM
The 13th worldwide largest ITC event CeBIT 2005 (March 10-16) has finished. The number of CeBIT 2005 participants was over 6,270, representing 69 countries. The total number of visitors was over 480,000. More than 9,000 journalists from 65 countries were accredited. The CeBIT 2005 exhibition floor-space exceeded 308,000 square meters. [PRWEB Mar 25, 2005]

Q&A: Microsoft Announces Availability of
XML Schema for Microsoft Office Visio
2003

Q&A: Microsoft Announces Availability of
XML Schema for Microsoft Office Visio
2003 04/15/2004 11:48 AM
A Microsoft XML architect explains how and why customers and partners will take advantage of an XML reference schema used by Microsoft's Visio data-diagramming tool. The schema is being added to an open, royalty-free documentation and license program for Office 2003.

Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office
PowerPoint 2003 Version 2

Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office
PowerPoint 2003 Version 2 07/20/2004 11:16 PM
Microsoft Producer 2003 for PowerPoint 2003 is the next release of this very popular add-in for PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2002. Producer 2003 provides users with many powerful new features that make it easier to synchronize audio, video, slides, and images to create engaging and effective rich-media presentations. Producer 2003 gives content and media professionals, as well as everyday PowerPoint users a host of new content authoring features.

SOAP Interop by Passage

SOAP Interop by Passage 07/30/2004 03:56 PM

I spent the last couple of days designing a web service API.  Last time I did that was more than six months ago, so I forgot a lot of little tricks and gotchas which I had to relearn.  To save you some trouble, here are some notes:

Getting Started

Currently, Visual Studio .NET is the best environment to start in for web service design.  So I started a Web Service project in VS.NET 2003, wrote my API classes in C#, and launched the service to get WSDL.  I also wrote a .NET client to polish the API.  BTW, VS.NET generates doc/lit style web service which is usually what you want.

I used only simple datatypes to avoid interop issues later.Complex datatypes should be used only if the benefits are clear because most binding generators will map them to classes which have to be instantiated on both side.  You might want to go easy on the Enums too because VS.NET uses enum symbol names as string literals.  I dislike verbose XML, so I used string flags (similar to fopen mode flags) instead as a compromise.

Interop by Passage

Now that I had a WSDL, I fed it to Apache Axis's WSDL2Java tool to generate Java bindings.  I ran into several interop issues with Axis 1.1 so I ended up using Axis 1.2beta2 after a few hours of agony.  Since the service I was designing will be implemented in Java, I generated server-side bindings first and hosted them in Tomcat.

Once the Axis-based service was running, I added a Web Reference to it in my C# client and made sure results from the Axis-based service matched the .NET-based service.  Note that at this point, you have two WSDL, one from each side.  You'll eventually have to let one of them go depending on where the service will be hosted in a Java web server or ASP.NET, but it's nice to have both to clients in other languages.

IBM To Offer Web-Based Office Software

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