Microsoft renovates Office suite as a Web service

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Microsoft Revamps Its Mac Office Suite

Microsoft Revamps Its Mac Office Suite 06/17/2004 06:05 PM
By Stephen Ballantyne, National Business Review (via MyAppleMenu)

Microsoft announces Office suite in
Hindi

Microsoft announces Office suite in
Hindi 02/16/2004 11:57 AM
Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. has launched its first offering developed specifically for the Indian market - Office Hindi. The product includes a Hindi language interface and supports nine Indian languages, empowering Indian users to leverage the global, standards-based Office applications suite in the language of their choice.

Microsoft Focusing Office Suite On Web
Services

Microsoft Focusing Office Suite On Web
Services 08/22/2004 03:16 PM
Microsoft, seeing it's growth beginning to slow in the office sector, plans to reinvent the way people work, communicate and collaborate on projects by retuning it's Office Suite toward web services.

"Office defines business productivity," Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman, told financial analysts in July. "The productivity area is probably the most important franchise that we have." Microsoft is banking on the Office initiative to help it fend off the challenge from open source software and other competitors.

"Microsoft is trying to make Office less a product and more like an online service," said Nate Root, an analyst for Forrester Research. "Adoption is going to be slow because Microsoft is trying to change the paradigm. It's a fundamental cultural change in how people think of and use Office." Because the next version of Windows, called Longhorn, may not ship until 2007, analysts say, the Office overhaul is needed in the meantime to deliver more Web services technology to the desktop. The new capabilities in the Office system are also needed to lure software developers to create more applications that run on Microsoft products.

Challengers like Sun Microsystems' StarOffice, OpenOffice.org and the Open Source Applications Foundation offer free or very inexpensive alternatives to Microsoft's Office programs. At the same time, Microsoft faces strong competitors in the collaboration field. IBM (NYSE: IBM) , for example, has sold Web conferencing, Web-based work spaces and other software for years, and leads in some market segments.

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C-suite Office Now Integrates With
Microsoft Outlook

C-suite Office Now Integrates With
Microsoft Outlook 04/10/2005 03:26 AM
C-suite Office Integration with Outlook allows customers to integrate all email transactions, calendar and tasks with no copying and pasting [PRWEB Apr 10, 2005]

New Password Recovery Tool for Microsoft
Office Suite Documents

New Password Recovery Tool for Microsoft
Office Suite Documents 01/05/2005 08:31 AM
Security Park Jan 5 2005 12:50PM GMT

Office Suite: MobiSystems Office
Standard Updated

Office Suite: MobiSystems Office
Standard Updated 06/21/2004 09:20 AM

Corel WordPerfect Office 12: The Other
Office Suite

Corel WordPerfect Office 12: The Other
Office Suite 04/29/2004 04:09 PM
While OpenOffice.org might get all the attention in the battle to unseat Microsoft Office, Corel's suite is the real number two in the market.

Microsoft Office 2003 gets first service
pack

Microsoft Office 2003 gets first service
pack 07/27/2004 10:58 AM
The Register Jul 27 2004 3:44PM GMT

Microsoft delivers Office Service Pack

Microsoft delivers Office Service Pack 07/27/2004 09:20 AM
Microsoft on Tuesday made available for download its first Service Pack for Office System 2003, which features fresh capabilities to its OneNote and InfoPath applications, along with improvements to overall speed and performance and a collection of previously announced security fixes.

Microsoft Plans Office 2003 Service Pack
For May

Microsoft Plans Office 2003 Service Pack
For May 01/05/2004 09:42 AM

Microsoft Releases First Service Pack
for Office 2003

Microsoft Releases First Service Pack
for Office 2003 07/27/2004 09:30 AM
While SP1 primarily rounds up security and bug fixes, it also enhances features in the 2003 versions of OneNote and InfoPath.

Microsoft readies first Office System
service pack

Microsoft readies first Office System
service pack 01/24/2004 12:09 AM
Users of Microsoft's Office System products released in October can expect the first service pack for the software in late June, Microsoft said Friday.

Microsoft Sets June Date For Office
Service Pack

Microsoft Sets June Date For Office
Service Pack 01/26/2004 04:10 PM
Microsoft will roll out the first service pack for its Office 2003 productivity suite in late June, the company has announced. Service packs, the moniker Microsoft puts on its collections of bug fixes, security enhancements, and updates, typically release six to nine months after a major product hits the streets. Office 2003 and other components of the Office System -- including InfoPath 2003, SharePoint Portal Server, and Project 2003 -- debuted in late October 2003.

Microsoft Office HTML Viewer Service for
Windows® SharePoint Services

Microsoft Office HTML Viewer Service for
Windows® SharePoint Services 12/19/2003 11:24 AM
The Office HTML Viewer server provides support for users who want to view the content of files on document libraries, but do not have Word, Excel, or PowerPoint from Office 97, or a newer release of Office, installed on their local computer.

Microsoft Office HTML Viewer Service for
Windows SharePoint Services

Microsoft Office HTML Viewer Service for
Windows SharePoint Services 12/29/2003 10:30 PM
The Office HTML Viewer server provides support for users who want to view the content of files on document libraries, but do not have Word, Excel, or PowerPoint from Office 97, or a newer release of Office, installed on their local computer.

New Password Recovery Tool for Microsoft
Office Suite Documents is Able to
Recover Passwords to Documents Created
in 14 Applications, and Supports More
Than 30 Types of Password Encryption.

New Password Recovery Tool for Microsoft
Office Suite Documents is Able to
Recover Passwords to Documents Created
in 14 Applications, and Supports More
Than 30 Types of Password Encryption. 12/24/2004 12:19 PM
ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. has released Advanced Office Password Recovery (AOPR), an application that allows business managers, information technology support administrators, and law enforcement officials to gain access to Microsoft(R) Office(R) password-protected documents, that have been accidentally or purposefully password protected. New product combines the latest and the most advanced cryptanalysis algorithms developed by Elcomsoft's research department. AOPR is capable of instantly recovering passwords for a wide range of Microsoft's business and office applications, including all components of MS Office, from the very first DOS versions to Office 2003 programs, including the ones for Windows, Mac, Pocket PC and localized versions. Over 30 different types of password encryption methods are supported. [PRWEB Dec 22, 2004]

Microsoft Expands Options to Bring More
Choices and Flexibility To Customers
Buying Its Office Live Meeting Service

Microsoft Expands Options to Bring More
Choices and Flexibility To Customers
Buying Its Office Live Meeting Service 08/11/2004 11:59 AM
Microsoft Corp. today announced new Microsoft® Office Live Meeting subscription models and naming to augment the existing options and provide a more flexible, customizable and expansive way for customers to deploy Live Meeting across their entire organization. In addition to its present Shared Seat and Per-Minute Web conferencing subscription options, Live Meeting now offers the following models:

Manux Office Suite

Manux Office Suite 12/10/2003 06:52 AM
we have liftoff

MaNuX Office Suite 0.1-rc1

MaNuX Office Suite 0.1-rc1 12/30/2003 02:51 PM
MaNuX is a LaTeX based office productivity suite

RealFleet's Amadama Office Suite

RealFleet's Amadama Office Suite 06/29/2004 01:39 PM

MoCoLoCo profiles the new suite of office products from Toshiba offshoot RealFleet, Amadama, including this pleasing translucent brown humidifier (the barrel) and this desktop audio system (the cube), as well as a phone, calculator, office chair, personal shredder, and more. Is brown translucent the next brushed aluminum? It's a odd, but increasingly popular design ethic, with sharp corners and muted colors that remind me of nothing less than the signature subdued office spaces of Blade Runner. It's as if the white version of the Amadama products are the positive, virtuous forms of the products, and the brown and brick versions are what they look like in the twilight.
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Read - Product Page (Japanese) [Amadama]

RealFleet's Amadana Office Suite

RealFleet's Amadana Office Suite 06/30/2004 06:10 AM

MoCoLoCo profiles the new suite of office products from Toshiba offshoot RealFleet, Amadana, including this pleasing translucent brown humidifier (the barrel) and this desktop audio system (the cube), as well as a phone, calculator, office chair, personal shredder, and more. Is brown translucent the next brushed aluminum? It's a odd, but increasingly popular design ethic, with sharp corners and muted colors that remind me of nothing less than the signature subdued office spaces of Blade Runner. It's as if the white version of the Amadana products are the positive, virtuous forms of the products, and the brown and brick versions are what they look like in the twilight.
Read [MoCoLoCo]
Read - Product Page (Japanese) [Amadama]

Apple's Rumored Office Suite

Apple's Rumored Office Suite 01/03/2005 02:32 PM

Mac Office Suite: Upgrade or Wait?

Mac Office Suite: Upgrade or Wait? 05/28/2004 05:03 PM
I'm trying to decide whether to move to the latest version of Microsoft's Mac OS version of Office. Some of...

What If Apple Does Launch Its Own Office
Suite?

What If Apple Does Launch Its Own Office
Suite? 01/06/2005 02:50 PM
What if Apple launches the rumored iWork '05 as an alternative to Microsoft's Office for the Mac at next week's Macworld show?

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

Sun To Sell Office Suite At Retail In
Japan

Sun To Sell Office Suite At Retail In
Japan 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
Sun Microsystems said Thursday that it would provide its StarOffice suite at up to 15,000 Japanese retail locations next month.

"Mac users now have an Office suite
equal to Windows'"

"Mac users now have an Office suite
equal to Windows'" 06/08/2004 08:54 AM

Rumors Swirl Around Apple Office Suite

Rumors Swirl Around Apple Office Suite 01/03/2005 09:53 PM
Exactly one week before Macworld begins in San Francisco, details have emerged about a rumored replacement to Apple's aging AppleWorks productivity suite. Called iWork '05 and code-named "Sugar," the new suite is expected include Keynote 2 and introduce a word processing application currently know as "Pages."

Sun's office suite rises to challenge

Sun's office suite rises to challenge 04/17/2004 07:36 AM
Los Angeles Times Apr 17 2004 11:51AM GMT

SolOffice, the Open Source Office Suite

SolOffice, the Open Source Office Suite 01/27/2004 05:20 PM
SolOffice Components in CVS have been updated.

Suite Relief: Office 2004 For Mac Is
Welcome Mix Of Fixes, Features

Suite Relief: Office 2004 For Mac Is
Welcome Mix Of Fixes, Features 05/22/2004 11:23 AM
Microsoft has a history of adding features instead of fixing problems. This release is genuinely the first I've seen in which the company foxused on both fronts. By Glenn Flesihman, Seattle Times (via MyAppleMenu)

From Wish List to Check List: Customer
Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
2003 Service Pack 1

From Wish List to Check List: Customer
Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
2003 Service Pack 1 04/20/2004 11:26 PM
In an academic setting, a score of 90 percent earns an automatic "A". By that measure, the team shaping Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 merits a similar high passing grade. When the innovative application debuted last October, it reflected the pioneering edge of the digital note-taking category. Today, Microsoft honed that edge by announcing the preview release of Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 (OneNote SP1). Ninety percent of the features included in the software update are a direct result of customer input and feedback -- with the remaining 10 percent coming from indirect customer feedback.

Mac Users Get Posh Office; Rival Suite
Pales In Comparison

Mac Users Get Posh Office; Rival Suite
Pales In Comparison 06/06/2004 01:45 AM
Office 2004 is the finest Microsoft suite in years. Unlike the Windows-only Office 2003, which packed in business-use tools that required office networks running Microsoft server software, Office 2004 emphasizes consumer convenience and usability. By Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post (via MyAppleMenu)

First Swahili office suite released in
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Wikinews

First Swahili office suite released in
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Wikinews 03/14/2005 06:09 PM
First Swahili office suite released in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Wikinews The suite contains more than 99% of the strings in Swahili. The ones that are left in English (less than 100 strings out of 18,000) will be worked out in the next release.

Apple to Announce ‘iWork’
Office Suite?

Apple to Announce ‘iWork’
Office Suite? 01/03/2005 05:43 PM

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0412expo3.html

Microsoft Office XP to Microsoft Office
2003 Migration Issues

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

Free Site License To Online Office Suite
For Indiana Residents

Free Site License To Online Office Suite
For Indiana Residents 06/24/2004 08:01 PM
Last year, we had a story about the city of Houston ditchin g Microsoft in favor of an online office suite called SimDesk. There hadn't been much news out of SimDesk since then, but Broadband Reports points us to a story about a new SimDesk deal with the state of Indiana to provide SimDesk for free to every state resident for at least two years (and possibly longer). It sounds similar to some "site licenses" that many companies offer their employees or which universities offer their students, though SimDesk isn't getting paid for this. Instead, they seem to be doing it in exchange for an investment. Microsoft (just as they did in Houston) is likely to cry foul, and complain that the state is competing unfairly against them. It's also unclear from the article how they prove who is an Indiana resident (the site appears to require an address, but I imagine that could be faked). Also, what happens if someone moves out of Indiana? Either way, the state could just point people to something like OpenOffice, which is already free if they really just wanted people to have a free office suite, instead of having to set up a special SimIndiana site.

Mac Users Get Posh Office; Rival Suite
Pales in Comparison (washingtonpost.com)

Mac Users Get Posh Office; Rival Suite
Pales in Comparison (washingtonpost.com) 06/06/2004 01:54 AM
washingtonpost.com - The two newest releases in the office-suite market come via strange routes.
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