Novell is marketing its Linux Desktop suite in a segmented fashion and not seeking to unseat the millions of Microsoft Office programs already installed, according to company executives. Looking to tap into discontent with Microsoft, Novell is set...
By creating more custom programs around Office, Microsoft hopes to drive potential upgrades to Office System 2003, which supports XML-based Web services protocols that simplify the process of getting data from other applications.
Rather, he said, the medium itself will shift, just as email and Web browsing evolved once they became mainstream business tools. In the early days, workers used an array of floppy disks to shuttle documents created with the programs from...
While Microsoft's Excel and Word programs already offer some XML compatibility, the new formats will bring those applications, and PowerPoint, into a "full fidelity" version of the standard, said Takeshi Numoto, senior director for the Microsoft...
One of the things that Microsoft is showing at its partner conference is a set of tools to add presence (a knowledge of how someone can be reached) into a wide range of programs. With this immediate offering, however, we're providing a solution...
IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready to take on Microsoft Office. Although Microsoft Office remains the leading productivity suite with about 95 per cent of the market by revenue, there...
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