Remember - let us know your thoughts by posting a Reader Comment. One word of caution, many people will tell us that changing in this way is hard, requires struggle and is fraught with failure. I invited him to nominate any single person he knew...
The software then scans the hard drive in the background to index the full text of Word, Outlook email, Excel files, text files, AOL chat logs, and saved web pages from Internet Explorer -- a process that typically takes between five and six hours.
And yet in two minutes it's possible to extract about 100MB of Word, Excel, PDF files - basically anything which might contain business data - and with a 60GB iPod you could probably have every business document in a medium sized firm.
Nakis Papadopoulos, joint-CEO at business intelligence specialist IMGroup, told silicon.com that CIOs have the tools at their disposal to provide the information the business needs for M&A deals. CIOs can play a vital role in the success of mergers...
We have to run Office and we have to allow Word, RTF, PowerPoint and Excel files through. F-Secure security expert Patrik Runald recently postulated that the perfect attack would be a zero-day attack using a rootkit-cloaked Trojan sent to an HR...
Learning about Word and Excel may help people in the world of work but it's not exactly going to make you lots of money. As one silicon.com reader pointed out, "Instead of teaching important stuff, like how computers work, what's inside the box...