Besides Office 2003 Professional, which includes Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Access, Microsoft also will offer betas of the FrontPage website creation and management application, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook with Business Contact Manager...
But perhaps more importantly, once a company integrates Office into its practices, competitors will face a really tough sell. First, it helps boost sales of Office and other Microsoft server software, such as Exchange and SharePoint.
The software has been sold as an add-on to Microsoft's SharePoint web portal software because it lets mobile workers get updates on ongoing projects without having to use a virtual private network. Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove...
Solutions in the same vein have been made available before: the basic version of Microsoft SharePoint bundled with Windows Server 2003 enables some document sharing, and Microsoft's new Office suite will have enhanced collaboration features.
The Whale products will be complementary to Microsoft's existing secure access technology in Windows Server and its Internet Security and Acceleration Server, the software giant said. Whale has been a Microsoft partner since 2002, and the company...
Microsoft's BI strategy also extends to combining Office 2007 with SharePoint which will form the basis of a federated portal providing wide-ranging data access. But will this ever come to pass? Quocirca's Louella Fernandes explains.