The ability to work on word processing documents and spreadsheets is also common nowadays. Chief among these has been the rapid advance in synchronisation software and the creation of tools capable of managing and supporting these devices...
People think they can come in with StarOffice and replace Office because all they're getting is commodity word processing and a spreadsheet (through Office). We'll be able to read their XML in applications like Word and Excel," Barzdukas said.
Schwartz said it's a good idea, and Sun will add filters to the next versions of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org to allow interchange of documents based on WordML and ExcelML, Microsoft's respective word processing and spreadsheet dialects of XML.
The Office rival includes the Keynote presentation program, which can read and write to Microsoft's PowerPoint format, and Pages, a word-processing program. SchemaSoft's tools are capable of extracting data found in a variety of formats including...
The vulnerability affects systems running Windows 2000 and occurs when processing malicious Word 2000 documents, according to Secunia's security advisory. Symantec's advisory stated: "As with other recent [Microsoft] Office vulnerabilities...
Microsoft says it's not opposed to the idea of expanding into online document creation but that's not what small businesses are asking for, according to Marja Koopmans, the software company's director of channel and business strategy for Office Live.
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