Microsoft has said it will facilitate hosting office productivity software over the Internet - just days after Sun Microsystems announced plans to do the same. In a press conference, Microsoft president, Steve Ballmer, declined to say when the...
Some important decisions and directions are taken at meetings (more are made outside, but we are not currently concerned with those). These were tried out in meetings of over six people. A great deal has been researched and written about behaviour...
For example, Longhorn would file all documents and contacts so as to be reached en masse from any other application, it could screen incoming calls or it could automatically arrange meetings and online conferences.
Barley said: "[The software] doesn't provide all the answers but we are asking the right questions. Microsoft has launched the latest version of one of its flagship products - Microsoft Office 2003. As well as bundling corporate-friendly tools...
The statement said: "Fasthosts has understood, and has had confirmed to it, that the facilitation of this approval is through the production of an addendum to the current SPLA, a decision confirmed in meetings between Microsoft European SPLA...
Beyond questions of fitness for purpose, there are bigger concerns about a standards body making decisions that could perpetuate an effective monopoly - in this case, Microsoft Office on the desktop. Cooler heads have wisely prevailed, argues Dale...