They also come with the OpenOffice productivity suite, a package which includes applications for word processing, presentations, spreadsheets and Web browsing. Microsoft is investing in the development of a tailored and limited version of its...
The "critical update", released late on Tuesday, applies to three of the four major applications in Office 2003 - the Word word processing program, the PowerPoint presentation application and the Excel spreadsheet software, according to a...
The company also updated its PowerPoint templates and added new transitions that are designed to give Office-created presentations a less dated feel, Sommer said. As previously reported, Office 2004 adds a number of new features, including a new...
Enthusiast site ThinkSecret reported last week that a product from Apple called iWork would include an updated version of Apple's presentation software, Keynote, and a new word processing program, which the site says will be called Pages.
The Office rival includes the Keynote presentation program, which can read and write to Microsoft's PowerPoint format, and Pages, a word-processing program. Word that Apple was buying SchemaSoft first came in a report on Mac enthusiast site...
In addition to threatening two pillars of the Microsoft Office hegemony, it's now going after PowerPoint. The company is adding a feature to its Docs & Spreadsheets web-hosted software that will enable people to create presentations and slide shows.