Tag: Office

  • Google Apps Premier Edition Takes Aim at the Enterprise

    Google Apps Premier Edition Takes Aim at the Enterprise

    John Pallatto

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    After months of testing, Google is ready to see whether businesses large and small are ready to pay to use its online suite of basic business applications, including spreadsheets, e-mail, word processing, calendars and instant messaging. Google, which has steadily transformed itself from a search engine pioneer into a data access, Internet advertising and business… Read more

  • Windows and Office: The Past, Present and Future

    Windows and Office: The Past, Present and Future

    Peter Galli

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    Windows Vista and Office 2007 finally saw the light of day on Jan. 30. Chris Capossela, who manages the Microsoft Office System family of products, talked to eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli about the products, the experience and the future. The Office 2007 System brings some 34 Office suites, programs, servers, services and tools. Microsoft… Read more

  • Microsoft Offers Indirect Partners an Incentive to Preinstall Office

    Microsoft Offers Indirect Partners an Incentive to Preinstall Office

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft is trying to incentivize its largest indirect hardware partners and system builders to preinstall Office 2007 on their systems, before these are sold to resellers, by offering them a referral payment when end users activate the license on those machines. Qualified Microsoft partners were invited to participate in the Referral Payment Pilot Program for… Read more

  • Vista’s Nine Most Annoying Features

    Vista’s Nine Most Annoying Features

    Lance Ulanoff

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    Microsoft Windows Vista is gonna be with us for a long time. It’s a fine operating system, so that’s good news. Still, riding shotgun with all of Vista’s charms are its many little annoyances. Here are nine that stick in my craw. 1. Who Am I and Who Are You Windows Vista tries hard to… Read more

  • Microsoft to Release Three Office SDKs

    Microsoft to Release Three Office SDKs

    Peter Galli

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    Microsoft is releasing software development kits for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and the Microsoft Office Project 2007 platform on Jan. 23. The kits, which provide a complete platform API reference, also give technical guidance and sample code to help developers create Office business applications, a Microsoft spokesperson told eWEEK. These… Read more

  • New Office, Windows Mean (Small) Business

    Joe Wilcox

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    Microsoft did not really emphasize such benefits at the November 30 business launch of Windows Vista, which I found surprising. Microsoft last released new versions of Office and Windows together in 1995. Simultaneous release is an unprecedented marketing opportunity: Businesses upgrading operating systems typically go to a newer productivity suite about the same time. For… Read more