Tag: Office

  • Swelling Installed Base Brings Challenges to Microsoft

    Swelling Installed Base Brings Challenges to Microsoft

    Peter Galli

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    As Microsoft heads into 2007, the company faces a number of ongoing threats and challenges, most notably getting its large installed base to upgrade to the latest wave of products. “The larger the installed base gets, the harder it is to move, and the longer it takes to transition,” Al Gillen, vice president of research… Read more

  • CompTIA Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

    CompTIA Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

    John Hazard

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    Robert G. Parsons first realized he needed some guidance on where his business was headed when he began hiring young sales representatives a few months ago to push the products and services of his company, Automated Office Solutions, a VAR in Evansville, Ohio. The firm had seen a dip in profitability proportional to the dip… Read more

  • CompUSA to Sell Vista, Office 2007, Nov. 30, Ahead of General Release

    John Hazard

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    Retail chain CompUSA will sell Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007 Nov. 30 alongside resellers and OEM partners and ahead of the general public release, planned for January 30, the software maker announced Nov. 13. Windows Vista Business and Microsoft Office Small Business 2007 will be available at select CompuUSA stores as part of Microsoft… Read more

  • Office Live Makes Online Presence Known

    Office Live Makes Online Presence Known

    Anne Chen

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    With the official launch of Office Live, Microsoft will introduce several enhancements to the Web-based service aimed at helping small businesses develop an online presence. The service, which Microsoft has been beta testing since February, will go live on Nov. 15 with public availability in the United States. At the same time, Office Live betas… Read more

  • OpenApple: Apple Takes on Office, Gently

    OpenApple: Apple Takes on Office, Gently

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Apple will step on yet another of Microsoft’s toes early next year when the Mac maker unveils the next version of its iWork productivity suite, complete with a new spreadsheet application. Sources report that iWork ’07 will gain this new third component, code-named Lasso, which will go to bat against Microsoft Excel in the consumer… Read more

  • Vista Enters Home Stretch with RC2 Release

    Vista Enters Home Stretch with RC2 Release

    Peter Galli

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    The long and oft-delayed journey toward the release of Windows Vista entered the home stretch Oct. 6 when Microsoft released what is likely the final test build, Release Candidate 2. “Microsoft expects the RC2 build to be the last interim release before the product is released to manufacturing. As we stated from the beginning of… Read more