Tag: Office

  • Microsoft Readies New Office Bridging Tool

    Microsoft Readies New Office Bridging Tool

    Channel Insider Staff

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    Microsoft is readying a new tool that is designed to connect Microsoft Office applications to back-end enterprise systems. The tool, called the “Information Bridge Framework,” or IBF, will debut at the company’s Tech Ed 2004 conference in San Diego next week, sources said. IBF is designed to connect Web services to the Office client with… Read more

  • Office 2003 vs. OpenOffice.Org

    Office 2003 vs. OpenOffice.Org

    Jason Brooks

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    In recent years, open-source alternatives to Office have matured to the point where IT managers are beginning to investigate the viability of moving from the Microsoft Corp. suite to a license-free alternative. So when eWEEK Corporate Partner Ed Benincasa shared his desire to perform a user-based comparison between the OpenOffice.org project’s OpenOffice.org suite and Microsoft’s… Read more

  • Microsoft MVPs to Get Office 12 Sneak Peek

    Microsoft MVPs to Get Office 12 Sneak Peek

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    Early next month, Microsoft is set to share its vision for its next-generation Office, Windows, database and other products with hundreds of its Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). MVPs are the independent technology buffs who are recognized experts in one or more Microsoft technologies. They complement Microsoft executives, product managers and developers in tasks ranging from… Read more

  • Sun Extends Office Alternative to Solaris x86 Platform

    Sun Extends Office Alternative to Solaris x86 Platform

    Peter Galli

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    Sun Microsystems Inc. on Wednesday released a version of its StarOffice 7 office productivity suite for the Solaris x86 platform. StarOffice 7 for the Solaris operating system x86 platform is priced at $79.95 and is available via download. The software is targeted at those customers wanting an alternative to the Microsoft Windows desktop solution. Today’s… Read more

  • Microsoft Issues ‘Critical’ Office 2003 Patch

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    Two weeks after launching its Office 2003 desktop app suite, Microsoft is patching it already. At least it’s not a security problem this time around. Instead, the patch protects against inadvertent data loss when opening files last saved under Office 2000. But still …. Read more

  • Microsoft: Opportunities Abound for Office Partners

    Peter Galli

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    Jeff Raikes, Microsoft Corp.’s group vice president of productivity and business services highlight the opportunities the Office System family of products represents to Microsoft’s partners at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. Raikes stressed that there is a great number of opportunities available to the several thousand attendees, especially now that Office is no… Read more