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Microsoft Office stories: 14 news summaries
FARHAD MANJOO

Microsoft Office 2010:
Worthy, But Not Worth It

Why buy what you can get for free?

Nov 20, 09 9:45 AM CST
(Newser) - The latest edition of the Fantastic Four of productivity—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook—is worthy but not actually worth buying, writes Farhad Manjoo for Slate . Out next year but now available in a beta edition, Microsoft Office 2010 offers some definite improvements: It lets you preview how text or... More »

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Microsoft • competition • software • reviews • Microsoft Office • computers

 Microsoft to Give Away 
 New Web-Based Office 

Goes head-to-head with Google's online apps

Jul 13, 09 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft, the “king of paid software,” is going free with an online version of Office next year, Fortune reports. “The sleeping giant in Redmond has clearly woken up to the Internet threat,” writes Jon Fortt. Microsoft is risking “cannibalizing its own Office business,” but... More »

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Tech Review

iPhone Word Processor App Needs Some More Editing

Quickoffice nice, but wait to buy: Mossberg

May 7, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - At long last, the iPhone has a full-fledged office suite that can edit, format or create Microsoft Word or Excel documents. Third-party app Quickoffice has some nifty features—including old-fashioned cut/copy/paste, which the iPhone itself hasn’t implemented yet. But it’s missing a number of features, writes Walter Mossberg... More »

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Microsoft Will Sell Office
By $70 Subscription

Annual fee aims to bring penny-pinchers, pirates into fold; includes software updates

Jul 2, 08 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft will start selling its Office software package on a subscription model in mid-July, the AP reports. Instead of paying around $200 for Office, consumers can pay $70 a year, with no additional cost for new versions. In addition to the Office programs, the subscription bundle—named “Equipt”—... More »

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Microsoft • software • subscription • Microsoft Office • computer security • productivity applications • business models

Microsoft Promises to Add Access to Open Format

Interchangeable ODF will be available in '09 update; European regulators still wary

May 22, 08 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft says it will allow documents created in a competitor’s interchangeable format to open in its Office 2007 software package by mid-2009, but European officials are taking a wait-and-see attitude, the New York Times reports. “We have heard a lot of promises from Microsoft, but as of yet,... More »

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Microsoft • Microsoft Office • Adobe • PDFs • Open Document Format • ODF • OpenOffice

Web 2.0 Buying Will Hit $4.6B by 2013: Analyst

IBM, Microsoft likely to squeeze out smaller players in wikis, blogs

Apr 22, 08 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Spending on Web 2.0 technologies is ready to explode, according to a new report from Forrester Research. The market will reach $4.6 billion by 2013, the report predicts, as the technology starts to saturate the business world. To get there, it’ll have to jump an average of... More »

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Internet • Web 2.0 • Microsoft Office • enterprise software • wikis • blogs • RSS • podcasting

Microsoft Weighs Subscription Model for Office

Firm's core apps face Google competition

Apr 18, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft is considering introducing a subscription-based business model for its Office suite of applications in the US, the Wall Street Journal reports. The firm said it was launching a beta testing program, “Albany,” and expected to make the subscription generally available by the end of 2008. Microsoft’s... More »

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Google • Microsoft • software • subscription • Microsoft Office • emerging markets • Microsoft Excel

Google Ups Ante in Office Software Fight Vs. Microsoft

Expansion of partnership with Salesforce puts Softy on defensive

Apr 14, 08 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google and Salesforce.com have expanded their partnership in customer-management and office software, the New York Times reports, in an ongoing competition with Microsoft and its Office suite. Salesforce’s software will be further integrated with Google’s applications—a milestone in the search giant’s efforts to challenge Microsoft... More »

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Google • Microsoft • software • Microsoft Office • Salesforce.com

Google Sites App Again Targets Microsoft Office

Program allows workgroups to create online media

Feb 28, 08 11:43 AM CST
(Newser) - Google hopes to make another dent in Microsoft’s productivity empire with a new application: Google Sites. The program lets workgroups create multimedia web content, and rivals Microsoft’s $1-billion-a-year SharePoint, the New York Times reports. It joins Google apps for email, word processing, and more in an assault on... More »

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Microsoft Office • Google Apps • Google Sites • productivity applications • Web apps • Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft Tries to Appease EU With Blueprints

But skeptical regulators say it's deja vu from
US software giant

Feb 21, 08 5:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Microsoft plans to share the secrets of its most popular products, the company announced today, in an effort to satisfy EU regulators who want the software giant to improve its interoperability. The European Commission did cautiously applaud the move, but noted that Microsoft has already made at least four similar... More »

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Microsoft • European Union • antitrust • Microsoft Vista • Microsoft Office • open source • European Commission

Microsoft Under More EU Fire

Company's push for Office approval in spotlight

Feb 8, 08 12:43 PM CST
(Newser) - Shortly after the EU announced two new antitrust probes focusing on Microsoft, investigators are scrutinizing the company again. In question this time is whether Microsoft broke antitrust laws during a push last year to get its Office software file format approved as an international standard, reports the Wall Street ... More »

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Microsoft • European Union • antitrust • Microsoft Office • Open XML

Vista, Office Spur Microsoft to Huge Growth

23% gains in first quarter; new PC
sales drive gains

Oct 26, 07 3:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft yesterday reported a 23% leap in net income and its best revenue growth since the dot-com boom, making it an isolated winner in a tumbling market. The announcement drove up the company's shares 10% in after-hours trading. The sales of new PCs with Windows installed helped drive the gains,... More »

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Google • Microsoft • Microsoft Windows • earnings reports • Microsoft Vista • software • Xbox 360 • Microsoft Office • Halo 3 • Microsoft Live Search • Google Apps • Internet advertising • computer

IBM Challenges Microsoft Office With Free Software

Free software does many of the same things as expensive suite

Sep 18, 07 6:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - IBM is issuing a new challenge to the supremacy of Microsoft's Office software, releasing a suite of free programs, called Symphony, that can perform many of the functions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft just released Office 7.0, and one analyst speculates many users will switch to Symphony rather... More »

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Microsoft • IBM • software • Open Office • Microsoft Office • computer

Panel Rejects Microsoft Standard Bid

As open document formats catch on, software giant meets resistance

Sep 5, 07 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft got a surprise smackdown from an international panel yesterday in its bid to have its open document format recognized as an international standard. The effort to certify Office Open XML met with resistance from 26% of the voting nations, and anything over 25% is a deal-breaker, the Times reports.... More »

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