Bi-Monthly Office Cumulative Updates Will Not Impact Service Packs
	Microsoft is gearing up for the release of the first cumulative update for the Office System. The Redmond company is changing the delivery model of the hotfixes designed for Office, introducing a defined schedule for the releases. Currently, hotfixes are made available on a weekly basis but moving forward, this will no longer be the case. In this regard, a scheduled delivery model involves nothing more than bundling hotfixes in b ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 06:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NeoOffice 2.2.4 Available
	After 6 patch releases for NeoOffice 2.2.3, NeoOffice.org, the guys behind your favorite suite of office apps, have updated the program to version 2.2.4. While not adding much – although among the new features we can count native floating tool windows, magnify and swipe trackpad gestures and more – ... [read more >>]
	17 June 2008, 02:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Anti-Piracy Tools Expose Windows and Office Pirates
	Microsoft's online validation tools designed as anti-piracy mechanisms are increasingly applauded by the company for contributing to identify pirates of its software products. The Redmond giant has made available both the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) and the Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) to protect its flag-ship products, the Windows platform and the Office System. As a result of feedback provided through the anti-piracy ... [read more >>]
	10 June 2008, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NeoOffice 2.2.3 Patch 4 Is Here
	Users of NeoOffice 2.2.3 can now download and install the fourth patch for this version of the free office app suite for Mac, the guys at NeoOffice.org say. While NeoOffice 2.2.3 Patch 4 isn't half as exciting as the latest additions, it does fix a number of exporting proble ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 03:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Docs Has View
	One of Google's many products is Google Docs, which is basically a web version support to users wanting to edit and create office documents. The product, which was released in September 2007, provides basic functions for a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation. Since its release, it has received a number of important upgrades, designed to enhance users' experience. Recently, Google Docs has also received a couple ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 02:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Plants and Windows Increase Job Satisfaction
	Well, that settles it. When you want to make your employees unhappy just put them in an environment with artificial light only and no windows and take away their greens – plants, that is. According to a study led by Tina Cade from the Texas State University and Andrea Dravigne of the San Marcos Nature Center, the presence of plants in your work environment could have a significant impact on your happiness. "We pretty muc ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 09:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Dodge the Latest Release of Security Patches
	May has so far proved to be nothing short on an easy ride for the Redmond company, which issued a total of four security bulletins affecting the Windows operating system and the Office suite as well as a range of security solutions including Windows Live OneCare, Antigen, Windows Defender, Forefront Security. Notable is the absence of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 from the list of affected products, but the fac ... [read more >>]
	14 May 2008, 09:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No More X11 Starting with OpenOffice 3.0
	OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta has just been released for the public to test and report any issues that might have gone unnoticed. The open-source multiplatform and multilingual office suite is compatible with all other major office suites. Version 3.0 is the first version of OpenOffice that will run on Mac OS X without X11.The product is ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 06:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

OpenOffice 3 Beta out and Waiting for Download
	A new beta version of OpenOffice, the famous open source alternative to Microsoft Office, was officially rolled out. OpenOffice 3 Beta 1 comes with several new functions supposed to be included in the final version of the application, scheduled for release in September 2008. Among the new features, one of the most important functions is surely the Mac OS X support which now allows Mac users to install and run the Office suite wit ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 07:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Offers “Save as DAISY XML” Add-in for Office Word
	The "Save as DAISY XML" add-in is a solution designed to integrate with various versions of the Office Word application in order to enable users with vision disabilities to access content in the most common assistive technology format in the world. Put together by Microsoft, Sonata Software and the Digital Accessible Information SYstem (DAISY) Consortium, the "Save as DAISY XML" add-in can be used with Office ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 06:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft's Genuine Advantage Watchdog Got to Roam Free
	Microsoft acknowledged the existence of an unspecified error which permitted the company's Genuine Advantage watchdog for the Office platform to roam free this past week. Cori Hartje, director of the Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative, announced as early as April 8 that, just like Windows, the Office System will also be getting its very own Genuine Advantage antipiracy mechanism. However, the initial Office Genuine Advant ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 06:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Docs Goes Offline, Challenging Microsoft Office
	A few days ago, Google released what seems to be one of the most expected features ever issued by the Mountain View-based company: offline support for Google Docs. This means that Google Docs, that powerful document editing technology available for free for all Google-registered members, is now accessible even without an Internet connection. This obviously makes us think that Microsoft Office, a solution which has always been the ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 05:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Cooking Open Source Solutions
	Microsoft announced that it would start cooking open source solutions designed to integrate with its Office System. The Redmond company's perspective over its flagship products, Windows and Office, is that both are platforms, and in this context, the two can act as the basis for additional software. And Microsoft is gearing up in order to deliver its own contribution to both the environment of products built on top of the Office suite ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 07:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Plugs a Dozen Office Security Holes
	Microsoft has plugged no less than 12 security holes in its Office System. According to Tami Gallupe, MSRC Release Manager, all of the four security bulletins come with a maximum severity rating of Critical, a rating associated with the risk of allowing remote code execution. Five vulnerabilities ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2008, 13:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Shows Open Source a Little Love
	At the end of February 2008, Microsoft set course on a new path, governed by new interoperability principles. The Redmond company essentially focused its new course on delivering a bridge designed to connect its proprietary solutions and standards, and third-party software and formats. Among the first steps done in the new direction is the unveiling of the Document Interoperability Initiative. The new initiative, from Microsoft’s perspecti ... [read more >>]
	07 March 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Updated - 11.4.0
	It is the second Tuesday of February and users of Microsoft's Office 2004 for Mac are getting a bit of a treat. Actually, considering the risk they've been exposed to so far, it's more of a life-saver, but we'll just leave it at that. The patc ... [read more >>]
	13 February 2008, 13:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bill Gates: Office Is a Platform too, Not Just Windows
	In an effort to underline the relevance of the Office System as a platform for developers and not just an application, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates introduced during his keynote address at the Office System Developers Conference 2008, in San Jose, new software, services and tools designed to make Office an equivalent of Windows. At least from a development platform perspective. But unlike Windows, Gates emphasized the opportunity for deve ... [read more >>]
	12 February 2008, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

And Excel Is Back with a Vengeance
	Microsoft has confirmed that the Office suite is once again under fire at the beginning of 2008. However, it seems that attacks only target the Excel component in a variety of Office versions. Concomitantly with revealing that a Critical, Zero-Day vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild, the Redmond company provided assurance that users of the latest versions of the Office System are not at any risk from attack. ... [read more >>]
	16 January 2008, 02:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Many “O”s in Google?
	The photo on the left was taken in the Google Amsterdam office and it’s a reminder of the many many pages indexed by Google. How so? Well, if there’s a search query that has over 100 returns, you'll get to see the whole 10 "O"s, and clicking each one will redirect you to the next 10 pages of results. There might yet be some connection between the way the "next results" are displayed and the Googol, the ... [read more >>]
	14 January 2008, 06:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Word, PowerPoint and Excel – Hackers’ Favorite Targets
	After a powerful spam campaign containing malicious Word documents has been spotted on the web, a new email attack based on PowerPoint slideshows targets our computers. JM Hipolito of Trend Micro wrote, a few days ago, that the TROJ_PPDROP.K Trojan horse was first detected in a spam message containing the PowerPoint slideshow named Merry Christmas.pps-1. In case the user is so naïve to open the malicious attachment, the Trojan h ... [read more >>]
	04 January 2008, 10:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Office Documents Dangerous Once Again
	Spamming has always been a problem for us due to more or less dangerous attachments included in the emails. Spam messages contain all formats of files starting with MP3 files and ending with movies or pictures. Even Microsoft Office got affected by the spammers, as numerous .DOC files have been attached to those dangerous messages and sent to millions of users from all around. According to JM Hipolito of Trend Micro, 2008 came wi ... [read more >>]
	03 January 2008, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Office Spam Goes Crazy!
	Spam has always been extremely disturbing for everyone of us, but November came with an avalanche of unsolicited emails that simply surprised us. Security company Proofpoint today reported that spam continues to represent 90 percent of the total email traffic, which is pretty shocking when we think that most unwanted messages came with infected attachments or malicious links. In addition, the number of the Microsoft Word document ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Docs? I’m Not Sure I Know What You’re Talking about…
	Shocking, you might say, but indeed, it is the truth. 73 percent of the Americans interviewed admitted to never having heard about Google Docs. Well, to be honest, the application only has about 500 thousand users in total, according to compete.com, but that is frequent users with emphasis on frequent. Many have just clicked the "Open as Google Document" option for viewing attachments and have left it at that. Still, they count a ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

OpenOffice Accessible through Your Browser
	OpenOffice, the popular freeware Office suite, is now accessible through your browser, as the developers rolled out a web-based version available to only 15,000 beta testers. Since all you need is a browser, there's no download or installation required to access the web-based OpenOffice. The service is compatible with most browsers on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, so it shouldn't be a problem to use it. This new flavor o ... [read more >>]
	17 December 2007, 09:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NeoOffice Is More Secure than Anytime Before
	Following a recent vulnerability discovered in OpenOffice.org, many of the Office suites out there, which are based on the main OpenOffice package, are also affected by the same glitch. NeoOffice is just an example, as the 2.2.2 version without Patch 4 installed is vulnerable to attacks because of the same OpenOffice issue. Secunia rated the flaw as moderately critical and advised the users to download and install the patch as so ... [read more >>]
	14 December 2007, 06:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Office Live Workspace Beta Goes Live
	Office Live Workspace has debuted into Beta. Positioned as a direct rival of Google Docs, Office Live Workspace Beta is, in fact, nothing short of a much awaited reaction from Microsoft at Google's ever more intrusive steps into its Office territory. But, Microsoft stressed from the get go that Office Live Workspace Beta was, by no means, an alter ... [read more >>]
	10 December 2007, 12:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hey, OpenOffice Users, Update Your Application NOW!
	OpenOffice has always been regarded as the perfect solution for Microsoft Office, a more expensive solution powered by the Redmond-based company. Since it has been available for free for all Windows, Mac, and Linux users, OpenOffice is installed on millions of computers from all over the world. But, this impressive popularity doesn't necessarily mean that the Office suite is also 100 percent secure. This is why security comp ... [read more >>]
	05 December 2007, 05:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google and Microsoft, Beware!
	Instant Collaboration Software Technologies (InstaColl), the company founded by Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia unveiled its Live Documents on Wednesday. The office productivity suite in question is set to compete with Microsoft and Google and it allows users to access and work on their documents online using a browser and at the same time collaborate and share documents in real time with others. Live Documents will support any browser ... [read more >>]
	22 November 2007, 10:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Office
	Throughout the years we've seen so many video games turned into games. Many movies have also been turned into games, since a certain fashion spawned trying to make more money based on a Hollywood production. But I don't think many would have bet on a British TV Show. After turning very popular in North America, this little gig got itself a game with the same name, "The Office". This is pretty much a breath of fres ... [read more >>]
	16 November 2007, 10:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vulnerabilities, Patches and Exploits – a Natural Security Evolution
	Moving from vulnerabilities to patches and then to the ensuing exploits is a natural order of security evolution for Microsoft products. And the company's monthly patch cycle comes only to confirm this trend. In the aftermath of the security bulletins issued on October 9, 2007, exploits appeared targeting an initially privately reported vulnerability in Word from Office 2000 Service Pack 3, Office XP Service Pack 3 and Microsoft Offic ... [read more >>]
	11 October 2007, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's New in Microsoft Land: 1st - 5th October 2007
	On Monday, Microsoft announced what seems to be the most important release this year after Windows Vista's launch on January 30: the availability of a web-based flavor of Microsoft Office which is obviously the software giant's reply to Google's evolution into this market. Office Live Workspace is pretty similar with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, which recently received a presentation tool, allowing the ... [read more >>]
	06 October 2007, 14:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Adobe Has a Real Chance of Killing Microsoft Office
	On October 1, Adobe joined Google, IBM, Sun, Ajax13, ThinkFree, TransMedia, and Zoho, piling up on the rivals offering alternative solutions to Microsoft's Office system. Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that it has acquired Virtual Ubiquity, a start-up developing Buzzword, a web-based, collaborative word processor, similar to Google Docs & Sp ... [read more >>]
	01 October 2007, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Office – Even More Powerful Now!
	Yesterday, the Mountain View company Google released its long-awaited presentation tool which is supposed to complete the Office suite and compete with the Redmond software firm Microsoft. As you know, the battle is extremely important because the winner can obtain important profits which is obviously the main target for both competitors. Besides money that is the most important aspect of the duel, the leader obtains a remarkable ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google's PowerPoint Clone To Be Released These Days
	A long time ago, the Internet bloggers discovered a document signed by the Mountain View Google in which they found details about a new technology prepared by the company. At that time, many of them said that Google's new solution is a presentation tool, codename Presently, that is supposed to represent the PowerPoint killer. Today, The Inquirer reports the super giant Google prepares the release of this solution these days ... [read more >>]
	14 September 2007, 10:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Steals Features from Microsoft Office
	The competition between Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Microsoft Office was never confirmed by the two companies but every once in a while the super giant Google adds new features into its web-based product. Today, the Mountain View firm introduces a new function for Spreadsheets that is now able to auto-fill some cells depending on the data entered by you in the previous ones. Just like in Microsoft Office, you can do this b ... [read more >>]
	06 September 2007, 03:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Free Corel Tool Bridges Office 2007 and Adobe Acrobat
	WordPerfect Lightning is a free tool available for download from Corel, designed to bridge the company's own WordPerfect application with Microsoft's Office 2007 System and with Adobe Acrobat. Corel describes WordPerfect Lightning as a hybrid piece of software delivering note-taking and Web collaboration capabilities. The premium Word Processing Module for WordPerfect Lightning will be showcased at the Office 2.0 Conference in Sa ... [read more >>]
	05 September 2007, 03:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Not Afraid Of Malaria
	Every time Google announces its plans to open a new office in a certain country, it is said that this represents the search giant's attempts to conquer the nation. This time, the reports are concerning South Africa as the Mountain View company said it will open a new office in the country on September 3, 2007. According to SA The Good News, Google also hired Stafford Masie who also worked as a Country Manager at Novel to lea ... [read more >>]
	27 August 2007, 06:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Freeware Office Suite Available for Download
	If anyone is still interested in buying Microsoft Office, then this should make them turn their to another solution on the market, because Microsoft's pack of tools is not the only technology available on the market. Beside Google's Office suite, OpenOffice and other similar services, a new product is now aiming to challenge the software companies using a very interesting project. Zoho is the provider of a web-based ... [read more >>]
	21 August 2007, 08:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Updates Office 2004
	While the latest version of Office might be delayed until next year, Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has just released an update to the current version of the software suite. While this update may not bring any improvements to the software as such, it will plug a security hole. The Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.7 software update addresses a vulnerability that could be leveraged by an attacker in order to overwrite the contents of th ... [read more >>]
	15 August 2007, 07:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Yahoo and The Story of Illinois
	Yahoo is now trying to make moves that are similar to its rival’s from the Mountain View company, and opens new offices in order to support the giant portal's expansion. The new Yahoo office will be built in Illinois and will employ approximately 100 local engineers, Campus Technology reported today. The employees will be focused on most of the giant portal's applications including Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail and others. A ... [read more >>]
	15 August 2007, 06:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Office Suite Included in Google Pack! Free Download Here!
	Although the Mountain View company works on its own Office suite meant to compete with the famous Microsoft Office, Google made a major addition to the Pack of software offered for free. StarOffice, a package of utilities that includes StarWriter, StarCalc, StarImpress, StarDraw and StarBase is now available for download within Google Pack, the collection of free utilities provided by the Mountain View company Google. StarOffice is created ... [read more >>]
	13 August 2007, 08:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7 Are All Flawed!
	Windows Vista, the Microsoft Office 2007 System and Internet Explorer 7 are all flawed by security vulnerabilities. Still, the list of software from the Redmond company impacted by security flaws is more extensive than the three products enumerated above. On August 9, Microsoft's Bulletin Release Advance Notification describing the security updates scheduled for August 14 reference all supported Windows operating systems, including Wi ... [read more >>]
	10 August 2007, 03:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Office Now Available in New Countries
	Since the search giant announced the release of Google Apps, numerous worldwide consumers expressed their interest for the Google solution but there was only one program: the product that was regarded as a Microsoft Office competitor was available only for the English-speaking customers from the United States. From now on, interested users from up to six new countries are also available to use the product straight into their moth ... [read more >>]
	09 August 2007, 08:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What’s New in Microsoft Land: 23rd – 27th July 2007
	Microsoft developed OneCare as the main security solution for the Windows operating system, but it was proved several times that this application might not be able to protect the user. That’s why most of the security companies able to develop powerful products compatible with Microsoft’s operating system turned their face to Vista in order to bring more money and consumers to their records. Kaspersky Labs is just one of them, its antivirus ... [read more >>]
	29 July 2007, 11:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

EA Sets New Office in Russia
	If you thought Electronic Arts was big, well... it just got bigger. According to this report I'm currently looking at, Electronic Arts Inc – the world’s leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment – has announced today ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What's New in Microsoft Land: 16th - 20th July 2007
	Microsoft is a company that became famous for its Windows operating system while other sides of the giant such as the games department remained a little bit anonymous due to this software solution. But the game industry became very important for the Redmond company since it released Xbox 360 ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2007, 07:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What’s New in Microsoft Land: 9th – 13th July 2007
	The Live Earth concerts powered by Microsoft and meant to fight against the global warming managed to make MSN an important part of the history after no less than 8 million people watched live content on Monday. As the Redmond company reports, there ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2007, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google vs. Microsoft
	Google is by no means a traditional software company. Not in the sense of the word defining Microsoft. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates started building the world’s largest software company in a time when not even the concept of a software company existed. Google managed to successfully diverge from the traditional line, coming up with a new web-based business model. But this does not mean that the two[ADMARK= ... [read more >>]
	13 July 2007, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Threatened – Google Office Targets New Users
	Google Apps was described as the best replacement for Microsoft's Office suite just after its launch date because it bundles several utilities similar with the ones implemented by the Redmond company. However, the competition is more and more important but the only competitor that makes new moves is Google. Today, the search giant expands the Education Edition of Google Apps to registered nonprofits, allowing them to use the ... [read more >>]
	13 July 2007, 02:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia