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November 03, 2003 03 Nov'03
MS price cuts fail to tempt IT chiefs to upgrade

Microsoft's plans to boost uptake of its new Office 2003 product by offering discounts has met with a cool response from IT...
October 27, 2003 27 Oct'03
Microsoft discounts Office 2003 licences

Organisations considering purchasing Microsoft Office 2003 could make savings of more than 20% if they wait until December.
October 17, 2003 17 Oct'03
Microsoft heralds savings as Office targets high-end portals with low-cost alternative

Latest Office and Exchange boost support for e-forms and remote access
October 02, 2003 02 Oct'03
Govt begins search for procurement chief

The search is on to find a replacement for Office of Government Commerce chief executive Peter Gershon, the man who was charged...

October 02, 2003 02 Oct'03
OpenOffice releases version 1.1

The OpenOffice.org group has released the final version 1.1 of its free open-source productivity suite.
September 15, 2003 15 Sep'03
Microsoft announces Office Live Meeting

Microsoft has unveiled Office Live Meeting, the first service offered as part of its Office productivity suite, signalling its...
August 05, 2003 05 Aug'03
Microsoft Office users can turn Professional

Microsoft will give certain Office Standard Edition users the right to order Office Professional Edition applications at no extra...
May 28, 2003 28 May'03
Microsoft adds Office label to IM server

Microsoft is to brand its forthcoming Real-Time Communications Server software as part of the Office family.
May 13, 2003 13 May'03
Microsoft joins forces with Swedish firm on SMS for Office

Stockholm mobile messaging company General Wireless has teamed up with Microsoft to offer software that enables users to send SMS...
May 06, 2003 06 May'03
MS delays Office launch

Microsoft is to delay the launch of Office 2003 to carry out more "improvements" following negative feedback from users beta...

May 06, 2003 06 May'03
College set to make savings with trailblazing Office 2003 rollout

Northumberland College has embarked on a pre-release roll-out of Office 2003 in the hope it will lower administration overheads...
May 02, 2003 02 May'03
Foreign Office scraps global project after disaster recovery concerns

The Foreign Office has cancelled a £23m knowledge management project because it lacked adequate disaster recovery provision.
April 25, 2003 25 Apr'03
Microsoft pushes back Office 2003 launch

Microsoft will release a "refresh" of Office 2003 beta 2 before finalising the product, pushing back the commercial launch of the...
April 22, 2003 22 Apr'03
Microsoft works to squash Office 2000 bug

A bug in Microsoft Office 2000 software can lead to some users being prompted repeatedly to register the program.
March 21, 2003 21 Mar'03
Microsoft struggles to move VBA developers to Office 2003 environment

Office 2003 may offer end-users a host of new productivity features, but Microsoft has admitted it faces a struggle to move the...
March 21, 2003 21 Mar'03
XML offers better flexibility but gives users too much control in Office 2003

Microsoft promises to change how users create, access and manage information, by making XML the foundation for its forthcoming...
March 06, 2003 06 Mar'03
New WordPerfect Office 11 suite due in April

The latest version of Corel's WordPerfect Office productivity software suite will debut in late April with deeper XML integration...
February 13, 2003 13 Feb'03
Microsoft renames Office beta

The next version of Microsoft Office, known as Office 11, is likely to be renamed Office 2003 from the release of the second beta...
February 11, 2003 11 Feb'03
Microsoft names XDocs application 'InfoPath'

Microsoft's name for the next member of its Office family, formerly codenamed XDocs, is InfoPath.
January 10, 2003 10 Jan'03
Car rental company moves to .net terminal services system

Enterprise Rent-A-Car plans to deliver Microsoft Office and internally developed car-rental applications to 5,000 branch...
December 12, 2002 12 Dec'02
Sony ships Star Office

Sony has become the first major supplier to ship Sun's Star Office 6.0 software suite on its PCs in a move that could precipitate...
December 09, 2002 09 Dec'02
Microsoft brings Visual Studio to Office 11

Microsoft has announced a set of tools that will allow programmers to use the company's Visual Studio .net to build customised...
November 28, 2002 28 Nov'02
iOra unveils offline viewer of Sharepoint Team Services

At Microsoft's IT Forum in Denmark, iOra launched Mobile Intranet for Microsoft Sharepoint Team Services to enable disconnected...
November 08, 2002 08 Nov'02
MSOffice 11 will force councils to upgrade

The latest version of Microsoft Office, due to be released next year, could be a blessing in disguise for local authorities that...
October 31, 2002 31 Oct'02
Microsoft to offer 'smart document' workgroup capabilities in Office 11

Not content with implementing XML (Extensible Markup Language) as the underlying format for its next Office productivity suite,...
October 30, 2002 30 Oct'02
Office upgrade will only run on Windows XP and 2000

The next release of Microsoft Office will only work on Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems that have Service Pack 3...
October 23, 2002 23 Oct'02
XML-packed Office 11 goes into beta

The next version of Microsoft Office is now available on a limited beta programme.
October 17, 2002 17 Oct'02
Microsoft plans tablet application for Office

Microsoft is developing a completely new category of Office application that will support people who attend meetings and events,...
October 10, 2002 10 Oct'02
Gartner ITxpo: XP means big savings, says Microsoft

Enterprises upgrading to Windows and Office XP can make dramatic cost savings, Microsoft executives told delegates at the Gartner...
October 10, 2002 10 Oct'02
Microsoft expands Office family with Xdocs app

Microsoft is developing an application for its Office software products that will allow business users to create, edit and view...
September 05, 2002 05 Sep'02
Omnipage Pro Office features facilitate PDF use across the business

ScanSoft's latest version of Omnipage Pro Office has added batch processing facilities to allow it to be more broadly used in...
August 27, 2002 27 Aug'02
Microsoft patches more serious security flaws

Millions of users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser and Office suite could be at risk of having their documents...
June 14, 2002 14 Jun'02
Mirapoint tempts Openwave Post.Office users

Messaging specialist Mirapoint is to offer discount incentives to encourage users to switch from Openwave Systems' Post.Office...
April 09, 2002 09 Apr'02
Passport Agency hit by upgrade glitch

Passport Offices around the country were offline today after problems hit IT systems following a routine software upgrade last...
February 08, 2002 08 Feb'02
Bug discovered in Office for Mac

Microsoft has announced a bug alert for Office v. X for the Macintosh. The security vulnerability in an anti-piracy tool allows...
January 17, 2002 17 Jan'02
Foreign Office turns to ICL for £6.3m knowledge pool

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has signed a £6.3m, four-year deal with ICL to build a knowledge service that will...
December 17, 2001 17 Dec'01
Service pack cleans up Office XP

In a bid to encourage users to switch to Office XP as well as to its Windows XP operating system, Microsoft has released its...
December 12, 2001 12 Dec'01
US states want MS Office ported to Linux

The nine US states that want tougher remedies imposed on Microsoft are attempting to weaken the software giant's desktop monopoly...
November 26, 2001 26 Nov'01
Whitehall weighs up Microsoft fee hike

The UK Government is facing licence fee rises of up to 200% for its Microsoft software in 2002, according to the Office of...
November 20, 2001 20 Nov'01
Microsoft launches Office for Mac OS X

Microsoft has released a version of Office for Mac OS X v. 10.1, the latest in a number of moves by major software vendors to...
September 21, 2001 21 Sep'01
Office sets standard for Mac OS X applications

Microsoft has unveiled its new Office productivity suite for Apple's latest version of its new Mac OS X operating system.
September 18, 2001 18 Sep'01
Hong Kong closes 3G licence bids

Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunication Authority (OFTA) will close applications for its 3G (third-generation) mobile...
August 28, 2001 28 Aug'01
US state in unprecedented MS Office ASP deal

Arizona is taking an ASP approach to delivering educational software and productivity applications to 850,000 students in its...
May 15, 2001 15 May'01
Microsoft Office users get more Web help

The deluge of announcements about new Web services from Microsoft continued today, when the software giant announced it would...
May 11, 2001 11 May'01
Microsoft Office XP launch is imminent

Office XP, the next version of Microsoft's application suite, will be officially released on May 31, with new features to include...
March 07, 2001 07 Mar'01
Spring release for MS Office XP

Microsoft has released Office XP to manufacturing ready for release in the spring. The company has also announced the full...
February 21, 2001 21 Feb'01
Home Office abandons IT system

The Home Office has dropped part of a multi-million pound IT system designed to speed up the processing of asylum applications...
January 24, 2001 24 Jan'01
Post Office riposte to high street banking demise

Britain's 18,000 post offices are to offer current account services on behalf of the major high-street banks, with the help of...
January 08, 2001 08 Jan'01
Microsoft launches knowledge management server

Microsoft has launched the Sharepoint Portal Server 2001, a dedicated knowledge management server for corporate intranets.
November 22, 2000 22 Nov'00
Costs soar with PO bank plan

As a Commons Trade & Industry committee voices its concerns, the Pathway debacle returns to haunt the Post Office. Mike Simons...
July 26, 2000 26 Jul'00
Revenue investigated over free MS software

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The Inland Revenue has been referred to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for handing out free Microsoft tax...
April 19, 2000 19 Apr'00
CSSA to report on ITfiascos

A major investigation into software disasters has resulted in what the CSSA calls a "ground-breaking partnership" with the Cabinet Office.
The two...