Opening doors beyond Microsoft Office
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Redmond's desktop software dominance faces an uprising of alternatives from the likes of IBM, Google and Yahoo.
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What Yahoo! can do for Microsoft--and what it can't.
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The newest version of Microsoft Office arrives this week, complete with a tricked-out user interface intended to impress the Windows-weary. By Scott Gilbertson. Plus: Gallery: Office 2007.
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New .mobi and .jobs, a shift in the ownership of .net
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Google Docs, a Web-based platform for creating, sharing, storing, and publishing documents, has offered capabilities for word processing and creating spreadsheets, but it was missing a major piece of the Microsoft Office puzzle --  until now. On Monday, Google added business presentation software, the element that many analysts said was preventing the Web-based office suite from contending with Office on a larger scale.
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A new product lets workers combine simple bits of software to create business tools.
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But it's not as simple as point-and-click.
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The OOo community has begun to release some macros and add-ons to extend the functionality of the office suite.
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ThinkFree's got happy users, a familiar interface, hooks into the blazing Web 2.0 space, and a price point far below its main competitor. But if your main competitor is Microsoft Office, all those advantages count for less market share than you'd think.
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The OpenOffice.org project has turned four years old, celebrating its birthday on the anniversary of Sun's donation of StarOffice to the open source community. With 31 million downloads and counting, the free office suite has helped push for mainstream acceptance of open source software by offering an alternative to Microsoft's pricey Office System. OpenOffice.org 2.0 is set for release next spring, complete with an open equivalent to Microsoft Access.
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Assuming that Office Power Users think of themselves as mortals... Book review In addition to the legions of professional Visual Basic programmers, there are still more developers who use VBA and Microsoft Office for automation, customisation or the development of tailored office applications. Many of these are super-users rather full-time developers, but they have depended on VBA to extend and expand what it is they can do with Excel, Office, Access et al.â¦
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By Rhodri Marsden  This isn't something I ever thought I'd write, but it's been an interesting few months in the world of office software.
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Ziff Davis - Opinion: Having Microsoft Office available on Mac OS gives Apple needed credibility with customers. But it also gives Microsoft the ability to suddenly pull the plug if it ever so decides.
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Choice is an important element of free software, so it's perhaps no surprise that even at the level of the desktop environment there is more than one offering.  But the main alternatives â KDE and GNOME â represent more than just a way of placing icons on a screen.  Nowhere is that more evident than in their respective views on Microsoft's OOXML document standard, which are very far apart â perhaps dangerously so. read more
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Microsoft is turning the software into what it hopes will be a one-stop shop for e-mail, voice mail and faxes.
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Microsoft is considering giving away its basic Microsoft Works word processing and spreadsheet software, aimed at preventing a possible challenge in the space from Google. But can it do so without hurting sales of Microsoft Office?
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Microsoft made new versions of Windows and Office available to business customers on Thursday.