After a long wait, it appears that software giant Microsoft may finally support the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2. A technical preview of the latest installment in the long-running Microsoft productivity application suite Office series, Office 15 offered support for ODF 1.2. The beta version of Office 15 is slated for a late-summer release. This [...]
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Microsoft Shutters its Office Live Small Business Service
Microsoft proceeded with its plans to shut down its cloud-based Office Live Small Business (OLSB) service suite this past Monday. It is still unclear how many of its customers were aware of the closure deadline or were experiencing problems migrating their sites to the successor Office 365 service. The OLSB service offered primarily email communications [...]
Microsoft Office 15 goes through preview phase
The version that will succeed the current official version of Microsoft Office has been released on a limited basis by Microsoft. This limited release is restricted to select customers and is intended for both preview and testing purposes. The general public will get to see what the new Office version has to offer when the [...]
Microsoft Introduces Office Web Apps
Finally, Microsoft has launched Office Web Apps, a suite of Microsoft Office applications available online. This is the best answer Microsoft can come up with against Google Docs, the online office suite of Google. The web-based apps have been available in beta mode for quite some time now, so the bigger news is that Microsoft [...]
How to Integrate Microsoft Office and Google Docs into Your Worklife
In practically any and every industry that you can work in today, you are likely to encounter an office productivity suite of some sort. Office productivity suites are perhaps one of the most important pieces of software you need on your computer or laptop. These suites allow you to create, edit, open, and manage documents, [...]