http://www.itworld.com/office-suites xx http://www.itworld.com/software/68930/forrester-ms-office-still-sitting-pretty-enterprise New research from Forrester shows that while the poor economy has delayed some upgrades to Microsoft 2007, most enterprises are sticking with some version of Microsoft's productivity suite over alternatives such as Google Apps. http://www.itworld.com/software/68930/forrester-ms-office-still-sitting-pretty-enterprise#comments Software Analysis Microsoft Office office suites Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:33:48 -0400 ITworld staff 68930 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/63984/microsoft-cuts-software-leasing-costs-retain-companies Microsoft is wooing recession-hit companies seeking to opt out of their software maintenance contracts by cutting the price of leasing software by as much as 26%. http://www.itworld.com/software/63984/microsoft-cuts-software-leasing-costs-retain-companies#comments Software News ERP Microsoft Office 2007 office suites Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:38:44 -0400 ITworld staff 63984 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/open-source/58726/microsoft-led-group-launches-new-open-xml-interop-tools A group of vendors led by Microsoft and aimed at fostering interoperability between different document formats has unveiled several tools to help people translate among documents created in Open XML and documents that use other file formats. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/58726/microsoft-led-group-launches-new-open-xml-interop-tools#comments Open Source Software News office suites Open XML Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:48:04 -0500 ITworld staff 58726 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/software/53734/online-office-apps-get-real Web-based office suites are coming into their own at last. For quite a while, Web-based suites -- which offered word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and other tools associated with desktop office suites -- were extolled not because they did these things well, but because they could do them at all. But the three major competitors, Google Docs, ThinkFree, and Zoho, have all made major improvements in recent months. They're becoming both broader, with more applications, and deeper, with more features and functionality in existing apps. http://www.itworld.com/software/53734/online-office-apps-get-real#comments SaaS Software Opinion Google hosted applications office suites ThinkFree Zoho Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:17:39 -0400 ITworld staff 53734 at http://www.itworld.com