A set of applications that generally includes a word processor, spreadsheet, database program and perhaps a presentation graphics or charting program. See application suite.
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- Microsoft Office Professional 2010 beta (Windows)
- Microsoft Office helps you work faster, easier, and more intuitively, whether you're in the office, on the road, working solo, or part of a team. The 2010 Microsoft Office system has evolved from a suite of personal productivity products to a more comprehensive and integrated system. Building on the familiar...
- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Business Productivity Online Suite - Highly Secure and Reliable Cloud Services
- Learn about fully hosted productivity tools in the cloud with Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite BPOS. With real time communication and collaboration tools, including, instant messaging, email, video conferencing, shared calendars, and SharePoint, BPOS is one suite that gets everyone working together. With BPOS, you can collaborate from virtually anywhere...
- Webcasts 2009-11-16
- Business Productivity Online Suite - Communicate Success
- Learn how to boost your team's productivity and collaboration with the Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite BPOS. With instant messaging, email, video conferencing, shared calendars, and one central place on the web to store and share documents, your team will know where to access the info they need, and how...
- Webcasts 2009-11-16
- Office 2010 Beta 2 bits leak to the Web
- Microsoft has been having a tough time keeping its Office 2010 bits from leaking. On November 13, the Professional Plus version of the next version of Microsoft's productivity suite leaked again. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Microsoft chops prices of its hosted enterprise cloud offerings
- Microsoft is cutting prices of its Microsoft-hosted Exchange, as well as its suite of business services (known as the Business Productivity Online Suite, or BPOS), and is refunding the difference to existing hosting customers. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- OpenOffice.org 3.2 Beta (Mac)
- This office productivity suite for Mac OS X includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to that of other office suites. OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including...
- Software downloads 2009-10-28
- The chief value of open source
- Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Is the IBM Client for Smart Work an alternative to 7 for schools?
- Thoughts"IBM and Canonical, though, are asking if that upgrade path really needs to involve Windows at all."Umm - dare I ask why large industries are allowed to influence education?"Why migrate to Windows, though, when your client machines can run Ubuntu "Because I don't need to deal with any migration headaches...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Is the IBM Client for Smart Work an alternative to 7 for schools?
- Windows 7 looks like a genuinely good OS. Reasonable system requirements, high levels of usability and stability...What's not to like? Well, the price, of course. Volume educational licensing runs around $70 a seat for Windows 7 Professional upgrades. Then there's the actual upgrade process. Major rollouts...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- HTC Tilt 2 (AT&T)
- Editors' note: Portions of the Features section were taken from our review of the HTC Pure since the two smartphones share a number of same features.After waiting in the wings, AT&T's business customers are finally getting their turn with the HTC Touch Pro2. Dubbed the HTC Tilt 2 (and obviously...
- Product reviews 2009-10-20
- SharePoint 2010 Vegas First Impressions
- Kirk J Koenigsbauer • Microsoft Trying to write a blogpost about the SharePoint 2010 announcements today here in Las Vegas is like trying to summarize Microsoft in a few paragraphs. SharePoint, the fastest growing product in the company's history, is also arguably the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Microsoft Positions German Unified Communications Specialist to Ride the Online Wave
- For many years, Munich-based infoWAN Datenkommunikation GmbH has wanted to provide a true enterprise-class online messaging and collaboration option to clients. It first explored such an offering 10 years ago, but the costs were too high. Today, though, the cost of an online solution can be lower than the cost...
- Case studies 2009-10-19
- Psystar Open(Q)
- If nothing else, Psystar's OpenQ should serve as a message to Apple that it's long overdue in bringing quad-core CPUs to its mainstream desktops. Because as much as the OpenQ lacks Apple's design polish, this $799, illicitly OS X-based midtower runs circles around Apple's $1,499 24-inch iMac on our benchmarks....
- Product reviews 2009-10-09
- Information workers loaded with tech they don't use, need
- my thoughts . . ."Workers have too much technology and software licenses when they?d really be happy with just a browser, email and a few handy social networking tools."In other words, you think that the only form of productivity is endless chatter.IMHO the real productivity tools are the ones you...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- HTC Imagio (Verizon Wireless)
- Verizon Wireless' V Cast video and music service bundle has long been a staple feature of its high-profile feature phones, like the LG enV Touch and the Samsung Rogue for example. But it is typically lacking in Verizon's smartphone offerings, so as not to detract from the smartphone's more business-friendly...
- Product reviews 2009-10-06
- Kiloutou Achieves More Detailed Financial Reporting and Speeds Up Annual Closing by One Month
- Kiloutou wanted to support a strong growth plan, as determined by management, towards the goal of opening 100 new outlets and make financial reporting quicker and more detailed. The challenge was to provide companywide management rules and a single database to cover customers, suppliers, and rental inventory and enhance administrative...
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- iWork '09 adds security to Web service
- Apple's iWork '09 productivity suite ($79) enjoyed an upgrade to version 9.0.3 today. The update addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, updates the help, and fixes a number of other minor issues in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers according to Apple. The 66MB update addresses issues with...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards
- On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- HTC Touch Pro2 (Verizon Wireless)
- Photo gallery:HTC Touch Pro2 Verizon WirelessThe HTC Touch Pro2 is making the rounds to the various carriers; first showing up at T-Mobile, then to Sprint, and now Verizon Wireless. Verizon's version of the Windows Mobile smartphone isn't all that different from the other models, delivering a powerful business device capable...
- Product reviews 2009-09-22
- Google Apps vs. Office Web Apps: Can Microsoft compete in the cloud?
- Lets's see, what's the most appealing......the cloud solution that has a fully integrated desktop suite that matches it or the one that doesn't?In other words your headline is the wrong way round.RE: Google Apps vs. Office Web Apps: Can Microsoft compete in the cloud?Nice job with the headline that get's...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
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