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Microsoft cuts prices of all-in-one hosted productivity suite

Microsoft cuts prices of all-in-one hosted productivity suiteOpen_Source cost nothing....With the economy tanking with new regulationsthis will take the MS empire with it....Which regulations are those?We've had some regulations for decades...The last 30 years have seen lots of regulations in the US cut; many of which happened in the last...

Tags: Regulations, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, regulation, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, productivity suite

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Microsoft cuts prices of all-in-one hosted productivity suite

Microsoft announced on April 27 that it was cutting the price of its Business Productivity Online Suite BPOS -- the Microsoft-hosted bundle of its Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and LiveMeeting Online services -- through the end of June. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Productivity Suite, Strategic Planning, Collaboration, Microsoft Office, Content Management, Strategy, Management, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-04-27

NonProfit Improves Efficiency, Enhances Security With New Operating System and Productivity Suite

Even when organizations take pride in their traditional values, accomplishing their goals sometimes requires breaking tradition. The Austrian Union of Catholic Fraternities upgraded the software they traditionally had used in order to serve their members better. The Windows Vista Business operating system, along with the 2007 Microsoft Office system and...

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Productivity Suite, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Tools & Techniques, Security, Software, Management

Case studies 2008-04-28

Metasploit: A hacking productivity suite

Ryan Naraine reports that Metasploit 3.0 has been released with a bunch of preloaded exploits and other payloads. With Metasploit, its point, click and hack.After checking out the post and the gallery, my initial reaction was "oh great, just what we need easier means to hack." Second reaction after a...

Tags: SECURITY, hacking, productivity suite, Metasploit

Blog posts 2007-03-27

Daylite 3 Productivity Suite 3.2.2 (Mac)

Daylite 3 Productivity Suite helps businesses organize themselves with tools such as shared calendars, contacts, tasks, projects, and notes. Enable easy collaboration with features such as task and project delegation between users and never let things fall through the cracks. Create smart lists to find meaningful data fast - including...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Productivity Suite, Marketcircle, Productivity, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2007-03-19

Betwixt and between ODF, OO-XML, and Google, Corel discusses Wordperfect roadmap

Until very recently, if you or your company wanted to buy a "productivity suite" -- a package of software that includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, Powerpoint-like presentations, and a few other helpful utilities -- there were relatively few choices and none of them played well together. In other words,...

Tags: OpenDocument Format, Corel Corp., Office 2.0, Government, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Podcasts, General

Blog posts 2006-12-18

StarThor 0.5 (Mac)

StarThor makes it easy to install OpenOffice - for everyone. You don't need to be a power user to use that outstanding productivity suite. Not a single Terminal command involved!

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Productivity Suite, Stefan Lange-Hegermann, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2003-01-09

Ziata 5.1.0.1 (Windows)

Ziata! is an productivity suite of products that can be implemented by almost any office. It starts with implementation of the proprietary Pronexus database engine. Pronexus manages the data, while the productivity suite supplies a user-friendly suite of office applications. An excellent product for keeping track of work and resources...

Tags: Pronexus Inc., Microsoft Windows, Productivity Suite

Software downloads 2000-07-08

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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

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Strategic Planning, Collaboration, Strategy, Management, 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...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Beta, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software

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...

Tags: open source, software

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...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows

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...

Tags: Ubuntu, IBM Corp., Ubuntu 9.10, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Roi/Tco, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Christopher Dawson

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...

Tags: Keyboards, Smart phones, Handhelds, Cellular phones, High Tech Computer Corp., smart phone, AT&T Corp., Tilt2

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...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 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....

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Processors, Psystar, Snow Leopard, Apple Inc.

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...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, worker, social networking, e-mail, social networking tool, information worker, computer, desktop

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...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Corporate communications, Smart phones, Cellular phones, screen real estate, Verizon Wireless, HTC Imagio, High Tech Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2009-10-06

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...

Tags: Security, Web, Web Service, Apple Inc., Apple iWork, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Jason D. O'Grady

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. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Open Standard, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-25