Office XP has been derided by some members of the press as a warmed-over upgrade with few new features. But this is clearly not the case: I enumerate through many of the new features here, and some of them--notably Smart tags--are actually quite...

Since its humble beginnings as the weakest link in Office 97, Outlook has grown into an essential tool for millions of people, myself included. At the time of this writing, I'm averaging over 150 email messages per day, and I use Outlook's...

The Office product line enters an interesting gray area with this version, as Microsoft is in the opening phase of a transition to the Web-based services that will define its .NET ("dot net") strategy for the future. A massive, monolithic product...

When I received my copy of Office 10 Beta 2 at Fall COMDEX in November 2000, I did what any self-respecting computer geek would do: I found a (relatively) quiet corner somewhere (in this case, the side of the stage at one of Microsoft's product...

Microsoft Office 10 Beta 2 requires Windows 98, 98 SE, Millennium Edition (Me), NT 4.0 with SP6a or higher, or Windows 2000. It will not install on Windows 95, 3.x, or NT 3.x, and is not currently supported on Windows XP ("Whistler"), though this...

The recent release of Office 10 Beta 1 has unearthed a slew of new features, including a subscription software service, voice control, and numerous simplification improvements that will help shape this release into a compelling upgrade over Office...

Almost a year after the release of Office 2000 (see my review), Microsoft has finally issued the first service release for the product, imaginatively dubbed Office 2000 Service Release 1 (SR-1). SR-1 includes a number of bug fixes to the po...

This package provides all the Office 2000 development tools you need ...

Terminal Services is a new application server in Windows 2000 that integrates the functionality from the previously separate Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server into the base Server operating system. As a terminal em...

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