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Reviews

Reviewed on September 19, 2007 Although still in beta testing, IBM Lotus Symphony offers strong alternatives to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel with more features and nicer interfaces than most other free software. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, spreadsheet, open source, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Windows

Downloads

Recover forgotten or lost passwords to Microsoft Office documents. TAGS: ElcomSoft, PGP Corp., password, data recovery, system administrator, Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

News

October 3, 2005 Office 12, due in late 2006, will let people generate PDFs from Office documents. PDF viewer is still required, though. TAGS: Office 12, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Corp., format, Microsoft Windows Vista, XML, support, document, blog, Microsoft Windows

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June 2, 2006 Breakdown in talks over the use of Adobe's PDF in Office leaves Microsoft bracing for an antitrust battle in Europe. TAGS: Microsoft Office 2007, Adobe Systems Inc., antitrust, Adobe PDF, regulator, XML, Microsoft Office, concern, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., printing, Europe, software company, CEO, operating system, Microsoft Windows

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June 2, 2006 Microsoft is tweaking its updates to Office and Windows in part to head off a legal challenge over use of PDF technology. TAGS: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, Adobe Systems Inc., computer company, Microsoft Windows Vista, Adobe PDF, antitrust, document, Microsoft Corp., format, Microsoft Windows, operating system

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October 3, 2005 And the new version will support for Adobe's PDF format. Office chief Steven Sinofsky talks about the move, as well as the brewing battle over file formats. TAGS: Office 12, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office, beta, mandate, Massachusetts, Adobe PDF, investment, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., format, HTML, Microsoft Windows

Reviews

Reviewed on September 19, 2007 Although still in beta testing, IBM Lotus Symphony offers strong alternatives to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel with more features and nicer interfaces than most other free software. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., spreadsheet, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft Windows XP, Adobe PDF, open source, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows

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October 20, 2005 Programmers release a major overhaul to the open-source software suite that has recently become a more serious rival to Microsoft Office. TAGS: OpenOffice, OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument Format, StarOffice, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, Microsoft Office, IBM Corp., user interface, open-source software, spreadsheet, Linux, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Corp., database, Microsoft Windows

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