Tag archive: Microsoft Office 2010

More than three years after Google first fired its opening salvo against Microsoft Office with Google Docs, the sleeping Seattle giant has finally returned fire. On Tuesday, the company threw the switch on Office Web Apps – a competing suite of Web-based work applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. With an extra three years to learn – and improve on – Google's formula, not to mention decades of… Read More

Whether you love it or hate it, the majority of the world's corporations depend on Microsoft's Office software suite. Whether it is typing something up on Word or compiling data in Excel, many of us use a version of Office every day.

When it comes to Microsoft's software products, it doesn't get much bigger than Windows and Office. On the Windows front, Microsoft had a hugely successful launch of Windows 7 in October of last year. The launch went off without a hitch and the operating system has been well received by consumers and ever-critical members of the press. The next big software release from Microsoft will be Office 2010. The followup to Office 2007 is… Read More

Microsoft's bread and butter products are Windows operating systems and the Office productivity suite. These two products account for the bulk of the software giant's profits and as such, its fate is closely tied to the offerings.