Microsoft Office Starter 2010 to replace Microsoft Works
US based software giant Microsoft has announced that they would replace MS Works with a special edition Microsoft Office Starter 2010.
Microsoft Office Starter 2010 would include Office Word Starter 2010 and Office Excel Starter 2010.
These applications would provide limited functionality and the users would [...]

Microsoft Office to come to Nokia mobile devices
Microsoft and Nokia have announced a collaborative deal which would see Microsoft providing their mobile Office suite for Nokia mobile devices.
Nokia has sold millions of smartphones powered by Symbian platform and Microsoft aims to provide their office productivity solutions to these users.
Microsoft would initially provide their solutions [...]

Microsoft updates Office 2008 for Mac
Microsoft has released an update for their Office suite for the Apple Mac platform.
Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.1 is now available for download from the company website.
The company said that this update would fix a bug that prevents Office applications from opening some Open XML documents.
Users are asked [...]

Google showing ‘view as HTML’ option for Microsoft Excel files in search results
Google has further enhanced Google Docs functionality in their search results.
They have already been showing a ‘view as HTML’ option for Adobe PDF files.
They are now showing a similar option for Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
So, the user no longer requires having a compatible [...]

Microsoft Office 2010 testing begins
US based software giant Microsoft has started testing their upcoming Office 2010 release with a select group of beta testers.
This would be an important update for this office productivity suite from Microsoft as it would include web based versions of the applications as well.
Microsoft is not providing access to [...]

Google Docs now support MS Office 2007 file formats
Google has announced that they have now added support for some new formats.
They have added support for .docx and .xlsx file formats which were introduced with MS Office 2007.
This means that Google Docs users can now import files made in MS Word 2007 and MS Excel 2007. [...]

Spreadtweet: Twitter client in Spreadsheet user interface
Elliott Kember has released customized version of Adobe Air powered Twitter clients that feature user interfaces of popular spreadsheet applications.
Why?
Probably just for fun. One good scenario is using this application in an office environment to avoid getting caught Tweeting during work hours.
The developer however warns:
Is this [...]

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 coming later this month
Software giant Microsoft has announced that the second service pack for their Office 2007 would arrive later this month.
This would be the first major upgrade to the MS Office 2007 suite since December 2007.
Microsoft would start delivering Office 2007 SP2 as an upgrade via Windows [...]

Microsoft Patch Tuesday – April 2009
US based software industry giant Microsoft has given out some information on their upcoming patch release.
Patch Tuesday for the month of April 2009 would include eight patches.
Five of these would be for critical flaws in Microsoft products. One of the patches is for the Microsoft Excel application.
The other [...]

Quickoffice for Apple iPhone coming this month
If you are looking for an application that can edit documents and spreadsheets on the iPhone, there is good news for you.
Quickoffice is working on a version for the Apple iPhone and it would be released sometime later this month.
The application suite would feature three components:
Quickword: Capable of [...]