Facing 'new world of work,' Microsoft locks up Office
Posted by malebolgia on 24 May 2005 - 21:17 · 5 comments & 764 views
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#1 Posted by Kevine on 24 May 2005 - 23:14
- The description you provide has nothing to do with the title.
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#1.1 Posted by Kushan on 24 May 2005 - 23:48
- Actually it does. Besides, if you don't like it, blame News.com
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#1.2 Posted by boogerjones on 25 May 2005 - 04:46
- I agree with you, Kevine, the description is poor. It would've been better to summarize the article instead of using the first paragraph. But that would've been difficult, because I've never read an article more vague than this one. Kushan: blame News.com for Neowin's posts?
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#2 Posted by sphbecker on 25 May 2005 - 14:28
- I am trying to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act now. It is amazing how simple some of their requests seem like they should be to implement, yet the software just does not support it. I am looking forward to some help from software venders soon (too bad it will probably not help me for the 2005 audit).
In the early days, workers used an array of floppy disks to shuttle documents created with the programs from department to department. E-mail let the files become even more far-flung, easily moving them among branch offices around the globe. But with the advent of federal record-keeping regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which impose strict rules on how companies manage and archive information, those freewheeling days are nearly at an end. That's a big deal to Microsoft, which wants to make sure that however the rules change, businesses are still using Excel (and Word and PowerPoint) for their computerized files.
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