Neowin News Feed for: Docs

Microsoft Office to Google Docs conversion is better

Andrew Stevenson — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:34:19 +0000

In a post on their Enterprise Blog, Google show just how far they've come in offering a better experience when working with, and converting, Microsoft Office file formats to Google Docs. Read more...

Google Docs to get cloud printing, syncing, and third party apps

Benjamin Rubenstein — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:16:53 +0000

Google Docs has undergone some nice changes in the past year. However, none of those changes compare to what Google seems to have in store for its cloud-based office suite. Google Operating System, a website... Read more...

Microsoft Office web apps surpasses 20 million users

Andrew Lyle — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:19:37 +0100

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that they have surpassed 20 million users on their Office Web Apps. Microsoft released their web apps in the summer, which included Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft was largely unchallenged in... Read more...

Google Docs gets web fonts, Google Font API

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:12:37 +0100

As part of an ongoing improvement of the Google Docs platform as a collaboration tool, Google is now implementing web fonts as part of its word processing repertoire. Typically, text on a webpage is... Read more...

Google Docs getting major update

Benjamin Rubenstein — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:38:01 +0100

With the release of Microsoft's Office Web Apps imminent, Google understands the need to step up their game. The current version of Google Docs proves great as a collaboration tool, but, admittedly, contains... Read more...

1st AutoRun Express 3.1: create autorun CD fast, now run several docs at once

Green Parrots Software — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:52:33 +0100

Let your CD or DVD automatically open your documents or display a menu when your disk is inserted into the user's computer. Create autorun disks in a few clicks, no design or programming required! All... Read more...

Google Docs Aims At Microsoft Office Live With 'Gears'

Soumya Sengupta — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:10:06 +0100

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Google took an important step forward Monday in its rivalry with Microsoft Office Live, reporting that Google Docs will allow users to edit word processing documents offline. Google said users of its Google Docs word... Read more...

DOJ, states concerned about Vista antitrust docs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:43:50 +0000

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The U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general are concerned that Microsoft is revising deadlines that it agreed to as part of its antitrust settlement. At issue are changes that Microsoft says it needs... Read more...

Microsoft commits to XML docs for long term

malebolgia — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 19:42:31 +0000

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Responding to a request from the European Union to improve data interoperability, Microsoft has committed in perpetuity to a royalty-free license of Office-related XML document formats. However, the software giant decided not... Read more...

Acclaim officers prep to file bankruptcy docs today

malebolgia — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 05:01:59 +0100

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Company will seek to liquidate assets and pay off as many debts as possible; public announcement to follow as early as tomorrow. Reliable sources close to the executive management team of Acclaim... Read more...

Microsoft: .Net Passport 2.1 docs

me101 — Wed, 21 Nov 2001 22:22:49 +0000

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Microsoft today released this doc (actually it's a help file!) which is the .Net Passport SDK v2.1, (file dated 16th November 2001). Changes include details for the following features :-User control over the... Read more...