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Microsoft Office 12 (beta 1)

Microsoft Office 12 (beta 1)

Preview The next generation of the Microsoft Office system offers a new look and feel across its applications, with dynamic formatting tools and nimbler files.


PowerPoint 12 (beta 1)

PowerPoint 12 (beta 1)

Preview PowerPoint 12 reorganises its interface and dresses up presentations with a vast library of templates.


Excel 12 (beta 1)

Excel 12 (beta 1)

Preview This overhaul to Excel provides new charts to visually analyse complex data; its tools also respond to your behaviour.


Word 12 (beta 1)

Word 12 (beta 1)

Preview The next generation of Word drops its menu-based interface in favour of a system that hopes to read your mind, adding jazzed-up graphics and shrinking file sizes.


Outlook 12 (beta 1)

Outlook 12 (beta 1)

Preview Microsoft's desktop email client provides new skills for handling and sharing tasks, as well as a revamped search engine and built-in newsfeeds.


Inside Windows Vista Build 5231

Inside Windows Vista Build 5231

Preview The latest build of Windows Vista includes more tools for system diagnostics and connection, plus a more finalised Internet Explorer 7. Here's a screenshot gallery.


Windows Vista: Build 5231

Windows Vista: Build 5231

Preview The latest build of Windows Vista includes more tools for system diagnostics and connection, plus a more finalised Internet Explorer 7. Here's a preview and a recap of Vista's progress to date.


Inside Vista's Windows Presentation Foundation

Inside Vista's Windows Presentation Foundation

Preview In build 5219 of Windows Vista, Microsoft puts its efforts into a new graphics engine.


Office 12 pre-Beta 1: screenshot gallery

Office 12 pre-Beta 1: screenshot gallery

Preview The next release of Microsoft Office shows a radical departure from earlier versions, as it gets more visual and adds tabbed browsing across all of the individual applications.


Microsoft Office 12 pre-Beta 1

Microsoft Office 12 pre-Beta 1

Preview Microsoft Office 12 pre-Beta 1 drastically revamps the user interfaces of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.


Google Desktop 2.0: screenshot gallery

Google Desktop 2.0: screenshot gallery

Preview Google plans to add more features when it finalises this desktop search tool and content portal. Here's what it looks like so far.


Google Desktop 2.0: a first look

Google Desktop 2.0: a first look

Preview Google's new desktop search utility includes a sidebar to display your local files, as well as your email inbox, Web history and more.


Windows Vista Beta 1: screenshot gallery

Windows Vista Beta 1: screenshot gallery

Preview Take a look inside the forthcoming operating system from Microsoft. Although it's not due for release until late 2006, a few features are worth checking out.


Dreamweaver 8: a first look

Dreamweaver 8: a first look

Preview The new Dreamweaver better displays CSS elements and lets you drag and drop XML feeds.


Macromedia Studio 8: a first look

Macromedia Studio 8: a first look

Preview Macromedia aims to jazz up Web-based animations, videos and mobile content while better integrating the five applications in its updated suite.



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