PreviousWordPerfect Office X3 Standard Edition review
Review Corel's WordPerfect Office X3 is a very good productivity suite with enough enhancements to warrant an upgrade. Microsoft Office users, though, should wait for Office 12.
7.0 Editors' Rating
Work Goes Mobile: Nokia's Lessons from the Leading Edge review
Review This book talks about Nokia's own corporate experience -- benefits and pitfalls -- of adding mobility to its business processes, and includes a lot of useful advice.
7.5 Editors' Rating
AutoRoute 2006 with GPS locator review
Review AutoRoute 2006 delivers good-quality output on-screen and in the form of verbal directions, but is perhaps best used for researching your journeys in advance.
8.0 Editors' Rating
Skype 2 (beta) review
Review Although Skype 2 suffers from middling voice quality when calling landline phones, it's still one of the best free VoIP services around, and its new Skype Video feature makes it even better.
7.5 Editors' Rating
Security and Usability review
Review Despite more than a decade of research into computer usability, most security products remain resolutely user-unfriendly. This book examines how the situation can be improved.
7.5 Editors' Rating
OpenOffice.org 2.0 review
Review OpenOffice.org 2.0, the freeware version of Sun's StarOffice 8, is a great deal for small-business users who don't mind browsing online forums for technical support. But enterprises are better served by StarOffice 8.
6.0 Editors' Rating
ThinkFree Office 3 review
Review ThinkFree Office 3 is a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office that lacks advanced tools but offers a free online component that's a handy work-in-progress for frequent travellers. Still, we'll wait for improvements to the suite before relying on it for staple office tasks.
5.3 Editors' Rating
Firefox 1.5 review
Review Although Firefox 1.5 isn't too different from the original release, what's new should attract even more Firefox users -- and that's ultimately good for the Internet.
8.0 Editors' Rating
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.
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.
PowerPoint 12 (beta 1)
Preview PowerPoint 12 reorganises its interface and dresses up presentations with a vast library of templates.
Excel 12 (beta 1)
Preview This overhaul to Excel provides new charts to visually analyse complex data; its tools also respond to your behaviour.
Inside Outlook 12 (beta 1)
Photos Microsoft makes a few changes to its venerable email client.
Inside Microsoft Office 12 (beta 1)
Photos The next release of Office reveals sweeping changes to the interface, graphics and tools within this productivity suite.
Inside Excel 12 (beta 1)
Photos Excel 12 is getting a drastic makeover, with XML-based files to boot.
