http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/09/microsoft.unveils.free.office.starter.2010/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/microsoftoffice2010-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft this week said that it would venture into free productivity apps with a Starter Edition of Office 2010 for Windows. The special version will be free to use but will have feature-reduced versions of Excel and Word as well as ads that run in a sidebar with the app window. It will only come with a new PC rather than come as a download, but it will have an option to download a more complet... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/09/microsoft.unveils.free.office.starter.2010/ Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/03/court.says.ms.can.sell.word.until.appeal.is.done/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/gavel-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The US federal Court of Appeals today granted Microsoft a temporary stay on an injunction that would have banned sales of Word until the conclusion of an appeal against the successful lawsuit filed by Canadian firm i4i. Originally, the developer would have had to stop sales on October 10th and would have forced Microsoft to shut down sales of virtually all copies of Office unless it could plead i... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/03/court.says.ms.can.sell.word.until.appeal.is.done/ Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/06/nisus.writer.pro.12.patch/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0709/nisuswriterexpress3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Nisus has released a v1.2 update to Writer Pro, its flagship word processing software. Pro differentiates itself from Express with features such as comments, mail merges, and the ability to create indexes and tables of contents. New to v1.2 is an upgraded import component, said to improve the accuracy of file translations, particularly in terms of Microsoft Word documents.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/11/06/nisus.writer.pro.12.patch/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/14/openoffice.30/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0810/14-oo-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />If you need an office suite for the Mac, your choices used to be limited to Microsoft Office 2008 or Appleís iWork. Unfortunately, neither option offered a complete solution. Office 2008 can share the latest file formats with Office 2007 for Windows, but the Mac and Windows versions of Office neither look nor work exactly alike. If youíre already familiar with Office 2007 on Windows, Office 2008 f... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/14/openoffice.30/ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/13/openoffice.30.goes.final/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0805/14-open-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Following extensive beta testing, the developers of OpenOffice have released the completed version of its v3.0 productivity suite. The software covers a variety of tasks, including spreadsheets, word processing and presentation work; editions are also available for a variety of different operating systems. The v3.0 update is said to be particularly important for the Mac, as users can now install... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/10/13/openoffice.30.goes.final/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/16/openoffice.3.beta.2/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0805/14-open-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Sun Microsystems recently unveiled OpenOffice 3.0b2, a new beta preview release of the next major version of its business productivity suite, adding a number of optimizations, features, and fixes. The new version introduces new regional grammar and numeric standards for Indian customers, as well as refined behaviour of editing filtered rows. Sun also introduced 'y axis' error bars, allowing users ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/16/openoffice.3.beta.2/ Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/22/eu.watching.ms.open.move/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0805/euflag.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />European Union officials will be watching Microsoft's open format support to ensure the developer's move remains honest, the European Commission said on Thursday. The regulatory body says it will specifically monitor the newly added support for the universal Open Document Format (ODF) to determine if it delivers on Microsoft's promises of interoperability with other programs, many of which alread... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/22/eu.watching.ms.open.move/ Thu, 22 May 2008 16:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/21/ms.office.supports.odf/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0805/office2007.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft today broke from its tradition of primarily endorsing in-house formats by revealing that it will add support to Office for a number of universal standards outside of its own. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support the Open Document Format (ODF) touted by OpenOffice, Sun's StarOffice, and other third-party tools as well as similarly universal document types such as PDF 1.5 and PDF/A. T... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/21/ms.office.supports.odf/ Wed, 21 May 2008 20:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/14/f.look.openoffice.3.beta/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0805/14-open-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Microsoft Office may be the most popular office suite in the world, but not everyone needs or wants to use it. Some people object to its cost, while others feel that it doesn't offer the features they need. If you don't want to use Office on Windows, you can choose from plenty of alternatives, including the free OpenOffice suite. Until recently though, Mac users have had far fewer options, limite... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/05/14/f.look.openoffice.3.beta/ Wed, 14 May 2008 19:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/22/native.aqua.openoffice/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0803/22-open-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The OpenOffice Mac porting team is reportedly working on a native Aqua version of its business productivity software suite, rather than simply porting the platform-independent Java version. The software is listed as being the third development snapshot, announcing a number of bug fixes and interface optimizations. OpenOffice says the newest version now uses a Mac OS X native print dialogue, and th... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/22/native.aqua.openoffice/ Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:50:00 GMT