A new licensing program being put in place by Microsoft will force the majority of its business customers to either upgrade to Office XP before Oct. 1 or pay a heftier purchase price later, analysts ...

Microsoft is hoping that its star player is still a box office favorite. While Microsoft's upcoming Windows XP operating system and Xbox game console may grab the headlines, nothing beats the ...

REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 28, 2001 — Microsoft Corp. today announced a corporate preview release of Office XP, the new version of Microsoft® Office, the world’s best-selling desktop application suite.

Microsoft on Thursday released the first major collection of bug fixes for its Office XP business software. Service Pack 1, a 17MB download, is supposed to enhance Office XP's performance, security ...

To be fair, software's never had much sex appeal--and that goes double for office software. How exciting can spreadsheets get? Unless you're an accountant, not very. That's the problem Microsoft is up ...

NEW YORK, May 31, 2001 — Today at the Office XP product launch, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp.’s chairman and chief software architect, explained how Office XP delivers the next generation of ...

Microsoft is cutting the retail price of its Office XP Standard and Professional software suites and that of several stand-alone Office applications, the company said Tuesday. Effective Wednesday, the ...

May 31 -- Microsoft announced today a new version of its highly popular Office software. Called Office XP, it is what Microsoft co-founder and Chairman Bill Gates calls, “A product for the entire ...

With Office XP, Microsoft proves that it gets the message, finally: Users want to decide for themselves how their software works. And they'll be able to do just that with the forthcoming release of ...

Microsoft has woken up and made Office XP smarter in the way it helps you. They have added Smart Tags, small icons that appear to help users manage work; Task Panes, little panels in applications to ...

Rather than trying to present a lengthy review of a terrifically complex software package, most of which has been covered elsewhere, let's just list some of the salient elements of Microsoft Office XP ...