Microsoft's hardware partners in the venture-- Philips Electronics ( PHG) , Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people) and Mitsubishi--are working on new WebTV units that run Windows CE and, like palmtop computers, can run stripped down versions of Microsoft Excel and Word.
In some ways, that's not so different from Microsoft's strategy: put its operating system, and applications such as Word and Excel, onto hardware from HTC, and later on, other manufacturers.
I've never run the Mac version of Microsoft Office and am a bit nervous about seamless compatibility with Windows versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
After all, professionals are among our most robust users and providers of feedback for software like Microsoft Word and Excel, as well as communication and collaboration applications like Outlook and SharePoint.
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Like other products in the MimoMonitors.com line of USB mini-monitors, the Mimo Magic Touch also allows users to de-clutter their crowded, primary desktop monitor and offload popular business applications such as web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, Skype, and instant messaging.
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However, we found ourselves most impressed by the customized versions of ThinkFree Office Mobile, which enable dual-screen viewing and editing of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents, plus PDF viewing to boot.
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Microsoft says that Office Home and Student 2013 RT, which contains new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote applications, will be included on ARM-based Windows 8 devices, including Microsoft Surface.
AcerCloud Docs lets users access the most updated files in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
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Charles Simonyi is a former Microsoft guru who helped create popular office programs such as Word and Excel.
It helped push programs like Microsoft Word and Excel past once-seemingly invincible competitors such as WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3.
It hopes they will become the killer aps of the new platform, rather as Word and Excel were for Windows.
The latest versions of Office, the software package that includes Word and Excel, enable users to share files and collaborate.
Surface comes pre-loaded with full (not trial) versions of high quality Microsoft productivity apps Word, Excel and Powerpoint, so the basics of productivity are covered.
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The program then destroys a host of files based on file extension, specifically targeting C language code files, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, among others.
For instance, four years ago Google launched online knockoffs of Microsoft Word and Excel (albeit with less functionality), with no response from Microsoft to protect those franchises.
Mr. Pichai also said that people will be able to use the touch screen to work on documents created by Microsoft Office programs such as Word and Excel.
Applications: Microsoft's productivity suite of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
It can't delete mail from the inbound server, either, but it can display Word and Excel attachments with the help of cut-down versions of the programs included in the package.
Unless you fancy using three different machines to run Word, Excel and PowerPoint, give credit to the fathers of Eniac, the first reprogrammable computer: John Mauchly, Presper Eckert and John von Neumann.
Google ( GOOG - news - people ) launched online knockoffs of Microsoft Word and Excel (albeit with less functionality), with no response from Microsoft to protect those franchises.
While there are plenty of third-party apps that can handle Office documents, release of the official apps is likely to be of great interest to those who work a lot with Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents when out and about.
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In another sign of the times, Microsoft is much more generous in offering free online versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, though these come with very limited functionality and carry (for now) in-house ads seeking to make you a subscriber.
While we don't do lab tests, in our real office tests of transferring Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Word and Excel files, the machines equipped with Airport Extreme cards clearly outpaced those using the older ones.
Polaris offers easy viewing and editing of a wide range of Office documents, enabling you to work with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and even PDF files while on-the-move.
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Simonyi later designed Microsoft Word and the Excel spreadsheet program, and hired many of the company's early big thinkers.
At that point, the virus installs a program that renders the computer unable to launch any "executable" applications, such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
While the Ribbon interface is, with time, more intuitive and a better guide to useful new features, complex tasks in PowerPoint, Excel, Word or Access require a combination of training and support throughout the migration process that an internal help desk may not be prepared to offer.
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The online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access seem every bit as good as their desktop counterparts.
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