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Tired of spending hundreds of dollars upgrading your copies of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel every couple of years? This time around, you probably don't have to. That's because the latest version of Microsoft Office (Professional Edition: $499), which went on sale last week and encompasses 11 individual programs, four varieties of server software and a couple of add-on services, has surprisingly few improvements designed for individuals. It targets the corporate market--teams of office workers sharing documents, accessing corporate databases and filling out electronic forms. If you do most of your computing work on your...
...play," admits Stumberg, 36, who co-founded his company two years ago, after a lonely trip to Mexico when he came to appreciate two words in Spanish: Tengo Internet (translation: We've got Internet). At the RV park, Mac users report having the easiest time going wireless, and Microsoft XP works dandy too, while Millennium is nearly useless. Tight living quarters can play havoc with reception. Microwaving lunch while surfing wirelessly is a sure way to get disconnected. To keep out snoops and unwanted software, many RVers have installed a firewall and virus protection. Amazingly, nearly half arrive equipped with...
GAMES TO GO Built for Microsoft's Xbox video-game machine, the MN-740 module lets you go online wirelessly and do battle against anyone, anywhere...
...music on offer in certain countries." Europe's not completely frozen out: British firm OD2 provides the downloading and distribution backbone for Microsoft's MSN and Italy's Tiscali, offering 200,000 songs Europe-wide. Seattle-based RealNetworks plans to roll out its Rhapsody service here next year. But for now, Europeans who want legal downloads are mostly living with the pause button. The E.U.? You'll Fit Right In! Poland's economic troubles deepened late last week as the Polish zloty, wobbling with uncertainty over government fiscal policies, hit new lows against the euro (€1 equals 4.66 zlotys...
Team Synapse began communicating with Microsoft, but Zuckerberg says they backed out when they began to suspect that the multi-billion dollar corporation was going to rip them off. To ensure that they weren’t going to be taken advantage of, Zuckerberg and D’Angelo split the $12,000 price of a patent, confident that their company’s future profits would...