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Article | 4/01/2007 Microsoft Office 2007 (Standard Edition)

Anyone who has followed Microsoft Office through its succession of lacklustre upgrades in recent years would be excused for yawning at the prospect of...

Article | 20/04/2006 SeaMonkey 1.0.1

Despite SeaMonkey's rough edges, its bundling of a browser, an e-mail utility, and an HTML editor in one package is appealing.

Article | 26/03/2006 Google Toolbar 4 Beta

Lately it seems as if everybody and their second cousin have attempted to follow Google's example by cobbling together a browser toolbar. Most of thes...

Article | 17/02/2006 Microsoft Works Suite 2006

We checked out a shipping version of Microsoft's home-user-centric Works Suite 2006. For $169.95 it includes the same four apps as the existing $100 W...

Article | 23/06/2005 New Acrobat lets readers chime in: Acrobat 7 Professional

If you need an easier way to share and comment on documents, take a look at Adobe's Acrobat 7 Professional. The $839 program lets you create Portable ...

Article | 19/05/2005 Netscape 8

Like something out of Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory, the programmers at Netscape have resurrected a browser that most Internet users had left for dead...

Article | 4/04/2005 Adobe Illustrator CS2 Beta

It's not often that a single new tool can genuinely transform how you use an application - especially a program as venerable as Adobe's Illustrator (a...

Article | 2/03/2005 Productivity deal: Works 8

Why sink hundreds of dollars into an office software suite with scores of features you'll never use?