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 has temporarily nixed a controversial plan to sell Office XP on a subscription basis to some U.S. customers. The surprising turn in positioning comes less than a month before Office XP's ...

To upgrade or not to upgrade -- it used to be a choice for the millions of businesses that use Microsoft's Office, the software behemoth's ubiquitous suite of word processing, spreadsheet and e-mail ...

For the second time in nine months, Microsoft said it would not patch a vulnerability in an older product because creating a fix was “infeasible.” The omission leaves users running Office XP ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft officials said Monday that Office XP, the next version of its productivity suite, will be widely available on May 31, but users can get their hands on a trial version before that — for a fee ...

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 ...

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When Microsoft releases its Office 2003 suite in June, several new application bundles will join the Office lineup, including a high-end Professional edition and a new Small Business edition.