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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft appears to be hell-bent on getting the next version of Office into customers' hands. Within days of launching the Office XP preview program, Microsoft has released final, or gold, code to ...

It appears that Microsoft is going to make its target shipping date for Office XP, its flagship suite of productivity applications. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is no slouch when it comes to revving up the publicity machine, and the company is going full throttle as it touts the newest release of its flagship desktop suite: Office XP. With about 130 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK – At the Office XP launch Thursday, Microsoft Corp. chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates argued the case that personal productivity software has not yet reached its pinnacle. The ...

If the dairy industry could get as much milk out of a cash cow as Microsoft, we'd need no more than a dozen cows to keep the whole country awash in dairy. Microsoft's word processor and spreadsheet ...

Among analysts and IT workers, the predictable yearly updates to integrated productivity suites inspire more yawns than excitement. Although Microsoft Office XP doesn’t set the desktop world on fire, ...

There are many people who install new versions of Microsoft Office as soon as the new releases arrive. Truly savvy techies, however, know to wait for the first service pack. And the wait is over for ...

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 ...