Tiffany Maleshefski

With the latest release of Apples office productivity suite, iWork 08, the Pages application moves into the ranks of full-fledged word processing applications. Previously known more for its page layout capabilities than for its word processing capabilities, Pages now enables users to switch seamlessly between writing and designing documents. In addition, the application offers 140 […]

Apples iWork 08 boasts improvements to the software suites word processing and presentation applications, but—more importantly—it fills the suites spreadsheet hole with Numbers. eWEEK Labs ran Numbers through its paces, and found it to be a strong addition to the productivity software market and a promising alternative to Microsoft Excel. The inclusion of Numbers certainly […]

The release of Office 2007 marked Microsofts first major default file shift since Office 97. This time around, Microsoft is offering a compatibility add-in that allows users of older versions of Office to read, edit and save word processor, spreadsheet and presentation documents in the Open XML formats new to Office 2007. Based on my […]

The first question a company asks when presented with a Microsoft Office alternative is how well the software supports Microsofts de facto standard file formats. Based on eWEEK Labs testing experience with productivity applications based on the Open Document Format standard (the most prominent of which are Suns StarOffice and its open-source sibling, OpenOffice), document […]

Sun Microsystems ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office wont usher in an era of universal document interoperability, but eWEEK Labs believes it is the best option currently available for adding Open Document Format support to Offices massive installed base. The plug-in, which Sun debuted on July 4 in the form of a freely downloadable 30MB installation […]

Going head to head with Microsoft 2007, the latest version of the free-for-all OpenOffice.org touts across-the-board improvements in the softwares word processing, spreadsheet, database and presentation applications. However, the brightest aspects of OpenOffice.org 2.2, which began shipping at the end of March, are its price tag—free—and its impressively broad platform support. OpenOffice.org runs on: Windows, […]

OpenOffice.org, the open-source productivity project sponsored by Sun Microsystems, has moved forward on its long-awaited Mac OS X-native port by releasing “Aqua,” the alpha version of the suite. The release, which hit the Internet on June 5, comes six years after OpenOffice.org announced a Mac port. Though OS X is Microsoft Windows biggest desktop rival, […]

For all its ubiquity, low cost and cross-platform friendliness, theres no disputing that e-mail is, at best, a mediocre tool for conducting ad hoc collaboration. Project threads can quickly get out of hand, and the large files that team members must shuttle back and forth can leave users scrambling to trim their mailboxes to stay […]

The productivity applications that anchor Microsoft Office—Excel, PowerPoint and Word—are chock-full of features for embedding images and objects into companies office documents. While media-rich documents can offer advantages, their typically large file sizes can quickly add up to clogged mailboxes, brimming storage servers and long waits to open these large files. Enter NXPowerLite 3.0.2, the […]

Belkin wins points in the ease-of-use category with its Pulse Network Monitor, a new device and hosted service duo thats geared toward IT technicians or network managers charged with overseeing the networks of small and midsize businesses. In eWEEK Labs tests of Pulse, which shipped April 18, we found that the product offers the advantages […]