A free, two-month evaluation version of Office Professional Plus 2013 is now available for those who'd like to try before they buy. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

Still far and away the most powerful, and now the easiest-to-use, worksheet app. Except for a few scientific and financial-analysis tasks, it's the first and only choice for manipulating numeric data.

Microsoft today released a customer preview of the next generation of Microsoft Office, which is optimized for both touchscreens and traditional desktops. While the new features of Office are ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...

PowerPivot is Microsoft's new self-service business intelligence (BI) product that seeks to make peace between IT and Excel users. PowerPivot is a component of SQL Server 2008 R2 that works with Excel ...

Microsoft officially announced pricing and packaging details for Office 2013 today. For Office customers, especially home and small business users, there are some surprises. In fact, you might need an ...

Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 last week with little or no publicity. Later, in a blog post today, Microsoft indicated that SP1 was released for Office 2013, Exchange 2013 ...

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One of the competitive differentiators for Microsoft’s Surface vs. the iPad is the availability of the core Microsoft Office apps, as highlighted by Microsoft in its recent criticism of the “watered ...