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- Revenue
- Jun 30 2008
- $60.4B
- Profit
- Jun 30 2008
- $17.6B
- Market Cap
- Dec 03 2008
- $176.7B
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Do Google Docs and Spreadsheets Pose a Threat to Office?
Compete submits: Two weeks ago, Google Labs announced new gadgets integrating Google Docs & Spreadsheets with GMail, just in time for the 2nd anniversary of the web-based productivity tools. The move may leverage GMail’s growing user base and facilitate growth at Docs & Spreadsheets as it inches closer to...
How Microsoft Aims to Remain Dominant
Despite the marked shift to Web software, Microsoft remains a dominant technology company and one of the biggest, most profitable firms in the world. The firm just made some of its first significant product direction announcements since Bill Gates officially left in late June. Who better to ask about the...
5 Questions for Mary Jo Foley, "Microsoft 2.0"
Despite the marked shift to Web software, Microsoft remains a dominant technology company and one of the biggest, most profitable firms in the world. The firm just made some of its first significant product direction announcements since Bill Gates officially left in late June. Who better to ask about the...
Microsoft: Office to Embrace the Web; One Less Profit Center?
Michael Arrington submits: Microsoft MSFT made a major announcement today - they will be offering “lightweight” versions of Office applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - through the browser. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari will be supported. Users will be able to read and edit documents from the...
Replace Pricey Microsoft Office with OpenOffice 3.0 (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Well, it's official: Open-source office suite OpenOffice is now a final 3.0 release. As you may recall, we talked up the beta version back in May, but for anyone who prefers to steer clear of unfinished software, your long wait is over. In case you've missed our...
The Microsoft Office Fluent User Interface: IT Decision-Maker Perception of Productivity, Training, and Support Requirements
This white paper presents the results of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft Corporation to help IT organizations considering adopting the 2007 Microsoft® Office system anticipate the impact of the new Microsoft Office Fluent™ user interface on their end users. The results are based on...
Microsoft Word Tip: Learn to Use Mail Merge
Arguably one of Word's most valuable features, mail merge automatically combines an address list with a document (business letter, mailing labels, etc.). Of course, as anyone who's tried it knows, using mail merge can be tricky. The above video walks you through the process, step by step. 'Nuff said! [via...
Does Chrome Challenge IE? Or is Microsoft the Real Target?
Google's new browser, code-named Chrome, has only been available in beta several days but already has garnered more publicity than John McCain's running mate. I haven't read every review, but most writers seem to agree Chrome has the potential to redfine the very nature of browsers and...
How to Open Open-Document (ODF) Files in Microsoft Office
Users of open-source office suites like Lotus Symphony and OpenOffice know that those programs can open Microsoft Office documents, but what if you're an Office user who needs to open an Open Document Format ODF file? You're outta luck, unless you install the OpenXML/ODF Translator add-ins for Office. ...
How To Buy Microsoft Office Software Cheaper Than Retail: There Are Alternatives To Paying Full Price
Microsoft Office is one of the most used programs in the world after Microsoft Windows. What is Office for the initiated? It is a collection of a core croup of programs provided as a collection of inclusive specific single programs to be able to install on a computer rather than...
Microsoft Pushes on Hosted Software
Microsoft is trying to crank up the hosted software front because it has to. The company has been in a quandary for years, trapped by its own success, with roughly 80 percent of its sales still coming from Windows- and Office-related software. That means the corporations and its investors have...
Should You Buy a Microsoft Office Subscription?
For some reason, Microsoft has decided to start renting an Office software package (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote and a security program called OneCare) to consumers for about $70/year. I'm assuming this subscription policy is an effort to gain back some of the market share they're losing to free programs like...
How Bill Gates (and Office) Changed Your Life
Happy Monday, and welcome to the first day that Bill Gates has not been a full-time employee of the company he created, Microsoft. Do you miss him? Love him or not one thing is true: Bill Gates, his company, and his products have had a profound influence...
Microsoft Word Tip: Clear Formatting from Pasted Text
The other day I showed you how to remove e-mail and Web hyperlinks from text copied and pasted into a Word document. Okay, but what about formatting? What if you want to rid pasted text of weird line spacing, italics, and the like? Turns out there's an easy shortcut for...
Microsoft Word Tip: Clear Hyperlinks From Pasted Text
When you copy text from an e-mail, Web page, or another source into a Word document, any URLs or e-mail addresses contained within that text usually wind up hyperlinked. Word offers no clear-cut method of removing those links. You can right-click one and choose Remove Hyperlink, but that's a pretty slow...
How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Word
As regular Business Hacks readers know, I'm a big fan of using keyboard shortcuts--especially in Microsoft Word. But there are some program functions, like Word Count, that don't have shortcuts assigned to them. Fortunately, it's an easy matter to set up shortcuts for just about any Word command. Here's the...
Replace Pricey Microsoft Office with Free Lotus Symphony 1.0
Lotus Symphony is a free office suite for Windows and Linux. It rivals Microsoft Office, offering business-caliber word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. And it's no longer in beta: IBM just announced Symphony's official 1.0 release. Though built on an OpenOffice core, Symphony bears little...
5 Classic Computer Pranks
Last Friday's "Top 5" post -- about the best office pranks -- got folks talking about shenanigans at work. One poster offered a gem about using the shimmer effect in Word, which got me thinking about a whole new class of goofs: mucking about with a co-worker's computer. ...
Microsoft Word Tip: Select Text Using Only Your Keyboard
If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word or any other word processor, it's high time you learned how to select text using only your keyboard. Why? Because it saves you having to reach for your mouse and lets you use other keyboard shortcuts more effectively. Here's how:...
Lunch and Learn - Microsoft Office 2007
Expand your office's knowledge of Microsoft Access 2007, Excel 2007, Outlook 2007, Word 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 with TechRepublic's Lunch and Learn: Microsoft Office 2007. With 16 ready-to-deliver presentations that cover beginner, intermediate, and advanced Office topics, we make it easy for you to quickly improve your organization's working...
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Microsoft Corp. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. William H. Gates III
Chairman
Mr. Steven A. Ballmer
Dr. James I. Cash Jr., Ph.
Ms. Dina Dublon
Mr. Raymond V. Gilmartin
Mr. Reed Hastings
Mr. David F. Marquardt
Mr. Charles H. Noski
Dr. Helmut Panke
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