"Office suites" news, interviews, and features

News about Office suites

• Microsoft releases Sway presentation service and new Windows 10 app

  A new tool makes it easier to create pretty and responsive online presentations

• LibreOffice gets major update with version 5, is now Windows 10 compatible

  New release adds support for Windows 10, levels up spreadsheet software and more

• Quip takes on Microsoft Office with desktop apps for Windows, Mac

  The productivity suite startup took another swing at Microsoft's market dominance with new software that

• Microsoft's Office 2016 preview gets real-time editing in Word and more

  New features also include support for hand-written equations and providing information through Bing

• Microsoft testing new Office 365 features to entice educators

  Microsoft is improving its education chops as school IT managers ramp up for a new year

• The US Navy's warfare systems command just paid millions to stay on Windows XP

  Windows XP and other obsolete systems remain critical to the Navy's operations

Features about Office suites

• Microsoft reveals Office 365 roadmap--here's what's coming

  Microsoft releases a list of features for upcoming Office 365 revisions, in a bid to publicly lure more customers to the platform.

• Microsoft's Office for iPad shakes up mobile enterprise

  Office for iPad brings us back to the glory days of tech's most celebrated and, at times, despised two-horse race: Apple versus Microsoft

• Google Apps, once a leader, faces growing Cloud app rivals

  Analysts say it needs to improve its unified communications and enterprise social efforts or risk being left behind

• Office for iPhone a belated, ambivalent move by Microsoft

  What users are really clamoring for is a full Office version for iPads, analysts say

• 10 Microsoft Word 2013 headaches and how to cure them

  Here's how to solve some of the most vexing problems in Word 2013.

• Why Office 365 and Office 2013 may not be right for you

  The new-look Office suite comes correct with handy tools and wonderful extras. But it also has a handful of potentially disastrous gotchas.