Tiffany Maleshefski

Low-cost notebook computers can be a boon to IT managers charged with slimming down their capital expense budgets, and Toshiba’s Satellite Pro A210, which boasts 2GB of RAM, a dual-core processor and a widescreen display, demonstrates that doing more with less doesn’t have to mean making do with underpowered hardware. For $899, the AMD Turion […]

10 Things You Should Know About Laptops IT managers have a lot of choices when it comes to outfitting their end users with notebook PCs. Rather than locking into one type of laptop for uniformity’s sake, however, why not ascertain a department’s or employees’ specific needs and build from there 10 Things You Should Know […]

OpenOffice .org 2.3 Impresses”> The release of OpenOffice.org 2.3 brings several significant improvements to the open-source office productivity suite, including easier upgrade paths for existing Microsoft Office users, improved measures to prevent security breaches, and an array of snazzy new features introduced in the suites word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and database applications. Meanwhile, all-around improvements […]

10 Things You Should Know About MS Office Alternatives Believe it or not, there are many choices available to IT managers considering switching from Microsoft Office to an alternative office productivity suite. A simple Google search will prove just how many competing suites are in the marketplace. StarOffice 10 Things You Should Know About MS […]

The greening of the technology industry is a trend thats developing with impressive velocity, and with good reason. According to the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, e-waste is the fastest-growing part of the waste stream, and the Environmental Protection Agency estimates e-waste accounts for 2 percent of the municipal solid waste stream in the United States. […]

The debut of Apples iWork 08 includes across-the-board improvements, such as new templates and text effects, and a few snazzy bells and whistles to its presentation program, Keynote. As with the rest of the iWork 08 suite, Apple is stressing Keynotes ease of use, billing the application as a means for anyone to create “cinema-quality […]

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, […]