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Microsoft Word 2007 beta 2

Word 2007 serves up new choices for editing, protecting, and jazzing up documents with graphics-heavy layouts -- all within a dramatically new interface.

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Microsoft Office 2007 beta 2

This latest version of the Microsoft Office 2007 system reveals the ongoing renovations due for Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

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Writely beta

Can Writely replace Microsoft Word? Yes, if you have stable Internet access and don't need a ton of editing and formatting features.

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Microsoft Office Live beta

Microsoft's suite of online tools is designed to help small businesses build and maintain a Web presence and manage projects, contacts, and tasks.

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Microsoft Office 2007 beta 2 (technical refresh)

Microsoft's last round of updates before the final release of Office 2007 is packed with subtle interface adjustments and new ways to personalise the applications.

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New Opera beta sports email, feed changes

For right now, the future of Opera — the browsing alternative to the browsing alternative — doesn't look a whole lot different from the present. Keeping in mind that this isn't a stable release, Opera 9.60 beta 1 for Windows and Mac looks to add a few feature tweaks and claims to be faster.

Adobe offers sneak peek of CS4 apps

Trials of early versions of the next Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth are available for download at Adobe Labs.

Mozilla's Firefox 3 beta: Improved but imperfect

The widely used open-source Web browser gets boosts in security, bookmarking and history search.

Flickr Video beta due in April

Yahoo executives say at a party that Flickr Video is "coming soon." Further investigation reveals that "soon" may be next month.

Office 2007: FrontPage is out, blogging is in

Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007.

Find files faster

Hard-disk real estate is so plentiful and cheap now, finding what we really want or need among the gigabytes of detritus is becoming an issue. We look at some popular programs to banish your file finding nightmares.

100 tips to speed up your software

Do more faster with these amazingly useful shortcuts.

DIY: Yahoo Hacks

CNET describes ways to use Yahoo for custom searches and to compare results against those of Google.

DIY: Desktop buying guide

What you need to know -- from finding the type of PC that fits your lifestyle to catching up on all of the latest trends.

Bluff it as a fashion photographer

Whether you're interested in a career in fashion photography, or just want to take impressive portraits of your friends, this is your essential guide to the latest techniques that photographers are using to get their work noticed.

Microsoft and Google give away office space

Microsoft and Google are offering free online packages to put your company's touch on its communications and to help build basic Web sites.

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet.

Browser battle: IE 8 vs Opera 9.5 vs Safari vs Firefox 3

A rundown on the latest versions of all the main browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Oh, and don't forget Flock!

Start-page smackdown: Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle and Live.com

Want to create your own homepage? We put four personalised start pages through their paces and rank them according to looks, features and performance.

Top 10 Google apps

CNET.com.au reviews Google's most compelling desktop and Web-based applications for communications, mapping, 3D drawing and more.

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WordPerfect Lightning beta

Collect your ideas, documents, and notes and reuse in a new way.

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Yahoo Messenger 3.0b3.126432 beta

Get access to Yahoo! Messenger chat sessions on your computer.

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Re-Name Me 2

Modify the names of your files and folders.

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OmniGraffle 5.1 beta 2

Easily create graphs and charts with this versatile tool that's optimized for OS X.

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Recovery for Word 3.1

Fix corrupted Microsoft Word documents.

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