A deal to offer students a cheaper version of Microsoft's Office XP software may be part of a larger plan for the software maker: Increasing sales of the productivity suite to consumers by slashing ...

Correction, 10:05 a.m. PDT April 8: This story misstated the type of support available after mainstream support ends next week. Under extended support, available for XP and business versions of Office ...

Among analysts and IT workers, the predictable yearly updates to integrated productivity suites inspire more yawns than excitement. Although Microsoft Office XP doesn’t set the desktop world on fire, ...

Brace yourself: I kind of like XP. I've always been rather leery of most Microsoft products. But XP is remarkably clean for a .0 operating system. You've probably read plenty of articles about XP's ...

I have around 23 copies of Office XP and have lost track of which copy is installed on which workstation. Is there any way to decipher the CD Key from just the installations on the workstations? I ...

NEW YORK — Goodbye Clippy. Hello smart tags. With much fanfare, including rock music and flashing lights, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today officially launched the ...

Microsoft Corp. launched its Office XP product last week in separate events all over the country, including one at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., that drew more than 5,000 people. Despite the ...

Microsoft has again painted a grim picture for customers who remain on Windows XP and Office 2003 after it ends support for the old OS and suite in early April, but it’s unclear if the company is ...

When Microsoft releases its Office 2003 suite in June, several new application bundles will join the Office lineup, including a high-end Professional edition and a new Small Business edition.

Microsoft is cutting the retail price of its Office XP Standard and Professional software suites and that of several stand-alone Office applications, the company said Tuesday. Effective Wednesday, the ...

According to information posted on Microsoft's Web site, the per-incident support cost for all Windows users is now $59. Before Jan. 30, when Microsoft released the retail version of Vista, the ...