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Reports on the upgrades to Microsoft's Office application software Office FrontPage 2003 and Office Visio 2003 Standard. Advantages offered by Office FrontPage to new users; Applications and compatibility of FrontPage with other systems; Complex jobs in which Visio is used.

The article offers information on global positioning system (GPS) devices including the 7100 incar GPS hardware from the company Navigon, the Ask Mobile cell phone service from the company Ask.com, and the Streets & Trips software program from Microsoft Corp. Navigon's 7100 offers text-to-speech conversion of street names. It also provides traffic updates and lists hotels, restaurants, and other travel spots. Ask.com's Ask Mobile offers driving instructions over cell phone. Also mentioned are the difficulties associated with Microsoft's Streets & Trips software program, which include carrying GPS receiver and laptops while travelling.

The article reviews several search engines, including www.hakia.com from Hakia, www.vlingo.com from VLingo and www.tafiti.com from Microsoft.

The article evaluates the RoundTable video camera from Microsoft Corp.

The article reviews the web-design software Expression Web from Microsoft.

The article reviews the Windows Live Search web service from Microsoft.

The article evaluates two computer software from DeLorme and Microsoft and offers information on features, functions and costs.

The article evaluates the Microsoft Windows Live Toolbar 3 for Internet Explorer 6 and offers information on its features.

The article evaluates the Windows Live Search search engine software developed by Microsoft and offers information on its multimedia features and information retrieval performance.

The article reviews the productivity software Work Suite 2006 from Microsoft Corp. and offers information on its features, applications and capabilities.

The article provides information on the upcoming version of Microsoft Office computer operating system, to be launched in 2006. The software is currently called Office 12. Several changes were made in the new version. the Ribbon of Office 12 replaces the menus and toolbars found at the top of file windows. As a user select formatting options in the Ribbon, a Live Preview of the changes in the document is seen immediately. Unlike in previous where drop-down menu appear, in Office 12 when the user clicks one of the Command Tabs in Ribbon options change.

This article reviews the Works 8 application software from Microsoft. Microsoft's trusty, $50 Works 8 gives users all the word processing, spreadsheet, database, and scheduling features they are likely to need, without the triple-digit price of its bigger sibling, Microsoft Office. Users can even open and save files in Word's .doc, in Excel's .xls, and in other popular Office file types, as well as in the standard Works file formats. The updated word processor is more than adequate for most writing chores. It even includes a new dictionary and thesaurus with parental controls. Other noteworthy features includes, shareable calendars that users can post to the free lCalShare Web site, and automatic file backups that save open documents every 10 minutes.

Reports on tablet personal computers that will be made commercially available in 2003. Market boost provided by the November 2002 debut of Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition; Improvement of handwriting recognition.

Reviews Microsoft's FrontPage 2002, and view that it is a great intranet solution for workgroups, but still not up to running a large Web site. Features of the software; Prices of the software; Pros and cons of the software.

Evaluates Microsoft Works Suite 99, a computer software package. Features; Capabilities; Price; Contact information.

Offers ideas on several free Windows add-on programs. Feature added to Longhorn, Microsoft Corporation's next version of Windows; Steps involved in downloading a multiple virtual desktops feature; Way to print a list of folder's files.

This article focuses on the benefits of Microsoft's MSN Toolbar Suite product for users of Windows operating systems. In addition to its useful features, the suite aims to make finding files on hard disks as fast, easy and accurate as Web searches. The toolbars for Internet Explorer, Outlook , Outlook Express, Windows Explorer and folder windows are free. The three programs that comprise the MSN Toolbar Suite search disks and provide the same results based on a single shared index of email and local files. MSN Desktop Search is a stand-alone search application; the MSN Toolbar appears in the folder and Explorer windows; and the Deskbar resides in the taskbar. They search Outlook and Outlook Express email and attachments as well as Word, Excel and other Office files. They also index PDF-format files, text files and HTML-format files.