A new licensing program being put in place by Microsoft will force the majority of its business customers to either upgrade to Office XP before Oct. 1 or pay a heftier purchase price later, analysts ...

Microsoft on Wednesday plans to release its second collection of bug fixes, or service pack, to Office XP, the company confirmed Tuesday. Service Pack 2, a 15MB download, is supposed to enhance Office ...

Microsoft has temporarily nixed a controversial plan to sell Office XP on a subscription basis to some U.S. customers. The surprising turn in positioning comes less than a month before Office XP's ...

How Microsoft hopes it will happen: "I hope everyone upgrades before April 8, 2014!!!" How it will actually happen: "So XYZ big corporation just got hacked using a Windows XP exploit and Microsoft isn ...

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 ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY--When our colleagues at AnchorDesk asked us to cough up one more column on Microsoft Office XP in honor of its launch this week, we wracked our brains trying to come up with something left ...

Microsoft Corp. yesterday introduced the latest version of Office, called XP, holding more than 100 lavish events throughout the country in an attempt to entice people to invest in an upgraded ...

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, ...

MICROSOFT ON MONDAY will execute one of its first attempts to harness the desktop as a strategic element of its Web services platform with the delivery of its Office XP Web Services Toolkit. The new ...

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will announce at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto a revamped "Desktop Deployment Initiative" that provides partners with more business investment ...