Microsoft Office still rules at work, study shows

Take our 'Microsoft Word at 30' quiz iPad rumors swirl before Apple's announcement today Network World Daily News AM October 22, 2013 Share this email Microsoft Office still rules at work, study shows In the office, people still prefer Microsoft Office. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Take our 'Microsoft Word at 30' quiz 2. iPad rumors swirl before Apple's announcement today 3. BlackBerry Messenger relaunches for Android, iPhone after month delay 4. From small to big: 5 tips for managing clouds at scale 5. Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Not Asking Too Much Edition 6. Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive 7. Apple to release 4K TV set in 2014 - Report 8. France summons US ambassador over allegations of spying on phone calls and industry 9. Java forever! 12 keys to Java's enduring dominance 10. First look: Microsoft Remote Desktop apps for iOS and Android 11. AT&T looks 28 years into the future of cell towers RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: BlackBerry Get off to a great start When you install BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10 you qualify for 30 days of complimentary support to get you started using the software to its full potential. Also, all purchases of annual BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 licenses come with complimentary BlackBerry® support, including 12x5 access to technical experience, online support and more. Learn more about the support services that are available once you've downloaded BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10. Take our 'Microsoft Word at 30' quiz Everybody knows Microsoft Word now, but what do you know about where it came from? READ MORE iPad rumors swirl before Apple's announcement today Rumors are still rife before Apple's announcement tomorrow afternoon where the company is widely expected to reveal two new tablets, successors to the full-sized iPad and the smaller iPad mini. READ MORE BlackBerry Messenger relaunches for Android, iPhone after month delay Nearly a month after problems delayed release of its BlackBerry Messenger apps for iPhone and Android, BlackBerry said it had relaunched the app on Monday. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: SAP Transition to the 3rd Platform for Enterprise Applications The tech industry is in the midst of a major transition brought about by the combination of four forces. Since the lifetime of an application software package in a business is significant, application buyers need to consider support for the 3rd Platform. Learn more From small to big: 5 tips for managing clouds at scale The enterprise adoption of cloud computing resources has taken a precarious path. Many organizations have started by running small workloads in the public cloud, reticent to use the platform for bigger mission-critical workloads. READ MORE Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Not Asking Too Much Edition Here's No. 18 in our Geek-Themed Meme of the Week series and while I did not author it myself I could not possibly agree more with its sentiment. If an article does not carry a date, I'll just go ahead and assume that it's too old to matter. Next. Want more? Check out the "Geek-themed Meme of the Week Archive": READ MORE Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive They are inescapable on the Internet. Most are awful. A few are not, so we have started publishing a selection of memes that amuse me. One every week. Here's the archive. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: New Relic Secure, Reliable & Proven APM for the Enterprise Your organization depends on your web applications to do business -- from customer facing eCommerce,banking or travel applications, to mission-critical applications for your employees or partners. When it comes to performance, visitors' expectations for service and reliability are high. Read Now Apple to release 4K TV set in 2014 - Report Well here's a wild rumor for you ahead of Apple's upcoming special media event. Bloomberg late on Monday relayed an analyst report from Advanced Research Japan Co. claiming that Apple in late 2014 has plans to release a 4K HDTV in 55 and 65-inch form factors. These HDTVs will reportedly feature a frameless design, which isn't all that different from some of the higher end Samsung LED models currently... READ MORE France summons US ambassador over allegations of spying on phone calls and industry French foreign minister Laurent Fabius has summoned the U.S. ambassador to explain allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on French telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent and gathered data on millions of phone calls. READ MORE Java forever! 12 keys to Java's enduring dominance It's easy to forget the value of any given technology once its buzz has arced across our collective consciousness and died a fiery death beyond the hype horizon. Take Cobol, that "Mad Men"-era relic -- just like fish past its prime, as the hipster tech pundits say: worthless, smelly, out of date, bad for you. Java may be the next enterprise mainstay to find itself on the ropes of "relevance." READ MORE First look: Microsoft Remote Desktop apps for iOS and Android Late to the game, Microsoft releases Remote Desktop apps for rival mobile platforms, but they're bare-bones at best -- and where's the WinPhone version? READ MORE AT&T looks 28 years into the future of cell towers What will you be doing over a mobile network in 28 years? Whatever it is, AT&T and cell-tower company Crown Castle want a piece of it. 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