Ahead of next week’s consumer launch of Microsoft Office 2010, the Friday Personal Technology column in the FT’s Business Life section looks at the improvements and web extensions to this venerable suite of productivity programs:
“When I first got a personal computer – an Apple II, nearly 30 years ago – I played Pong for fun, used WordStar for word processing and put numbers into VisiCalc, the pioneering spreadsheet program.
Eventually most so-called personal productivity applications coalesced into heavy-duty software suites such as Microsoft Office, WordPerfect Office, Apple’s iWork and the open-source Open Office. Today, one of their biggest challenges is to compete directly with web- or cloud-based versions, such as Google Docs .”
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