Microsoft has released its second service pack today for Office 2007. The service pack will provide a slew of minor updates that will improve functionality for the Office program. Most of the new features will allow for performance enhancements as well as support for more file formats. You can download the service pack through the more »

In addition to the release of the generally available public release, IBM has announced for-pay software support help to accompany its Lotus Symphony office productivity software. Lotus Symphony is a direct competitor to the market leading Microsoft Office suite, and joins a legion of alternative productivity suites, including Google Apps. The software itself, which includes full-feature word processing, presentation design, and spreadsheet application, is free, though many companies have expressed concerns about the long term sustainability of free software. IBM’s move lends credence to Symphony as a genuine alternative, by following a more conventional for-profit business model in the deliver of software.