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Microsoft is trying to counter Google by overhauling Windows Live Hotmail with new online editing capabilities for Office documents, and more than two dozen other enhancements for business and home users. Microsoft’s refresh of Hotmail is being announced Tuesday, less than a week after the release of Microsoft Office 2010. [ Take a look inside [...]

Central Desktop’s hosted collaboration suite will gain a new component next month designed to let multiple users simultaneously work on the same Microsoft Office documents. Called Central Desktop for Office, the new tool will allow users to collaborate on Word, PowerPoint and Excel files while the Central Desktop platform keeps track of the changes and [...]

Exploits of Adobe’s PDF format jumped dramatically last year, and continue to climb during 2010, a McAfee security researcher said Wednesday. Microsoft, meanwhile, recently said that more than 46 percent of the browser-based exploits during the second half of 2009 were aimed at vulnerabilities in Adobe’s free Reader PDF viewer. [ Check out the Q&A [...]

Facebook and Microsoft have teamed up on an online document-sharing service that looks more than a little like Google Docs. Docs.com went live on Wednesday at Facebook’s F8 conference. The site allows Facebook users to log in using Facebook Connect and create, edit, and share Microsoft Office documents with their Facebook friends. New documents will [...]