New programs turning Office into a platform
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Office, Microsoft's collection of programs for business documents and tasks, is fast becoming a software platform unto itself. A growing number of software developers are creating programs that run on top of Office, in the same way that Office and thousands of other applications run on Microsoft Windows.
Plug-ins are available that make Word a lawyer-friendly word processing system or turn the Excel spreadsheet into a virtual financial adviser, along with hundreds of other programs that boost the capabilities of Office software.