With unified communications,
information workers will be able to access voice mail and fax data alongside existing E-mail, calendar, contact, and task data, and even manage their E-email, calendar, and personal contacts using the telephone.
Microsoft hopes that Office 12 will be the package that converts technological developments in servers and communications into a qualitative shift in the way
information workers go about their business.
Elusive goal of better usability: The dirty little secret of most content technologies is that
information workers don't like to use them.
Today, Microsoft is a $40 billion company - 53% larger than in 2001 - and its Client and
Information Worker business units still account for 58.4% of that total.
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The trust gained National Lottery money a year ago to employ an
information worker and an assistant with the aim of raising the profile of the charity and expanding services to haemorrhage survivors.
'This new service is for any young person in the county borough who is feeling confused or worried about some aspect of their lives,' says youth
information worker Bethan Jones.
"UpsideContract-Office is a great example of how our partners can extend the value of the Microsoft Office 2003 Editions by building on top of it to create new solutions for their customers," said Dan Leach, group product manager for the
Information Worker Product Management Group at Microsoft Corp.
'I've already been given newsletters and photos from the 1980s,' said Maria Harvey, the
information worker heading the history project.
The company said it would help the average
information worker save 30 minutes a day.
"Toshiba's focus on delivering products that meet the needs and work style of today's mobile users makes the inclusion of OneNote a natural fit on their portable computers," said John Vail, director,
Information worker product group at Microsoft.
have announced PaperPort Link Agents, extensions to ScanSoft PaperPort Pro 9 Office, that enable the distributed capture and automated processing of documents by every
information worker within an organisation.