...people and developers will be able to add value to our network by being able to add this to computer games, productivity applications and anywhere else they want," said Georges Harik, director of product management at Google. The new Google...

...Mac-o-philes, but often on a delayed and sporadic schedule. The Microsoft Office suite (primarily the business "productivity" applications of Word, Excel and PowerPoint) eventually made its way to both platforms. Yet Microsoft Access -- the flashy...

...100-megahertz models at sub-$800 prices. These cheap systems are satisfactory for Internet surfing and traditional productivity applications such as word processing and spreadsheets, even if they'll never cross over to the Promised Land of super...

...100-megahertz models at sub-$800 prices. These cheap systems are satisfactory for Internet surfing and traditional productivity applications such as word processing and spreadsheets, even if they'll never cross over to the Promised Land of super...

...Microsoft customers were outraged, for example, when the company released a version of its Office suite of productivity applications two years ago that created files that couldn't be read by earlier versions of the software. The reorganization...

...the low end of this year's crop of PCs. But speedwise, I found it more than adequate for Web browsing and productivity applications; after all, it does have a big-time 56 Kbps v.90 modem, a 3.2 gigabyte hard drive and 32 megabytes...

...that mass storage on even the lowest-cost systems are adequate for most beginners to use for what we call productivity applications. Buy a computer with at least a 2-gigabyte drive, and you'll be more than fine. You want to make sure...

...looks for Windows 95 software and software applications for word processors, spreadsheets and other personal productivity applications. It also will search for new drivers for modems, CD-ROMs, sound cards and other accessories. You can find...