Good office software still a suite deal January saw the launching of Microsoft Office 97, to generally enthusiastic reviews. These same home office people can be forgiven if they turn a deaf ear to Microsoft's main competition, Lotus SmartSuite 97, due out soon. The Lotus suite seems geared more toward big office use. Its great distinguishing feature is its emphasis on workgroup applications. Quarterdeck offers ideal way to handle remote computing For as long as I've owned computers, I've dreamed of being able to update files from my notebook to my desktop PC fast, easily, securely and reliably.
Dreams do come true.
Procomm RapidRemote from Quarterdeck sets up in minutes from one floppy disk on both host and client computer. And once you've configured passwords and other security issues, all you have to do is click on an icon and call. Or click on another icon and wait for a call - it's that easy to turn the client into a host and the host into a client. Iomega makes the Zip drive, recently written about in this column. Until recently, the internal version of the Zip drive was available only to computer manufacturers.