Built-in tracing and improved drawing, formatting and colour correction make X3 the best CorelDRAW upgrade in years.

A powerful high-end suite with a lot of potential. Make sure you have a high-end system to run it as the listed system requirements are very optimistic.

A suite with some nice features but slow startup times made us disappointed with ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2009

Our pick of the low-cost office suites has had a much-needed overhaul, and now battles Microsoft in terms of features, not just price.

Since the launch of PC Authority magazine 30 issues ago, we have placed an emphasis on the concept of computing in the real world. This means that all the PC hardware that passes through our Labs is t

Encarta Premium Suite claims a base of 130,000+ articles, along with 25,300+ photos and illustrations and 1.8 million map locations. That's more than a bit of bedtime reading, although of course there are really only two reasons why people buy digital encyclopedias these days -- either they've got kids to educate, or they're after some verifiable and quotable facts for a research project. For almost anyone else, of course, there's Google.

OpenOffice.org has unveiled the third iteration of its open source productivity suite. The software is available as a free download for PC users and as a native Mac OS X application for the first time..

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Corel has announced a new Microsoft Office-compatible suite of business tools designed for home workers and consumers.

A fully digital multitrack audio production suite for under $2,500

A bold drive whose attraction proves more than skin deep with great performance and a generous software suite.

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It's an accepted fact that most Microsoft Office users only ever use about 20 percent of the suite's capabilities, often because they don't have the time to learn about all of the goodies it contains. Excel, with its complicated interface and feature overload is notorious for baffling even experienced users. However, many of its features are very useful in their own right.

PC-cillin is no longer just an anti-virus program - it is a full internet security suite that includes a personal firewall and spam filtering - and it costs between $20 and $40 less than the equivalent Norton product.

One of the few projectors to edge up to the $5,000 cut-off mark for this Labs, the Panasonic PT-AE300E proved to be bit of a powerhouse in our test suite.

For as long as the Labs has been running, Dell has been a regular participant, and has also been a consistent performer.

This Linux Workstation package is a high performance choice for Linux on the desktop. It comes with a powerful office productivity suite - StarOffice - which allows for full Microsoft Office compati