FrontPage used to pride itself on its almost code-free approach to Web design, but not any more. Top of the new coding features is the Split View, which combines layout and HTML views. There are also improved code formatting and Auto-complete features, providing a drop-down list of context-sensitive options as you type. Auto-complete also handles regularly reused code snippets and works with HTML, CSS, XSL, JavaScript, JScript, VBScript and ASP .NET, which are all directly editable.

Much improved, but IE still lags behind Firefox 2 in terms of innovation, features and security.

Microsoft has four key 'visions' for Pocket PC 2003 (PPC 2003): make it easier for manufacturers to innovate, improve the 'wireless experience', bring easy instant messaging to the PDA, and expand the 'media experience'.

You might think making sense of numeric error codes is no big deal now that we've got the web, but it's not quite that simple yet.

Useful new features and a total interface overhaul make this the best Office ever.

Microsoft finally recognises that web authoring needs a standards-compliant tool, albeit on its own terms.

Now pitched at less experienced database users, this refresh is a mixed blessing.

What makes Publisher different is its automated approach to design through its colour and font schemes and huge range of publication templates. These are handled via the redesigned Task Pane, which now has a simplified Start panel offering drill-down access to project types split into print, Web and themed sets. Another ten attractive master sets increase the total to 45.

A worthy update to the most underrated of the Office applications — OneNote is now a must-have.