News
December 1999
by Peter Mok
The Office Tools Evolution Looking back to the era of WordStar, MultiMate, Freelance, VisiCalc, Lotus 123 and dBASE, these innovative tools helped a lot in increasing the office productivity. People used these office tools to perform basic editing functions, advanced word processing functions ...
by Manfred Chan
What’s New in MS Office 2000? The most noteworthy feature in MS Office 2000 is its unprecedented integration with the Web. With the help of Office Server Extension, SQL Server and IIS on the NT server, users can manipulate documents via the Web such as Open/Save files directly from/to the Web, Web ...
by Noel Laam
A computer, a popular and indispensable tool today, may still have not found its place in our students’ homes before. To enable our students to take home a brand new computer for studies or leisure, the Computing Services Centre organised a “Computer Ownership Programme for Students” in October 1999 ...
September 1999
by Joe Lee
To meet the increasing demand of PC laboratories for conducting computer classes and hands-on tutorials, we have swapped Rooms J and K and equipped Room J with more PCs. After this swap, Room K is housed with 30 SUN UltraSparc 5 workstations while Room J has 50 PCs with large 17" XGA monitors. In ...
by Raymond Poon
If you are considering to purchase a new computer or to replace your existing one, now it is the time to act quickly. The CSC has arranged with Compaq, Dell, IBM, and Sun to provide CityU students with special offers which are guaranteed to be lowest in town. Some even allow payment by installments ...