How well are the changed terms for retail sales being disclosed? Now Office 2013 is being sold to the public we’ve been carefully looking for proper disclosure of the new stricter license rules. As regular Office Watch readers will know, Office 2013 retail bundles have very different rules to the
Get Microsoft’s Surface Pro and then pay more for Office. Microsoft has announced that their Surface Pro computer will be released on February 9th. We hope it has better luck in the market than the rightly belittled Surface machine with its low disk space, lack of compatibility and high price.
Choose your Office 2013 trial with care. If you’d like to try Office 2013, there’s more than one choice to make. You can select a traditional download and install OR use the newer ‘Click to Run‘ streaming install. Traditional download You can download Office 2013 Professional Plus trial from here.
Make the famous WW2 poster yourself, and countless variations, in Microsoft Office. Make the famous WW2 poster yourself, and countless variations, in Microsoft Office Keep Calm with Microsoft Office is the latest in our series of practical ebooks for Microsoft Office users. We don’t just tell you how
A simple way to backup your SQL databases and move them offsite. SQL Server from Microsoft has a built-in backup utility however it doesn’t compress the backup nor let you move it to another machine. That’s where SQL Backup and FTP comes in, a nifty add-on for a reasonable price.
Add better multi-monitor support for Windows As you put your Office applications across more than one monitor, you’ll find the need for better controls than the ones in Windows. That’s where UltraMon comes in. These days it’s common to see two monitors with Office programs and browser windows open across
What to look for in emails that might be up to no good. Ernst and Young in conjunction with the FBI has developed a tool to check for fraud via email conversations. The software looks for key phrases that are often used when people are discussing something they should not
Microsoft security patch causes new bugs. It has to happen some times a new Microsoft security patch has caused a new bug to arise in PowerPoint among other software. In the last set of security patches there was MS12-078 but the patch itself is faulty and will have to be
How we can change as ‘paperwork’ has changed. A new book has an interesting take on how culture and business has changed as paperwork and filing has changed. The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork by Ben Kafka is about bureaucracy and paperwork, something rarely considered by historians.
Apple and Microsoft arguing about Skydrive and Office for iPad and iPhone TheNextWeb is reporting that Apple has rejected Microsoft’s update to the Skydrive app for iOS devices (iPhone and iPad). Skydrive is Microsoft and Office’s preferred way to share documents between devices. The current Skydrive app hasn’t been updated
Personal Internet radio isn’t just for the young folk. Personal Internet radio services seem great for young people with their rock and roll music so it’s been a pleasant surprise to discover it works for all generations. The idea is simple, you choose an artist or genre and the service
Can you find text only within email attachments? A standard Outlook search will include text in attachments automatically, just type in the word or phrase and Outlook will go hunting for you. A reader asks if you can limit the search to just the attachments and not the message text?
How to keep getting your Gmail even when it’s not working Gmail had another outage which continues as we type this, at least that’s how it was reported. In fact the core Gmail system was still working, only the web interface was broken. This has happened before and Office-Watch.com has
Delving more into the problem of Worldmate and Microsoft Outlook with time zones. As we noted in our brief look at Worldmate, the calendar import into Outlook isn’t as good as it could be, in fact it could be downright dangerous! The Worldmate calendar data can be off by an
The Intel based Microsoft Surface will cost more than you think or Microsoft pretends. The upcoming Surface with Windows 8 Pro costs even more than it first appears because Office is missing and so is the keyboard. Surface with Windows RT is the ARM chip based version of Microsoft’s tablet
Worldmate is a clever travel organizer which talks to Outlook. One of the tedious parts of travelling is entering all the details into Outlook calendar. Typing in flights, hotels etc is a pain but necessary because once in Outlook the details will appear anywhere you have the calendar synced like
Microsoft’s sleight of hand more than doubles the price of Microsoft Office. Update: we updated this article on 6 March 2013 to reflect the change of heart by Microsoft to allow transfer of Office 2013 retail licenses. The calculations and conclusions remain unchanged. You have to hand it to Microsoft marketing
A full copy of the Office 2013 Software License Agreement UPDATE: On 6 March 2013, Microsoft announced a change to the Software License Agreement to permit transfer of retail purchase Office 2013 licenses. The exact wording of the change is: Updated transferability provision to the Retail License Terms of the
Microsoft Store presents yet another poor ‘discount’ offer. Regular readers know that if you want the highest prices, go to the Microsoft Store. Even their special offers are overpriced. Over Thanksgiving 2012, the Store has been offering US customers a discount on Office for Mac. Sounds great, a $50 discount
Some photos from the 2012 Total Eclipse as seen from the ship Paul Gauguin Eclipse Circumstances on the Paul Gauguin 14 Nov 2012. Times are ‘ship time’ on the day – ie UTC +10. Details from ships daily info sheet on 19 Nov. Lat: 26° 40′ South Long: 166°
The Taliban sends CC’s instead of BCC’s and reveals their contact list. It’s somehow comforting to know that even the worlds most feared terrorist group can make email mistakes just like anyone else. ABC News in the USA reports that Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, a Taliban spokesman, sent out a press
Office-Watch.com has a hands-on look at Microsoft Surface We’ve been using the Microsoft Surface since its release a few weeks ago and while our focus on Office RT will come later, here’s a quick look at the new Microsoft device. The device Microsoft Surface is a tablet with optional keyboard
The latest rumor is more like a logical extension of current policy. The latest rumor about Microsoft Office for iPhone/iPad (number 263 in the series) says that if such a program is released it will be as part of an Office 365 subscription. That’s hardly a surprise for several reasons.
There’s many ways you can arrange your Inbox in Outlook. Whenever we look at the Outlook setup used by other people, two things are striking. One is that few people change the default layout provided by Microsoft to something that suits them. We’ll look at that another time. The other
