A sharp indictment of Microsoft’s spotty support for changing time zones. The Commonwealth Games are coming to Melbourne in March this year http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/ and normally that would not matter to us except that it’s going to cause a major upheaval for users of Microsoft Office, Exchange and Windows. It’ll mostly affect our Aussie friends but […]
Until 30 April 2006 you can buy Microsoft Small Business Accounting for $100 off the retail price Microsoft is making another effort to get people away from paper based accounting or, more importantly for Microsoft, competitors like Quicken. Until 30 April 2006 you can buy Microsoft Small Business Accounting for $100 off the retail price […]
Microsoft has made a commmitment to Office for Mac for the next 5 years. As part of the annual Apple hoopla at Macworld, Microsoft made a commitment to produce versions of Office for Macintosh for the next five years. A good move, but not really a surprise. Microsoft would hardly want to relinquish ground to […]
You can take OpenOffice (an MS Office rival) on the road with a USB key. The open source Office suite OpenOffice now has a portable version, something that MS Office does NOT have. Portable, in this context, means having the programs and data stored on a portable drive (most likely a USB ‘key’ drive). You […]
Microsoft has a New Years gift to their customers, otherwise known as the Windows / WMF exploit. A few days ago in this newsletter we said that 2006 would be an interesting year – perhaps in the manner of the Chinese curse. Who knew Microsoft would make the curse come true in the first week […]
