Office 2010 is out of beta and moving to the real world. Microsoft has announced that Office 2010 is out of development and is now RTM – Released to Manufacture. The beta testing has ended and the final product will be available soon. Some long suffering cynics might say that
Webmail dangers and what you can do about it. A recent article in the New York Times ‘I was hacked in Beijing‘ highlights some of the problems with storing your email or documents in the much-promoted cloud. In this case it seems the journalist was using a Yahoo online
Fixes for security bugs in Publisher and Visio. In a long list of security bugs, the April list only has a few related to MS Office. Publisher Yet more ways to run a program via a hacked Office document, this time with Publisher Publisher 2007 with SP1 or SP2 –
So much for the difficulties of 64-bit Office 2010 – is it worth it? Last week we had a lot of coverage on Office 2010 64-bit edition, the compatibility issues and special installation requirements. If you don’t think you’ll have any compatibility problems, is it worth the trouble? That’s the big
Security patches for Publisher and Visio. This month’s security updates from Microsoft are ‘only’ for Publisher (2002/XP, 2003 2007) and Visio (2002/XP, 2003, 2007) Publisher Yet another method of making a file which, when opened, allows other programs to be run. There’s been many, many of these problems found. This
How can you tell if 32-bit or 64-bit Office 2010 is installed? If you start Office 2010 there’s no immediately obvious difference between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the software. 64-bit is visually indistinguishable from the 32-bit cousin and for most people the technically differences don’t matter – Office 2010
Installing 64-bit Office 2010 is all in the preparation … If you have a 64-bit edition of Windows and want to use Office 2010 64-bit then before installing you need to make some decisions and do some preparation. 64-bit Office software is definitely faster than the default 32-bit software but
How can you run Office 2010 32-bit and 64-bit on the one machine? The two versions of Office 2010 cannot be installed on the one computer but you might want to run 32-bit Office for some compatibility purpose while running 64-bit Office most of the time. Enter the virtual machine
Another little change in Outlook 2010 is the way an incoming appointment request is displayed. Outlook has a great feature where people can email an appointment to you and you can respond with the details automatically added to your calendar. In Outlook 2007 you see the details of the appointment
Office 2010 will have a 64-bit version but don’t get too excited. Office 2010 comes with 64-bit software as well as the usual 32-bit software. First a little background for those of us who think that 64-bit is a new type of chocolate cookie “64 bits in every bite!” Microsoft
How to install the 64-bit version of Office 2010. How to install the 64-bit version of Office 2010. Office 2010 on a DVD disk will install the 32-bit software by default. If you choose to install the 64-bit software requires some special steps. A downloaded Office 2010 should be offered
How to ‘print’ to OneNote on a 64-bit computer. Onenote has a nifty ‘Send to OneNote’ option that is added to the printer list but it doesn’t work on a 64-bit version of Windows. There are plenty of missing add-ins and features with 64-bit computing – this is just one
Producer for Powerpoint 2003 shows that Microsoft will patch security bugs, but not if they can find an excuse, however feeble. In the March 2010 list of security patches from Microsoft was one labeled “Vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker Could Allow Remote Code Execution” but it also affects a Microsoft
Save paper by using OneNote, Word or other methods or saving pages for later reading. “I know it’s old fashioned but I like to print out web pages that interest me and refer to later. But now my printer is broken and while I wait for repairs I have a
A long desired feature finally appears in Outlook 2010. Sometimes it’s not the ‘headline’ features in new software that really appeal – it’s the small changes that make a big difference. The downside of these innovations is that you wonder why Microsoft took so long to make a simple change.
Microsoft UK isn’t gouging Office users as much as in the past. The Office 2010 prices in the UK are much more reasonable than for Office 2007. For many years, price comparisons between Microsoft Office prices in the US and other countries hasn’t looked good for customers. For Office 2007,
“I’ve seen an offer of Office 2007 for just $1 – would this qualify for a free Office 2010? “ “I’ve seen an offer of Office 2007 for just $1 – would this qualify for a free Office 2010? “ This Office 2007 offer comes from Harvey Norman, a large
What’s the difference between Microsoft’s Live Sync, Live Mesh and Skydrive? Microsoft has two consumer level synchronization services, both use the Windows Live login and have ‘Live’ names. What’s the difference between them? How do those sync services fit with Microsoft Skydrive and Office Web Applications. Live Sync Live Sync
There’s a gap between what Microsoft says and their written policy. We’ve had a few messages from readers querying our articles about buying Office 2010 cheaply by buying Office 2007 now and getting the ‘Technology Guarantee’ later. Apparently some retailers and Microsoft staff are saying that Office Watch is wrong
March update to your Outlook junk email filter. Just a reminder that Microsoft now updates the spam filter in Outlook 2007 more often, with the latest released on 9 March 2010. You can download it from Microsoft or it may arrive via Windows/Microsoft Update. The update should help Outlook better
Use the Technology Guarantee to buy Office 2010 cheaper than retail. A one-off combination of decisions means there’s an opportunity for saving on buying Office 2010, by buying Office 2007 now. The Office 2010 Technology Guarantee means new purchases of Office 2007 now qualifies you for a free copy of
March 2010 is the month for many Excel security patches This month Microsoft has released patches for many security breaches in Excel – from Excel 2002 onwards plus Office for Mac. More embarrassing, but probably inevitable, the ‘new’ OpenXML document formats have been breached for the first time. A hacked
Google increases the pressure on the Microsoft Office online service. Google has purchased a little online service called DocVerse shooting another ‘shot across the bow’ at Microsoft’s rival online service. Docverse lets you collaborate, editing and viewing documents using Microsoft Office with the Docverse add-in and shared ‘cloud’ storage provided
At last, after various strategic leaks, the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee is fully unveiled. Microsoft has announced the details of the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee after leaking parts of it over the last month or so. The Technology Guarantee has been around for a long time – it means that
