Beware a new spam email looks more sincere than usual and fools Outlook, thanks to some clever mail merging techniques. Occasionally a spam email arrives which shows a better than average ability by the spammer – today we got one which fooled us for a second and certainly fooled the
The .docx etc converter for Mac users is delayed yet again — doesn’t Microsoft have any shame left? It’s hard not to conclude that the managers in charge of Microsoft Office for Mac are quite shameless – at least when it comes to compatibility with Microsoft’s own document standards. While
Apple might like the sales of iPhones but the gray market makes it harder to maximise revenue on each sale. I enjoyed this from Wired magazine … iBricking n. What it’s called when Apple’s 1.1.1 system up date detects third-party software and disables an iPhone. By rendering the product useless,
The usual collection of patches and unanswered questions in this months security updates from Microsoft. Another month and there’s more security updates for Office users. In addition there are updates for Vista that are pre-requisites before Service Pack 1 arrives next month. The Office related updates are: Vulnerability in Microsoft
A UK company is offering Office 2007 for 5 quid a month Fasthosts, a UK web hosting firm is offering Office 2007 on a subscription basis from £5 (US$1.96) a month , but is it allowed by Microsoft? Under the deal you can subscribe to various types of Office 2007
Is the Macbook Air really as great as Apple and its devotees tell us? It is amazing how Apple can convince people their stuff is so wonderful, to the extent that reviewers are prepared to brush aside some obvious shortcomings and tactics in their products. And so it is with
Office users should not worry about changes to the Office 2007 formats, but developers need to watch out. If you’ve read some comments about the OOXML (aka Office 2007 document formats) then you might be worried about saving files as docx xlsx etc – while the concerns are justified there’s
An annoying bug in Outlook 2007 has been fixed with Service Pack 1 Office 2007 Service Pack one has certainly fixed one problem that’s been bugging our readers for the last year – the proper printing of multi-week events in monthly calendar printouts. In the original Outlook 2007, a multi-week
When things go wrong with Office, do you blame it or Windows? Bill G writes: ” I read an article which quoted a Microsoft executive saying that they didn’t know if problems with Office where the fault of Office or Windows. Are they kidding – if Microsoft doesn’t know where
The first service pack for Office 2007 has been released and, as usual, you’re better off waiting a while. The first service pack for Office 2007 has been released and, as usual, you’re better off waiting a while. The documentation on the changes in Service Pack 1 (SP1) is still
Following the story of the ‘trillion dollar bank letter’ comes the question – how do you avoid making the similar mistakes with Microsoft Word. Following the story of the trillion dollar bank letter comes the question – how do you avoid such mistakes in your own business? However it happens,
While installing Vista SP1 isn’t always easy, the final result is worth the trouble. In our test Vista SP1 is noticeably more stable than the version previously foisted on the public. Unlike Office 2007 Service Pack 1, the Windows Vista service pack is undergoing much wider testing before public release.
Since Vista Service Pack won’t have a ‘kill switch’ what does that mean for Office? Microsoft has announced that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will not have the despised ‘kill switch’ – the ability for Microsoft to disable Vista remotely if they beleive the software is stolen, even after the activation
Telling someone they owe trillions of dollars is blamed on a word-processor WSB-TV in Atlanta has the story of a bank letter that would worry anyone – it said the customer owed over $211 Trillion US dollars. That’s more than the cost of the Iraq War (in fact 70 times
Microsoft updates their PDA range to support Office 2007 documents – and not before time. At long last, Microsoft has made some of their Windows Mobile (aka Pocket PC) devices compatible with Office 2007 documents (.docx xlsx pptx etc.) – Windows Mobile 6.1 is now available. It’s been a year
A guy bought a drive from Best Buy in NY – it has tiles instead of 1TB of storage – but no refund or replacement from Best Buy. The Consumerist is reporting the amazing story of Sam – who bought a 1TB hard drive only to find a set of
There’s a big question mark over the third service pack for Office 2003 – should you install it or not? Microsoft has chosen to make that decision a difficult one for all Office 2003 users. There’s a big question mark over the third service pack for Office 2003 – should
Microsoft has released a 37MB ‘hotfix’ for the Excel 2007 calculation bug Excel 2007 calc bug fix Microsoft has released a ‘hotfix’ for the Excel 2007 calculation bug and it’s worth getting despite the large size. The hotfix here . Just install the patch – there is no restart or
In the name of ‘security’ some features of Office 2003 are disabled upon installing Service Pack 3 – a cheap shortcut by Microsoft to save themselves the bother of making a real fix. Some of them might not trouble you but others could be an unexpected ‘surprise’. Microsoft has released
Google Docs now has Powerpoint like features – or at least the beginnings of it … Earlier this year, Google purchased a small company that developed presentation software – in other words ‘Powerpoint on the Web’ – we’ll now it’s here. Google Docs has been extended from documents and spreadsheets
Some new and obviously bogus ‘security bulletins’ arrive via email – but why doesn’t Outlook detect them? There’s another round of bogus Microsoft security bulletins appearing in Inboxes again – these ones are notable only because the Outlook junk email filter and phishing protection do NOT detect them despite some
Microsoft is offering Office 2007 for a ‘steal’ (their word) to college students in various countries. Microsoft is offering Office 2007 Ultimate edition for a fraction of the regular price to college students from now until April 2008. In the US, Office 2007 Ultimate edition is officially $679 but college
Do you have trouble with Outlook 2007 and other programs running slowly under Windows Vista? We have some theories about the problem and some possible workarounds that might help you. Do you have trouble with Outlook 2007 and other programs running slowly under Windows Vista? Opening Explorer windows, saving documents
The August 2007 spam update for Outlook doesn’t keep pace with fast moving spammers and phishers. In the August bundle of updates for Windows and Office is an update to the Junk Email Definitions for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. This particular update barely keeps up with the latest developments
