Microsoft entry in the desktop search arena reached v3 – which is important for anyone using Outlook 2007 Windows Desktop Search v3 is out now and can be downloaded from here. This is Microsoft’s rival to things like Google Desktop Search. WDS v3 is a virtually essential part of Outlook
Microsoft Office templates and Office Update will now require your software licence to be confirmed From tomorrow (Friday) Microsoft is making some Office related downloads from their site conditional on confirming you have a valid licence for Office. This is an extension of the Windows Genuine Advantage program where many
We’ve started a ‘Microsoft Office’ search engine to make it easier to find tips, help and info about Office. Google has launched a new search engine – the ‘Custom Search Engine’ feature where people can create their own specialized Search Engines. We’ve started a ‘Microsoft Office’ search engine to make
The ‘Technology Guarantee’ for Office 2007 and Vista have some traps for the unwary. Microsoft has announced their ‘Technology Guarantee’ program for both Windows Vista and Office 2007. This is the offer to let people who buy software in a certain date range to upgrade to the newly released version
A quick reader poll – “to Office 2007 or not Office 2007” With Office 2007 about to be released the time has come to decide whether to switch to the new version of Office. Some ‘early adopters’ are probably already using the beta and will switch over as soon as
How to add Quick Launch icons for specific folders in Outlook. Getting quickly to the Outlook folder you want can be a little easier if you use the Windows XP Quick Launch toolbar. Any Outlook folder can be dragged onto the Quick Launch toolbar for fast access. If you don’t
Reference Application Pack of an Office Business Application for Supply Chain Management Sorry about the headline, but we could not resist after wading though the latest promotional release from Microsoft. In translation that means: Reference Application Pack of an Office Business Application for Supply Chain Management Still lost? – we
How to make free overseas phone calls from the USA Update: Futurephone’s service is offline at present. It seems other phone companies have blocked access to FuturePhone’s access number. You can check out their web site to see when/if the service resumes. Futurephone has been getting a bit of publicity,
Office 2007 has many subtle updates in the dictionary. There’s many subtle updates in the dictionary for Office 2007. The team is boasting that they’ve added some 58,000 words to the default dictionary. More names They’ve taken the US census data and added the more popular first names to the
Google goes public with an online word-processor and spreadsheet. Google has bundled their acquisition of Writely and their own Google Spreadsheets into a single package known as Google Docs and Spreadsheets. If you were trying out Writely or Google Spreadsheet go to http://docs.google.com/ and you’ll go through a few simple
The next Office for Mac is due in late 2007. Yes, there will be another version of Office for Mac – not that there was any real doubt about that. It’s currently due later in 2007 and will be called ‘Office 2007 for Macintosh’. The Mac version will have a
Here’s a list of the October 2006 security updates for Microsoft Office for Windows. There are five security updates for Microsoft Office this month, all of which are rated ‘Critical’ by Microsoft. Powerpoint for Windows and Mac See https://office-watch.com/kb?924163 PowerPoint 2000, PowerPoint 2002, PowerPoint 2003, Excel 2004 for Mac, Excel
Cumulative updates of Office for Mac There are also some updates for Office for Mac: Microsoft Office v. X for Mac 10.1.8 Update This 40MB download has new security and stability updates as well as including all past updates. Office 2004 for Mac This 59MB download also has new updates
Businesses can try Microsoft Customer Relationship Manager software free for 3 months. Microsoft CRM 3.0 is their back office Customer Relationship Management software. Previous releases were uninspiring but v3.0 is much better. It has a mostly web based interface but links with Outlook and other Office apps nicely. There is
Microsoft announces end of Office 2007 – ‘RTM’ is nigh. Microsoft has sent an email announcing the end of the Office 2007 beta. That means the ‘Release to Manufacturing’ (RTM) will be in the next few weeks. There won’t be a ‘Release Candidate’ put out for wider testing – the
Tesco – the big UK retail chain is to release their own office suite. The big UK retail chain, Tesco’s has announced that they will start selling their own Office suite as a competition to Microsoft Office. The office suite will be part of a range of new products sold
There’s a nice new time zone feature in Outlook 2007 – but it doesn’t go far enough. One feature we like in Outlook 2007 is the, long overdue, support for appointments from different time zones but, as usual, when you dig deeper the improvement doesn’t go far enough. In the
Windows Vista will ship on a single DVD regardless of which variant of the operating system you buy. Microsoft still has some more tricks up their sleeve for selling more software and keeping more of the money for themselves. Windows Vista will ship on a single DVD regardless of which
Reports are coming out about a possible security problem with the beta releases of Office 2007 – which makes for a good headline but really is NOT true. Reports are coming out about a possible security problem with the beta releases of Office 2007 – which makes for a good
The Office 2007 ‘Technical Refresh’ is out as a free update for anyone who has the Beta 2 version. The Office 2007 ‘Technical Refresh’ is out as a free update for anyone who has the Beta 2 version. Microsoft calls it ‘Beta 2 Technical Refresh’ or B2TR for short. We
Office 2003 Student and Teacher edition seems better value than the Office 2007 equivalent. There’s an interesting case for buying the Office 2003 Student and Teacher edition now, instead of waiting for the equivalent version for Office 2007 (due out in retail boxes early 2007). You would think that waiting
There’s only one Microsoft Office related security update this month. There’s only one Microsoft Office related security update this month. It applies to users of Publisher only – the 2000, 2002 (XP) and 2003 versions. Publisher 2000 Update needs Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 – download here Publisher 2002
Yet another vulnerability in Office was revealed this week, this time it effects Word 2000 even with all the latest patches installed. Yet another vulnerability in Office was revealed this week, this time it effects Word 2000 even with all the latest patches installed. A malicious document could, via Word
You can try Office Accounting 2007 for free. If you haven’t got enough test versions of Microsoft products (Vista, Office 2007 etc) then you can try out Office Accounting 2007 beta – now available here a Windows Live ID is required (the latest name for Microsoft Passport). Among the new
