Microsoft has announced not only the various bundles of Office 2007 but also the basic pricing. OFFICE 2007 BUNDLES Microsoft has announced not only the various bundles of Office 2007 but also the basic pricing. There’s a lot of changes and we’ll cover them all in the weeks to come
There won’t be a ‘Frontpage 2007’. Instead Microsoft is splitting it into two separate products. WHAT ABOUT FRONTPAGE 2007? There won’t be a ‘Frontpage 2007’. Instead Microsoft is splitting it into two separate products. Sharepoint Designer 2007, as foreshadowed months ago here in Office Watch, is really ‘FrontPage 2007’ with a
Google recently released the first version 3 public beta of its extremely popular desktop search program “Google Desktop Search” to a curious mixture of praise and legitimate privacy concerns. Google recently released the first version 3 public beta of its extremely popular desktop search program “Google Desktop Search” to a
Microsoft has released more updates for Office The monthly security updates are out for February but finding out their details ain’t easy. Microsoft’s web site points you to a page labeled ‘Security updates summary for February 2006‘ but this page only has generic information about updating your system. There’s no
Details of Microsoft’s online service Office Live is now live – at least as a beta. You can go to officelive.com and to get started you have to enter a proposed domain name and click on ‘Go’ – however you won’t get very far unless you have a ‘Product Key’
More information on Microsoft’s ‘request’ to update Office Many questions have recently from our readers about Microsoft’s demand for all new installations of Office 2003 and Office XP to use the latest releases. In short, Microsoft lost a patent case and has to remove a feature from Office XP and
We reprint information that Microsoft was releasing to some but not all customers. Here’s a copy of the ‘FAQ’ that Microsoft or their representatives is sending to some Office users. Since it is not widely available to affected Office users we’re publishing it here. While it is headed ‘Office 2003
Microsoft continues to bury their head about the forced upgrades of Office being mandated after Redmond lost part of a patent trial. MORE PATENT PROBLEMS Microsoft continues to bury their head about the forced upgrades of Office being mandated after Redmond lost part of a patent trial. Details in last
Google’s Gmail service has been integrated with Google Talk, their instant messaging and voice service. GMAIL SPEAKS It had to come and so it has. Google’s Gmail service has been integrated with Google Talk, their instant messaging and voice service. Since Google Talk clients have links to Gmail this is
Who said superstition is dead – Corel hasn’t released version ’13’ of Corel WordPerfect Office, instead it’s called ‘X3’. WORDPERFECT 13 – SORRY X3 Who said superstition is dead – Corel hasn’t released version ’13’ of Corel WordPerfect Office, instead it’s called ‘X3’. ‘X3’ most interesting new feature is the
There’s a virus out there that will rear its ugly head on Friday. It’s known by various names including ‘Nyxem’ and ‘Blackmal’ and could delete Office and Acrobat documents from your computer. There’s a virus out there that will rear its ugly head on Friday. It’s known by various names
News on Office for Mac and the effect of the move to Intel-based Macintosh. With Macintosh computers moving to use Intel chips the whole question of software compatibility arises. As usual, we received some questions from concerned Office users and looking at the public statements from Microsoft we find it
More details on the ‘request’ to update Excel after Microsoft lost a patent suit. (You’ll find lots of missing information in this article – we have asked many questions of Microsoft on this matter and received only short, ambiguous and incomplete responses.) Back in June 2005 Microsoft lost one part
Some 2006 calendars from the Microsoft web site. Microsoft has released some 2006 calendar templates for Word. Check out this site. There’s a one month per page version plus some ‘Birthday and special occasion’ versions. Since they are normal Word documents, you can amend the wording or color schemes once
A free document retention add-in for Sharepoint users. Document retention is important for companies – though the name is a bit misleading since the process involves not only keeping business records but also getting rid of them when the time comes. 80-20 software has released a free add-on for Sharepoint
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
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
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
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
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
“Categories” is one part of Outlook that you’ve probably seen, but never used. AN OUTLOOK ON CATEGORIES “Categories” is one part of Outlook that you’ve probably seen, but never used. That’s no surprise, since it is an imposing and poorly executed part of Outlook. But despite the difficulties of use
A minor media flap began last week when someone tried to sell an Excel flaw on eBay. Fortunately the ‘product’ has since been withdrawn. WHAT EXCEL FLAW? A minor media flap began last week when someone tried to sell an Excel flaw on eBay. Fortunately the ‘product’ has since been
Whilst the next version of Outlook won’t be out until the second half of 2006 – we’re having ‘fun’ trying out the latest version in its beta format. That’s if you include software crashes, lost documents and hunting for features in your definition of ‘fun’. One thing we did like
The interesting results of our reader survey into which version of Office you’re using at home and work. Thanks to the thousands of Office Watch readers who took a few moments to participate in our survey. The results were not what we expected in some respects. No surprise that Office