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Microsoft makes it hard to like the Windows Phone
How Microsoft shoots itself in the Windows PhoneOffice-Watch.com has a Windows Phone and we’d like to write about the Office related features for our readers. Sadly there’s a problem with the device so that will have to wait. In the meantime here are some thoughts on how Microsoft shoots itself in the Windows Phone. Consistent […]
Copying tables from Wikipedia to Word
How to copy a table from Wikipedia to Word or Excel. Standard web tables can be copied from a web page to Word or Excel, but not many tables on Wikipedia pages. Office-Watch.com shows you how to do it. Even if you’re not copying from Wikipedia, we’ll show you some useful Word skills. Tables on […]
Musings on Microsoft’s financials
A look at the Office suite numbers in the MSFT annual report. Having trouble sleeping? Head over to the US Securities and Exchange Commission web site for the latest Annual Report from Microsoft. 95 pages of tedium guaranteed to have your eyelids slamming shut. Among the dry numbers and drier prose there are some points […]
PDF editing in Word 2013
A PDF editing mode arrives in Word 2013. For a long time people have asked for a way to edit PDF files – Word 2013 has it, sort of. It’s an understandable feature request even though it’s a bit like asking to edit a paper book or a stained glass window – neither format is […]
Whatever happened to Dragon Systems?
A look into the history of Dragon Systems. Long time computer users will remember Dragon Systems and their speech recognition software. The company was taken over by Lernout & Hauspie – a company that continues to be mentioned in the ‘About’ window of Office 2010. The sad and strange story of the take over is […]
Microsoft buys Yammer for Office
Microsoft scoops up Yammer for inclusion in a future Office. The social networking for business site Yammer.com has been bought by Microsoft for $1.2billion dollars allowing inclusion of the product in a future release of Office and Sharepoint, Yammer was started in 2008 and is promoted as “The First and Most Powerful Enterprise Social Network”. […]
A new way to work with Microsoft Office
Microsoft’s Surface offers a new way to buy and use Office. After the super-secret prelude, Microsoft announced what most commentators said they would – a tablet device made by Microsoft to rival the iPad – called Surface. Surface with Windows and Office in one bundle represents a new way to buy Office and a new […]
CloudOn – office documents on your iPad
Talk about a virtualized Office for iPad – it already exists and it’s called CloudOn. CloudOn puts Office 2007 on your Apple iPad or Android tablet. It’s not a clone or scaled down version of Microsoft Office. It’s the full Office 2007 – Word, Excel and PowerPoint plus a file viewer for PDF other file […]
Microsoft gets .Office TLD
Microsoft will get the .office top level domain, among many. While the list of initial Global Top Level Domains has yet to be approved, it’s pretty clear that Microsoft will get the .office domain name. The reason? Microsoft can easily afford the fees, there should be no question of their ability to support a gTLD […]
Office for iPad – has to work offline as well
Microsoft might have an easy way to make Office for iPad, but it would be a trick not a solution. Over at ZDnet, there’s a good discussion about why an ‘Office for iPad’ isn’t feasible and what Microsoft may be planning instead. Despite ( or because of) Microsoft’s denials it’s clear that the company is […]
Google gets QuickOffice – keeps the Office game alive
Google buys QuickOffice in an effort to keep up with Microsoft’s move into tablets with Office. Google has announced the purchase of QuickOffice for the traditional amount in these situations ie ‘undisclosed’. To understand why, you need a summary of the three main players. QuickOffice has a set of well regarded apps that let you […]
Office for iPad and Android – latest news
Reports that Office for iPad and even Android are due later this year. Boy Genius Report is reporting that Microsoft will release versions of Microsoft Office for both Apple iPad’s and Android devices. By this rumor, Redmond is aiming for a November 2012 release date. This would put it in line with the release of […]
Skydrive vs Dropbox – which is faster
Which is faster to upload? Skydrive or Dropbox and why is there a difference? A few readers have independently reported that Dropbox is faster to upload files compared to Skydrive. We agree, though there’s not a lot you can do about it. For most Office documents it doesn’t make a lot of difference but for […]
Camera upload – a really useful part of Dropbox
Camera Upload is a great new feature in Dropbox which makes it easier to put photos into emails and documents. Camera Upload is a great new feature in Dropbox which makes it easier to put photos into emails and documents. Having a camera on your smartphone is great but transferring the picture to your computer […]
Whoever stole my copy of Microsoft Office, I will track you down
An Office themed bit of web humor. Here’s a bit of web humor doing the rounds. It starts with the statement … Whoever stole my copy of Microsoft Office, I will track you down Followed by replies: You Excel and re-posting 😀 What’s your Power Point? Works for me You shouldn’t have given them Access to […]
Live Mesh Skydrive vs real Skydrive
Microsoft blurs the line between Skydrive and Live Mesh. As Office-Watch.com reader Bernard L. notes “My Live Mesh was automatically converted to a synced Skydrive folder weeks ago! “ Bernard is right, the 5GB cloud storage element of Live Mesh was recently renamed to ‘Skydrive Synced Storage’ but it’s separate from usual Skydrive storage even […]
