Despite what the Microsoft web site says, TechNet packs has Office 2010 and then some. TechNet is a great program for IT Professionals that provides a wide range of Microsoft products for evaluation purposes, but if you check their web site it seems that Office 2010 isn’t included! A few readers have asked after checking […]
There’s hints of a Military Appreciation Edition for Canada – where is it? Ever since we first saw the licence agreement for Office 2010 we’ve been intrigued about this section: “CANADIAN FORCES SOFTWARE. You must be a “CANEX Authorized Patron” to license software marked as “Canadian Forces” edition.” (the full section is below) This seems […]
Microsoft asks customers for their best calendar designs. Over at Office.Microsoft.com they are running a competition for the best calendar designs for 2011. The competition is for 2011 calendars using either Word, Excel or PowerPoint (2007 or 2010 editions). The entries appear online and the ‘winners’ will be based on the user ratings and download numbers. […]
Two ‘free’ update emails are scams but not detected by Outlook. We check out the ‘red flags’ you should look for in any suspicious or unexpected email. Two similar scam messages have arrived in the last day, they might fool some people and certainly don’t get caught by Microsoft Outlook’s spam filter. In this article […]
Live Mesh goes back to being Live Mesh with 5GB online storage. The bad news came when Microsoft announced that the wonderful ‘Live Mesh’ system had been renamed ‘Live Sync’ and emasculated into a shell of the popular system they were working on. Now the good news – Microsoft has changed their minds. It was […]