Price increases for most Aussies wanting Office 2010. Microsoft Australia has finally announced their prices for Microsoft Office 2010. Home and Student 2010 has a recommended retail price of $209 Home and Business 2010 at $379 Professional 2010 at $849 There are also ‘Product Key Card’ options for $169, $279 and $499 respectively however, as […]
Office 2010 will be available soon – but not now. With the news that Office 2010 has been released to manufacture, the software pirates were quickly out with downloads that you should not touch. Office-Watch.com checked a few of the ‘Office 2010 RTM’ downloads and found most of them were just renamed beta versions of […]
Now you have to pay for the ODF converter, what are the alternatives? Oracle, the new owners of Sun, are now charging for the previously free ODF plug-in for Microsoft Office. The plug-in lets MS Office read and write to the ODF file format which is a rival to Microsoft Office 2007/OpenXML document standard. It […]
An embarrassing cookbook shows how Word features can bite back. Down in Australia, copies of ‘The Pasta Bible’ might become high priced curiosities after the book has been withdrawn and destroyed. The reason is an embarrassing typo caused by trusting a spell-checker and maybe auto-correct being too helpful. We don’t know if Microsoft Word was […]
Office 2010 is out of beta and moving to the real world. Microsoft has announced that Office 2010 is out of development and is now RTM – Released to Manufacture. The beta testing has ended and the final product will be available soon. Some long suffering cynics might say that Office 2010 has merely moved […]