A look into the dilemma that faces developers in the Microsoft Office team. For many years we’ve heard from Office Watch readers who want both a simpler Microsoft Office without ‘unnecessary’ extras and, often in the same breath, demanding some specific additional features. This dilemma is at the core of Microsoft’s decision to introduce the […]
Does one of the May 2007 security updates slow down Outlook? Office Watchers have been complaining about Outlook grinding to a halt and thinking that it’s caused by the latest round of security patches from Microsoft. We hear comments like this very often and usually it’s just a co-incidence – the patch isn’t the real […]
For the sake of superstition the next version of Office won’t be called ’13’ Office 2007 is known inside Microsoft as ‘Office 12’ and that naming is seen in some of the folders and version numbering in the release product. The next version of Office for Windows will be known as ‘Office 14’. Office 13 […]
An interactive version of the famous album cover lets you discover more about the famous faces. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has a nifty feature on the famous Beatles album cover for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart’s Club Band. Go here and move your mouse over the cover. A tooltip will appear with the name and […]
The new security features, announced by Microsoft might work OK — but who can tell? Microsoft has announced two ‘new’ security features for Office 2007 and Office 2003 users. They are claimed to help protect against ‘zero-day’ exploits in Office documents – in other words new security holes that Microsoft has not had a chance […]