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 easy to see why those […]
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 of a jury trial on […]
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 you have downloaded them.
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 $100 off the retail price […]
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 a USB ‘key’ drive). You […]