If you know the magic spell the Office 2007 compatibility pack works like a charm. Microsoft promised to provide a free tool to permit earlier versions of Office to read and save the new formats. Now the compatibility pack is available, we originally found that only the Word 2007 format is fully supported with Excel […]
Office 2007 comes to MSDN subscribers earlier than expected. Office 2007 is now available to MSDN subscribers for download via their web site msdn.microsoft.com – if you can get on. Available are Office 2007 Professional, English, German and Japanese editions plus other incarnations of Office 2007 like Visio, OneNote, InfoPath, Project and Groove. If you’re […]
Office 2007 escapes onto pirate sites. Earlier this week copies of Office 2007 with a license key appeared on various Warez and peer-to-peer sharing sites. Surprisingly the license key is accepted and the software is the final version. But you can expect that Microsoft will put that license key on their ‘banned’ list quickly. At […]
Office 2007 has finished development and gone off to manufacturing After the usual long gestation period, Office 2007 has gone ‘gold’ or ‘RTM’, released to manufacturing. That means the developers have finished their work for a while and Office 2007 is off to be made into DVD’s and retail boxes. Corporate and MSDN customers are […]
Office 2007 retail boxes revealed – complete with ‘dimensional stability’. Microsoft has released images of the retail packaging for Office 2007. Clearly this plastic box is designed to look good and stand out on the retail shelf. click here to see a full size image So far it’s been described as looking like a 50’s […]