How often can you reinstall Microsoft Office? Steve P asks … “Love the articles, and I’ve learnt lots from them. I’ve purchased Office 2010 Home & Student (in the UK) for installation on WinXP SP3, and whilst I know about the time limit between installation & activation, there seems to be no info on time […]
Traps, changes and subscriptions in Office 2013 prices. Microsoft has announced the pricing for Office 2013 and, as usual, the devil is in the detail. Subscriptions For a long time, Microsoft has wanted to sell Microsoft Office as a subscription rather than a one-time payment. With Office 2013 they are pushing that option and pricing […]
A temporary copy of Office 2013 on a computer. The concept of ‘Office on Demand’ started with Office 2010 (the Starter edition and Office to Go) but is being expanded in Office 2013 for subscription customers. Office on Demand uses ‘Click to Run’ technology to install Office directly from the Internet using streaming. It’s different […]
Microsoft opens an Office store for Office 2013 For a peek into the future, check out the Office Store now in beta. Office 2013 has a new form of plug-in based on HTML5 and web technologies with the Office Store intended as a ‘one stop’ place to get these addons. As you might expect, there’s […]
To search PDF’s on a 64-bit machine you need a separate download. The Adobe PDF Reader software isn’t enough on 64-bit Windows computers. If you’re running a 64-bit version of Windows (any release) you’ll probably find that Windows Search doesn’t find text inside PDF’s. Only file names are searched but not the contents. That’s seems […]