How well are the changed terms for retail sales being disclosed? Now Office 2013 is being sold to the public we’ve been carefully looking for proper disclosure of the new stricter license rules. As regular Office Watch readers will know, Office 2013 retail bundles have very different rules to the
Get Microsoft’s Surface Pro and then pay more for Office. Microsoft has announced that their Surface Pro computer will be released on February 9th. We hope it has better luck in the market than the rightly belittled Surface machine with its low disk space, lack of compatibility and high price.
Choose your Office 2013 trial with care. If you’d like to try Office 2013, there’s more than one choice to make. You can select a traditional download and install OR use the newer ‘Click to Run‘ streaming install. Traditional download You can download Office 2013 Professional Plus trial from here.
Make the famous WW2 poster yourself, and countless variations, in Microsoft Office. Make the famous WW2 poster yourself, and countless variations, in Microsoft Office Keep Calm with Microsoft Office is the latest in our series of practical ebooks for Microsoft Office users. We don’t just tell you how
Microsoft Store presents yet another poor ‘discount’ offer. Regular readers know that if you want the highest prices, go to the Microsoft Store. Even their special offers are overpriced. Over Thanksgiving 2012, the Store has been offering US customers a discount on Office for Mac. Sounds great, a $50 discount
Redmond is still talking ‘billion’ and showing their own ‘statistics’ as false. During the launch of Windows 8 it was interesting to hear mention of ‘over a billion people using Windows‘. That’s interesting because only a few months ago Microsoft was assuring us there were a billion Microsoft Office users
Office 2013 with Windows 8 touch interface is disappointing. Last week Office-Watch.com had a chance to try out a Windows 8 tablet with Office 2013 and it was the most underwhelming Microsoft demo we’ve attended in 15 years. We were given Windows 8 tablets to try out, the Samsung Series
Hard to believe Microsoft’s statement that Office has a billion users. Microsoft has been boasting this week about the billion users of Microsoft Office. Over 15 years of listening to Microsoft statistics we’re automatically suspicious of any such number, especially when the speaker can’t give any justification for the number.
Office lets you recover documents lost but it can be hard to choose the right one. For many versions of Office you’ve been able to recover open documents that haven’t been saved before a system crash, but the details aren’t obvious. If Windows or Office unexpectedly stops, there’s a chance
How Microsoft shoots itself in the Windows Phone Office-Watch.com has a Windows Phone and we’d like to write about the Office related features for our readers. Sadly there’s a problem with the device so that will have to wait. In the meantime here are some thoughts on how Microsoft shoots
How to copy a table from Wikipedia to Word or Excel. Standard web tables can be copied from a web page to Word or Excel, but not many tables on Wikipedia pages. Office-Watch.com shows you how to do it. Even if you’re not copying from Wikipedia, we’ll show you some
A look at the Office suite numbers in the MSFT annual report. Having trouble sleeping? Head over to the US Securities and Exchange Commission web site for the latest Annual Report from Microsoft. 95 pages of tedium guaranteed to have your eyelids slamming shut. Among the dry numbers and drier
A PDF editing mode arrives in Word 2013. For a long time people have asked for a way to edit PDF files – Word 2013 has it, sort of. It’s an understandable feature request even though it’s a bit like asking to edit a paper book or a stained glass
A look into the history of Dragon Systems. Long time computer users will remember Dragon Systems and their speech recognition software. The company was taken over by Lernout & Hauspie – a company that continues to be mentioned in the ‘About’ window of Office 2010. The sad and strange story
Microsoft scoops up Yammer for inclusion in a future Office. The social networking for business site Yammer.com has been bought by Microsoft for $1.2billion dollars allowing inclusion of the product in a future release of Office and Sharepoint, Yammer was started in 2008 and is promoted as “The First and
Microsoft’s Surface offers a new way to buy and use Office. After the super-secret prelude, Microsoft announced what most commentators said they would – a tablet device made by Microsoft to rival the iPad – called Surface. Surface with Windows and Office in one bundle represents a new way to
Talk about a virtualized Office for iPad – it already exists and it’s called CloudOn. CloudOn puts Office 2007 on your Apple iPad or Android tablet. It’s not a clone or scaled down version of Microsoft Office. It’s the full Office 2007 – Word, Excel and PowerPoint plus a file
Microsoft will get the .office top level domain, among many. While the list of initial Global Top Level Domains has yet to be approved, it’s pretty clear that Microsoft will get the .office domain name. The reason? Microsoft can easily afford the fees, there should be no question of their
Microsoft might have an easy way to make Office for iPad, but it would be a trick not a solution. Over at ZDnet, there’s a good discussion about why an ‘Office for iPad’ isn’t feasible and what Microsoft may be planning instead. Despite ( or because of) Microsoft’s denials it’s
Google buys QuickOffice in an effort to keep up with Microsoft’s move into tablets with Office. Google has announced the purchase of QuickOffice for the traditional amount in these situations ie ‘undisclosed’. To understand why, you need a summary of the three main players. QuickOffice has a set of well
Reports that Office for iPad and even Android are due later this year. Boy Genius Report is reporting that Microsoft will release versions of Microsoft Office for both Apple iPad’s and Android devices. By this rumor, Redmond is aiming for a November 2012 release date. This would put it in
Which is faster to upload? Skydrive or Dropbox and why is there a difference? A few readers have independently reported that Dropbox is faster to upload files compared to Skydrive. We agree, though there’s not a lot you can do about it. For most Office documents it doesn’t make a
Camera Upload is a great new feature in Dropbox which makes it easier to put photos into emails and documents. Camera Upload is a great new feature in Dropbox which makes it easier to put photos into emails and documents. Having a camera on your smartphone is great but transferring
An Office themed bit of web humor. Here’s a bit of web humor doing the rounds. It starts with the statement … Whoever stole my copy of Microsoft Office, I will track you down Followed by replies: You Excel and re-posting 😀 What’s your Power Point? Works for me You shouldn’t
