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This might rate as the most nerdy Microsoft Office news item of the year … Microsoft is changing the build number format for Office from four significant digits to five. Please try to contain your excitement … The current MS Office for Windows public release has a version/build like this: Version 1804 Build 9226.2156 – […]
One of the recent security patches from Microsoft is being actively exploited by hackers hoping to trap people who don’t update their computer quickly. The security bug can use an Office document to infect your computer. The security hole is in the Internet Explorer browser and the VBscript engine. It affects Windows 7 onwards plus […]
Another month, another set of security bugs in Microsoft Office. It’s Microsoft’s version of Groundhog Day. The May 2018 dump of patches involves 102 updates covering: Office versions from Office 2010 to the latest Office 2016 Core Office features Word Excel Sharepoint and Project server. Most people don’t need to do anything. Windows and Office […]
The Microsoft Build conference has many promises and announcements of future technologies. They aren’t things you can use right now and some of them are familiar from Microsoft conferences in years and decades past. The demos are very impressive and looks really easy. The reality of development and use is often a lot harder and […]
Microsoft is now previewing the next version of Office for perpetual licence/one-time payment customers. The changes in how Office is sold and updated mean this isn’t the big news it once was. We have info on what’s in Office 2019, release date and reduced support. Most people now buy Office as a ‘subscription’ or annual […]
