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 of the take over is […]
How to change the font and font size of Comment balloons in Word Recently we wrote about the Word Comments feature and how it can be used even for a solo author. The standard comments font is Calibri 10pt but that can be changed by changing the style linked to the comments text – the […]
The Office 2010 Starter edition won’t continue for Office 2013 but not for the reason Microsoft says. The Office 2010 Starter Edition, included with some new computers, won’t be returning for Office 2013. According to Microsoft the Starter Edition isn’t compatible with Windows 8 so they can’t have an Office 2013 Starter Edition. That might […]
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 Most Powerful Enterprise Social Network”. […]
Screen sharing is still free with Skype, but you’d not know it from Microsoft’s weasel words. One of the best features in Skype is screen sharing – the ability to send some or your entire computer screen to your caller, instead of video from a webcam. This feature is still free in the latest version […]
