Microsoft announces end of Office 2007 – ‘RTM’ is nigh. Microsoft has sent an email announcing the end of the Office 2007 beta. That means the ‘Release to Manufacturing’ (RTM) will be in the next few weeks. There won’t be a ‘Release Candidate’ put out for wider testing – the last Office 2007 beta is […]
Marking the tenth anniversary of Office Watch. We’ve passed a milestone – the tenth anniversary of Office Watch. Since 1 October 1996 we’ve been keeping a close eye on Microsoft Office – Office 97 was about to be released back then and now Office 2007 is appearing over the horizon. Over the decade we’ve kept […]
Tesco – the big UK retail chain is to release their own office suite. The big UK retail chain, Tesco’s has announced that they will start selling their own Office suite as a competition to Microsoft Office. The office suite will be part of a range of new products sold under the Tesco brand. There […]
Google has expanded their Gmail service into a new area – Google Apps for domains. This might sound very complex and for business but it is neither. Google’s service lets you manage the email accounts for an entire domain – not just a single address. This gives you many options not available for a single […]
A new security threat known as the VML vulnerability has just been patched by Microsoft. As we’ve mentioned in Office Watch, a new security threat known as the VML vulnerability has just been patched by Microsoft. This is important because there’s a possibility of email messages taking advantage of this security gap in Windows. Just […]
