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Microsoft Updates Office for Mac 2008, 2004 Editions

Microsoft has released updates to the Mac versions of its popular suite of office apps, Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 editions. Available as free downloads right here, on Softpedia, the updates deliver improvements to enhance the stability, compatibility, and performance of the software for the 2008 edition, and sec...

11 November 2009
09:35 GMT

Microsoft to Open up Office Outlook Data Format

Microsoft has debuted plans to open up the proprietary format used by office Outlook in order to store data. Paul Lorimer, group manager, Microsoft Office Interoperability, explained that the Redmond company was doing nothing more than to respond to increasing data portability necessities for its customers, while als...

27 October 2009
10:42 GMT

Download New NeoOffice 3.0.1 with NeoOffice Mobile - Free

The people at NeoOffice.org have released a new version of their popular, open source office suite of applications for Mac OS X, NeoOffice. Version 3.0.1 adds Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard support, and includes NeoOffice Mobile, which provides a way to securely share NeoOffice files with other users and other computers....

27 October 2009
09:19 GMT

Microsoft Dodges Office Word Sales Injunction

Microsoft managed to dodge, even if only temporarily, an injunction that prevented it from selling one of the major components of the Office System due to a patent infringement case filed by i4i Inc. In the first half of August, 2009, Judge Leonard Davis, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, ...

4 September 2009
09:38 GMT

Next MS Office for Mac Replaces Entourage with Outlook

Microsoft has confirmed that the next version of Office for Mac is shipping with Outlook support, eliminating integration with the former personal information manager for Mac OS X, Entourage. Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit (MacBU) shared these details explaining that it wanted to meet the planning needs of enter...

14 August 2009
08:54 GMT

Women Would Rather Have Male Bosses, Study Shows

A recent study showed that women who embrace a more assertive attitude at the work place – the so-called “alpha” women – are more likely to earn more than those who come across as simply too good to be true or, oppositely, as neurotic. However, were women to have a choice in the election of th...

13 August 2009
13:21 GMT

Microsoft Brings Office to Nokia Symbian Smartphones

Owners of Nokia Eseries will be the first to benefit from a global alliance signed between Microsoft and Nokia designed to bring the Redmond company's mobile productivity solutions to the mobile phone giant's Symbian devices. Marking a first in terms of the scope and nature of their joint endeavor, the two ...

12 August 2009
12:11 GMT

Introducing the Make Office Better Initiative

MakeOfficeBetter is designed as an initiative that would employ what its initiators referred to as the magic of crowd sourcing for the bettering of the Office System. Although it should in fact be a Microsoft project, MakeOfficeBetter is an independent initiative put together by two Microsoft employees: Steve Zaske, ...

11 August 2009
09:33 GMT

NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 7 Already Available

Not even a full day into the release of Patch 6 for NeoOffice 3.0, the suite’s developers were notified of a problem where the Sun Presentation Minimizer extension license agreement caused Patch-6 installation to hang. The team behind the free office tool hence rapidly issued a fix under the form of a new patch...

11 August 2009
03:42 GMT

Download OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 RC1 for Mac OS X

OpenOffice 3.1.1 RC1 is now available to the general public, OpenOffice.org has announced. Version 3.1.1 RC1 brings a full page’s worth of fixes and enhancements, and fans can download the latest version of the open-source suite right here on Softpedia. Among the major changes mentioned in the changelog for Op...

10 August 2009
06:53 GMT

Download New NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 6

The team of developers at NeoOffice.org has released a new version of the full-featured, office suite of applications for Mac OS X, NeoOffice. Patch 6 for the 3.0 branch of the software brings default support for Mac OS X users to determine which module opens when launching the program. The latest update for version ...

10 August 2009
05:49 GMT

Download Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.1

Microsoft has released an update for Mac users of its Office 2008 suite of applications, fixing an issue that prevented them from opening some Office documents. The update is aimed at Office 2008, Office 2008 Home and Student Edition, Office 2008 Special Media Edition, Word 2008, Excel 2008, PowerPoint 2008, Entourag...

7 August 2009
05:05 GMT

Microsoft Office Visualization Tool Available for Download

The Microsoft Office Visualization Tool is an integral part of the Redmond company's security strategy, adapted to counteract the evolution of the threat environment, specifically the increasing focus attackers place on file format-based vulnerabilities and exploits. In this sense, OffVis is designed to equip IT...

27 July 2009
09:15 GMT

Female Fashion at the Workplace Going Between Extremes

In their desperate bid to avoid what is known as “office dress” and thus spark talk that they’re trying to emulate their male counterparts in everything, many women have decided to go with their feminine side and dress accordingly at the workplace. According to Maureen Rice of the Daily Mail, far fr...

20 July 2009
15:01 GMT

Branding Office 2010 Web Applications

Microsoft is currently hard at work cooking the next iteration of the Office System. Back in October 2008, the Redmond company pointed out that customers would be getting the Office 2010 products come 2010 and that it was extending the suite into the Cloud. At that time, Chris Capossela, senior vice president, Micros...

1 July 2009
10:26 GMT

NeoOffice.org Has Bad News to Report

NeoOffice.org’s pluby, also known as The Architect on the Trinity forums, has written a lengthy post explaining that he and his fellow colleagues (Fran, Patrick and Ed) have been encountering financial difficulties lately. As a result, they must now cut back on the services they used to provide free of charge t...

1 July 2009
04:43 GMT

NeoOffice 3.0 / 2.2.5 Patches 5 and 13 Released

NeoOffice.org has released new updates to its full-featured suite of office applications for Mac OS X, NeoOffice. The patches (5 for Neo 3.0 and 13 for version 2.2.5) fix an issue that was just found after Patch 4 for NeoOffice 3.0 was released. “Although we released the last NeoOffice patches only a week ago,...

26 June 2009
04:55 GMT

Microsoft Co-Founder Enhances Outlook with Xiant Filer

Whether it was the melancholy of the early Microsoft days, or the fact that he was suffocating in the Office Outlook email clutter, it's irrelevant, but fact is that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has launched a management tool for the Redmond-based company's email client.Allen is backing up Xiant, a compa...

23 June 2009
08:33 GMT

NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 4 Released - Download Here

The fine folks at NeoOffice.org have updated their popular office application suite for Mac OS X with a new patch. NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 4 delivers enhancements and bug fixes and is recommended for all users of NeoOffice 3.0. NeoOffice 2.2.5 is now at its 12th patch. Both updates can be downloaded for free, right here,...

18 June 2009
08:42 GMT

Google Apps Sync Kills Outlook Search

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, introduced at the start of the past week, manages to handicap the Redmond company's email client, delivered as a part of the Office System. Essentially, the installation of Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook manages to kill the email client's ability to search its...

17 June 2009
05:41 GMT

All-In-One Office App for iPhone - Documents To Go

DataViz Inc. has announced Documents To Go, a mobile office suite application for iPhone and iPod touch. Currently available in the iTunes App Store, Documents To Go allows users to view, edit and create Microsoft Word files, including Word 2007. iPhone and iPod touch owners can also use a desktop application to prov...

15 June 2009
10:35 GMT

BenzaWave from Heinz – The Smallest USB-Powered Microwave

Should we have ever found ourselves in a situation in which we were so pressed for time at work and there was clearly no chance of meeting deadlines that we skipped lunch in a bid to make up for it, things are about to change. Heinz, the company making ketchup and other types of canned food, has developed BenzaWave, ...

12 June 2009
14:21 GMT

Download Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.9

Microsoft has released an update to patch a critical vulnerability discovered in the Mac version of its Office suite for Mac OS X. While the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.9 Update improves security, it also optimizes and prepares Office 2008 for Mac for the installation of Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac Web Se...

11 June 2009
05:30 GMT

Download NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 3

The team at NeoOffice.org has released a new patch for NeoOffice 3.0 users, addressing tons of user-reported issues, but also implementing significant speed improvements to Spreadsheet formula calculation and the menubar display. The patch also works around a bug where transparent pixels in pasted images are shown as...

9 June 2009
08:49 GMT

Optimize Your Documents the Easy Way

The applications incorporated in Microsoft Office – Word, Excel and PowerPoint – are full of features for inserting images and objects into office documents provided by all companies. However, while these documents can offer big advantages, their typically large file sizes can be truly bothersome because ...

20 May 2009
11:51 GMT

Download OpenOffice 3.1.0 for Mac OS X

The people at OpenOffice.org have released the newest version of the popular office suite for Mac, Linux and PC, OpenOffice 3.1.0. The software is free to download for anyone owning a Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later. The 3.1.0 release is a major update to the powerful office suite. You can go here to have a...

11 May 2009
09:39 GMT

Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite Now in the App Store

Following a lengthy wait, Quickoffice Inc. is finally seeing its full-featured office suite listed in the App Store's Business category. The Quickoffice integrated application suite is touted as the essential high-performance mobile Office productivity tool for anyone on the go, by offering Enterprise-grade MS W...

5 May 2009
09:19 GMT

Download New NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 10

Just days after releasing the second patch for NeoOffice 3.0, NeoOffice.org has released Patch #10 for users of version 2.2.5 of the productivity suite. The maintenance update is recommended for all NeoOffice 2.2.5 users. NeoOffice is based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, integrating native Mac features. The full...

5 May 2009
04:13 GMT

NeoOffice 3.0 Users Offered New Patch (2) – Download Here

NeoOffice 3.0 has just received an important maintenance update, fixing over half a dozen issues reported with the software. Patch 2 for NeoOffice 3.0 addresses problems with the incorrect layout when pasting hidden rows or columns from NeoOffice Calc into Microsoft Word 2004, and several hang and crash problems. Bot...

4 May 2009
04:10 GMT

NeoOffice 3.0 Patch 1 and NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 9 Released

The people at NeoOffice.org have updated the powerful office suite for Mac OS X with two separate patches, one for the 3.0 release, and one for the old 2.2.5 version of NeoOffice. Most changes have been incorporated in both patches and simultaneously released. Users can update to the latest version of NeoOffice right...

15 April 2009
14:01 GMT

Waiting for QuickOffice to Hit the App Store

Announced as April Fools' kicked off, although not a joke, QuickOffice was confirmed as the world's first full-featured office suite for the iPhone. According to Quickoffice Inc., the suite is the first of its kind to include robust document and spreadsheet editors, along with file-access and content-manage...

15 April 2009
08:54 GMT

Microsoft Updates Office for Mac, Intros Try-Out-For-Free

Microsoft has released major updates to its 2004 and 2008 editions of the MS Office suite for Mac, adding improvements to enhance the security and performance of the software. The Windows maker has also released a trial edition of Office 2008 for Mac. The download is free, but operates only for 30 days before a paid ...

15 April 2009
06:15 GMT

92% Discount on Ashampoo Office 2008

There are too little software discounts these days and when they are up for grabs the general user interest should go up a notch or two. But when we're talking about office suites that “suffered” a 92% price cut, now this should stir up the involvement a bit. “A Complete Office Package at a Fa...

14 April 2009
03:11 GMT

0-Day PowerPoint Vulnerability Targeted by Attacks in the Wild

Microsoft has acknowledged officially that a Critical zero-day vulnerability affecting the PowerPoint component of various versions of the Office System is targeted by attacks in the wild. At this point in time there is no update designed to patch the security flaw that impacts Office PowerPoint 2000 Service Pack 3, ...

3 April 2009
09:18 GMT

First Full Office Suite for iPhone Announced – Quickoffice

A provider of mobile office productivity software has confirmed that it would be the first to release a complete Office suite for iPhone, with native support for editing Microsoft Word and Excel files. Quickoffice will be officially introduced and showcased at CTIA, April 1-3, 2009, at the Las Vegas Convention Center...

1 April 2009
09:30 GMT

Download NeoOffice 3.0 – New Chart Module, PDF Import in Draw, More

NeoOffice users can now download the publicly available version 3.0 of the full featured office suite of apps for Mac OS X. According to a post over at the NeoOffice forums, NeoOffice 3.0 includes nearly all of the features in OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 and has many of the most commonly used features in Microsoft Office.On...

31 March 2009
04:55 GMT

NeoOffice 2.2.5 (Patch 8) Now Installs on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard – Download Here

The people at NeoOffice.org have updated the suite of office applications with the same name to version 2.2.5 Patch 8, adding half a dozen fixes that improve the stability and functionality of the software. NeoOffice can be downloaded and used for free on any Mac running Mac OS X 10.3 or later.According to the releas...

25 March 2009
05:35 GMT

A Plant on the Desk, the Best Way to Fight Sick Building Syndrome

Taking a potted plant and placing it on your desk might not be just a girlie thing, as in, prompted by aesthetic reasons, as we all might be tempted to believe. In fact, a plant helps us fight allergies caused by indoor pollution in what is known as the “Sick Building Syndrome,” according to a NASA study....

24 March 2009
09:24 GMT

37% of Business Users Unknowingly Purchased Pirated Windows and Office

No less than 37% of business users unknowingly acquired pirated copies of Microsoft software, including Windows and Office, according to statistics made available by the Redmond company. The software giant reviewed no less than 30 companies and suggested that business users with counterfeit software in their IT infra...

23 March 2009
10:42 GMT

Move While Sitting to Avoid Back Pains

Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’re at your desk at work. You and millions of other people spend more than eight hours a day in front of a computer – to these, other two or three hours are added at night, in front of the TV. With us doing so much sitting and increasingly less physical activi...

3 March 2009
14:21 GMT

Learn to Dress to Feel Powerful at the Workplace

What with the ‘80s power dressing making a comeback in the fashion industry, it’s high time we also incorporated this empowering style into our office attire, stylists are saying. Since, at the end of the day, it is the clothes that make the man, or woman in our case, Susie Faux, founder of London store W...

24 February 2009
05:39 GMT

Download NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 7

The folks at NeoOffice.org have released the seventh patch for NeoOffice 2.2.5, the latest version of the office suite of applications for Mac OS X. The patch includes fixes to a few recently reported issues. The changelog for NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 7 reveals that the developers were able to fix a bug that caused the ...

11 February 2009
03:07 GMT

NeoOffice 3.0 Early Access 2 Patch 0 Out

Last week, the developers at NeoOffice.org announced early access to the latest version of NeoOffice 3.0 to users supporting development. NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications developed especially for Mac OS X. The suite includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database progr...

23 January 2009
03:36 GMT

NeoOffice 3.0 Early Access Now Available

NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications developed especially for Mac OS X. The suite includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database programs. Most Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel and PowerPoint files are supported, as are Excel VBA Macros. The developers at NeoOffice.org ...

14 January 2009
10:49 GMT

Download OpenOffice 3.0.1 RC 1 Mac

OpenOffice.org has released a new version of its powerful suite of office applications, OpenOffice 3.0.1 Release Candidate 1. OpenOffice.org is an open-source, multi-platform, and multilingual office suite, similar to MS Office and NeoOffice. The tool is compatible with all other major office suites, and is free to d...

7 January 2009
09:51 GMT

iWork '09 Brings Advanced Object Transition, Magic Move

At the Macworld keynote yesterday, Apple introduced the latest version of its productivity suite of applications, iWork '09. Feature highlights include advanced object transitions, which automatically animate objects using effects, and a new add-on, called Magic Move, which helps users create rich animations. K...

7 January 2009
03:18 GMT

Apple Accidentally Shows iWork '09 Download

Sources inform that, for a certain period of time, Apple’s Downloads section listed ‘iWork ‘09’ as available. Although not officially announced yet, iWork, along with iMovie and other apps in the iLife suite are rumored to get big updates come the Macworld 2009 keynote.Thanks to a couple of ea...

6 January 2009
12:54 GMT

NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 6 Fixes Slide Show Issues

NeoOffice.org has released the sixth patch for its full-featured suite of office applications, NeoOffice. The update addresses an issue that prevented video from being displayed in Slide Show Movies, according to a forum post.“Since we released NeoOffice 2.2.5 Patch 5 nearly two weeks ago, two users have report...

29 December 2008
13:18 GMT

Diet Strategies to Go with Your Office Job

As we were telling you a couple of days ago, recent studies have showed that almost 45 percent of women taking up a new desk job gain an average of 15 pounds in the first three months of employment. Called “the office 15,” the extra weight can be lost as easily as it’s gained, with just a little eff...

22 December 2008
02:45 GMT

Deskercises – Things to Do at the Office to Stay Fit

The term “the office 15” has been especially coined recently to denote the average of 15 pounds 45 percent of women gain in the first three months of a new desk job. While most of these women do not plainly do something to make the pounds pile on (like overeating), it has become a well known fact that sed...

20 December 2008
04:50 GMT


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