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Windows Live Translator Comes to Office 2007

The Office 2007 System is evolving, and so is Office 2003. As a direct result of end user feedback, Microsoft has worked to bridge Windows Live Translator with its Office productivity suites. For the time being, Windows Live Translator will have to be manually integrated into Office, but the Redmond company also plan...

8 August 2008
11:19 GMT

Microsoft Service Pack Fiesta Not Over with XP SP3 and Vista SP1

Since mid-2007, Microsoft has entered Service Pack-mode, as it debuted work on Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 and Office 2007 SP1, as well as Office 2003 SP3. A year later, the Redmond company's Service Pack Fiesta is still continuing even after the general availability of XP SP3 and Vista SP1. With the servi...

9 May 2008
03:05 GMT

SP3 Automatic Distribution for Office 2003

The end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008 have been a veritable Service Pack fiesta for Microsoft in terms of the company's flagship products. Both Windows and Office have got their fair share of updates, but the productivity suite of both the 2003 and 2007 versions has simply beaten the Windows client to the pu...

28 February 2008
02:10 GMT

Service Pack 3 via Microsoft Update Automatic Distribution for Office 2003

Microsoft made available for download the third service pack for Office 2003 in mid September 2007. For over four months now, Office 2003 users have been able to access the latest upgrade for Office 2003 and enjoy a range of enhancements across the table from performance boost, to security, reliability and stability ...

28 January 2008
04:16 GMT

Office 2003 SP3 Disables Legacy File Formats

Microsoft offered unspecified security concerns as the sole reasons behind a move made with the third service pack for Office 2003, which has resulted in the blocking of certain file formats following the installation of Office 2003 SP3. The vast majority of items disallowed by the service pack are Microsoft legacy f...

4 January 2008
06:14 GMT

Office 2003 SP3 Available, Tailor Fitted on Windows Vista

Microsoft announced that the third service pack for Office 2003 will be made available for download today. According to the Redmond company, Office 2003 SP3 is designed to bring to the table enhanced security and improved compatibility with a range of products, but essentially with Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 ...

18 September 2007
03:35 GMT

Vista Is Hurt Pretty Bad, But Office 2007 Is Living It Up

Windows Vista is banged up pretty bad, according to a report from the NPD Group, while in contrast, the Office 2007 System is living it up. According to the data, Vista is delivering a market performance inferior to that of its predecessor, Windows XP, in terms of sales volumes at the U.S. retail outlets. Standalone ...

12 September 2007
09:43 GMT

Office 2003 Service Pack 3 Just Around the Corner?

With the Office 2007 System out the door since January 30, Microsoft is now getting ready for the release of the third service pack for Office 2003. Or at least this conclusion can be drawn from a download made available by the Redmond company on July 24. Office 2003 Service Pack 3 Administrative Template (ADM), OPAs...

25 July 2007
05:41 GMT

Office 2003 and XP Downloads Not Canceled but Some Product Keys Have Expired

Microsoft downloads for Office 2003 and Office XP are alive and kicking. At the end of May 2007, the Redmond company announced plans to discontinue offering activation versions of Office 2003 and Office XP via MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Along with the online offerings, Microsoft was also getting ready to cut off supp...

29 June 2007
02:37 GMT

Master the Office 2007 System Ribbon

The Office 2007 System, formerly code-named Office 12, was made available for the general consumers on January 30 concomitantly with the launch of Windows Vista. And just as Microsoft's latest operating system featured a revamped graphical user interface and introduced Vista Aero, so did Office 2007 bring to the...

28 June 2007
12:12 GMT

Microsoft Takes Down 125 Windows and Office Pirates

The Windows platform and the Office productivity suite are Microsoft's main cash cows. But this status quo also implies that the two products are among the most prominent targets for software piracy worldwide. The Redmond company has taken a passive approach to both Windows and Office piracy with the Windows Gen...

28 June 2007
06:12 GMT

Microsoft to Kill Office 2003 on June 30

Office 2003 is living its last days. As of the end of June, the Redmond Company has announced that Office 2003 will no longer be available for original equipment manufacturers. After five months of availability for the Office 2007 System, released to the general consumers on January 30, 2007, Microsoft will no longer...

19 June 2007
05:39 GMT

Run Freak Installations of Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2007 on the same Vista

And from the never ending saga of freak Windows Vista installations... users can run Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003 and the 2007 Office System in parallel on the same Vista operating system. And Microsoft is even offering technical guidance for this. However, the task of getting all four Mi8c.rosoft productivity...

24 May 2007
07:27 GMT

Restriction and Wasted Time - Microsoft's Idea of Security

The Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment tool is designed to bulletproof Office 2003, but it comes with the inherent shortcomings of an extra layer of security, added artificially like another limb on a Frankenstein creation. Security was not the focus of the Office 2003 productivity suite, not in the sen...

23 May 2007
04:15 GMT

What to Do If Office 2007 Holds Your Documents Captive

File Block Functionality is a little known security feature implemented into version 2003 and 2007 of the Microsoft Office System. The Redmond Company wanted to fix the notoriety aspect on May 21, concomitantly with announcing the availability of the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment. File Block Functi...

22 May 2007
08:48 GMT

New Security for Office 2003

The Office 2003 productivity suite has received a brand new extra panoply designed to shield users from malformed files. Microsoft has announced yesterday, May 21, 2007 the availability of the Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE). There has been talk about MOICE for quite a while, and the beginning of May s...

22 May 2007
05:15 GMT

Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment

The Office 2003 is a victim of its own success. Much in the same way as the Windows platform, Office offers an excellent target but also a vector for attacks, outside of the exploits taking advantage of its flaws. Still, this status quo, fueled by the suite's ubiquity is about to change. Microsoft is right on tr...

10 May 2007
07:28 GMT

Service Pack 3 Coming to Office 2003

Microsoft plans to follow up on upgrading the Office 2003 System just three months after the Redmond Company has made the 2007 Office System available to the general public alongside Windows Vista, on January 30, 2007. According to Microsoft, the third service pack for Office 2003 will be focused on enhancing the sec...

27 April 2007
06:28 GMT

Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007

Microsoft has opened Office 2007 to users of the previous versions of the productivity suite. At the end of the past week, the Redmond Company made available the Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 file formats. The release addresses users of Office XP and Office 2003 and is designed to bri...

23 April 2007
03:08 GMT




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