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Mainstream Support for Windows Vista Ends Today

Starting today, Microsoft’s Windows Vista platform enters the extended support period, after benefiting from mainstream support for the past five years. In addition to Vista, Microsoft has ended mainstream support for Office 2007 as well, urging users to upgrade to newer flavors of its products. Moving fort...

10 April 2012
11:02 GMT

Office 2010 Online Product Key Solution

Office 2010 customers that come across issues with the product key for their copy of the productivity suite can turn to an online help utility offered by Microsoft to help them resolve their problems. Office 2010 Product Key Solution is available free of charge, and can help users locate their product keys, provide...

15 November 2011
08:56 GMT

Download Free Service Pack Uninstall Tool for Office 2007 SP3

Customers that deploy the latest upgrade for Office 2007 but have a change of heart and wish to remove it can leverage the Microsoft Service Pack Uninstall Tool for the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite. The Service Pack Uninstall Tool for Office 2007 has been available for a few years now, and it was initially designed ...

27 October 2011
08:21 GMT

Access Office 2007 SP3 RTM Resources

With the availability of the third service pack for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007, Microsoft also released a collection of documents designed to provide insight into what’s most probably the latest upgrade for this version of the productivity suite and associated server offerings. For customers that might h...

26 October 2011
10:39 GMT

Office 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) RTM Available for Download

Office 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) RTM is now available for download from Microsoft. For the time being, Office 2007 customers will need to head over to the Microsoft Download Center and manually install the upgrade. It’s worth noting that SP3 is just a standard service pack release for Office 2007, meaning that ...

26 October 2011
02:38 GMT

Office 2007 Language Pack Sales Discontinued as of July 2011

Customers looking to buy Office 2007 Language Packs online will have a very hard time finding any. This because Microsoft has discontinued the sales of Office 2007 language packs through the retail channel as of mid-2011. A Microsoft representative working on the Office Language Interface Pack (LIP) team confirme...

10 October 2011
08:57 GMT

Download Office 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) RTM in October 2011

Customers still running Office 2007 will receive a new upgrade for their version of the productivity suite sometime by the end of this month, according to Microsoft. The software giant was targeting the fourth quarter of 2011 for the release of Office 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3), but it appears that the wait is ne...

7 October 2011
01:58 GMT

Disable Office 2010 Hyperlink Warning Messages Automatically

Provided that users know what they’re doing and can easily identify and keep away from potentially dangerous links they can go ahead and disable the hyperlink warning messages in both Office 2010 and Office 2007. The warning messages are designed to act as an extra security mitigation, informing users of the r...

20 May 2011
06:07 GMT

Download Ribbon Hero 2 for Office 2010 - Clippy's Second Chance

  The fun and innovative training game that Microsoft built around the new Ribbon / Fluent GUI in Office 2010 and Office 2007 has evolved to the next level. Customers running either Office 2010 or Office 2007 can now download Ribbon Hero 2, the successor of Ribbon Hero launched over a year ago, in January 2010...

26 April 2011
10:16 GMT

Office 2010 File Validation Now Available for Office 2003 and Office 2007

Microsoft is backporting a security mitigation from Office 2010 designed to protect users from malformed documents to Office 2003 and Office 2007. Announced back in December 2010, the Office File Validation feature is now generally available for Office 2003 and Office 2007, according to Modesto Estrada, Office progr...

13 April 2011
10:21 GMT

Free Office 2007 and 2010 Chemistry Add-in for Word 1.0

Microsoft is making it easier for Office users to include mathematical content into their documents, but also to create and share chemical information via Word. In addition to the Microsoft Mathematics Add-In for Word, customers now have available for download the Chemistry Add-in for Word (Chem4Word). Playing nice...

2 February 2011
06:03 GMT

File Validation from Office 2010 to Office 2003 and Office 2007

In mid-December 2010, Microsoft announced that it was planning to backport a piece of the security evolution of Office 2010 to two of the productivity suite’s predecessors. In order to increase the level of protection enjoyed by customers running Office 2007 and Office 2003 when opening documents problematic, ...

12 January 2011
10:17 GMT

Office File Format Viewers for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

 A free download from Microsoft is designed to enhance Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 with capabilities allowing users to view Office documents. Viewers for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 - Microsoft Office 97, 2000, 2003, XP and 2007 file format support are available from the Microsoft Download Center. Customers that ...

10 January 2011
04:52 GMT

December Office 2007 Update Riddled with Problems

Microsoft has pulled the latest update it released for Outlook 2007 from Microsoft Update citing a range of issues affecting customers. The company apologized to anyone affected, noting that it’s working to resolve all the issues and that will provide the refresh again when it meets quality standards. KB24121...

20 December 2010
08:25 GMT

Office 2010 File Validation Security Feature Backported to Office 2007 and 2003

Microsoft is getting ready to deliver an additional layer of security to customers running Office 2007 and Office 2003 next year.The Redmond company announced that in early 2011, a piece of the Office 2010 security evolution will be backported to the previous two versions of the productivity suite. In this manner, ...

15 December 2010
07:34 GMT

Office 2010 Beta the Largest in Microsoft’s History, Over 9 Million Downloads

The testing program for the latest iteration of the Office System was also the largest in Microsoft’s history the company revealed. It appears that the Beta development milestone of Office 2010 has been downloaded in excess of 9 million times, which means that the product had even more testers than Windows 7. ...

5 November 2010
08:25 GMT

Customers Say Microsoft Office Offers Superior Value to OpenOffice

A number of customers have dumped an open source productivity suite for Microsoft Office, citing superior value from the Redmond company’s solution. Just as Windows has an open source alternative in the various distributions of Linux, so Microsoft Office is rivaled by OpenOffice. And just as it is the case wi...

11 October 2010
09:12 GMT

Bridge Office and Moodle via New Add-in from Microsoft

The Office Add-in for Moodle is not the first tool from Microsoft designed to bridge the Moodle Course Management System (CMS) with its own technologies. In mid-2009, the Redmond-based company released an open-source Live Services Plug-in for Moodle, and now teachers running two pervasive teaching solutions, Office a...

7 April 2010
11:22 GMT

Free Ribbon Hero for Office 2010 and 2007 Updated

Microsoft has released a new update to an add-in for Office 2010 and Office 2007, designed to help users get familiarized with the new graphical user interface sported by the two releases of the productivity suite. Ribbon Hero was introduced in the second half of January as a game set up to run in the context of Offi...

23 March 2010
12:10 GMT

Free Office 2010 Upgrades If You Buy Office 2007 Today

Microsoft has held all details about a program designed to offer customers free upgrades to the next iteration of the Office System as long as they buy an eligible Office 2007 copy starting the past week, and a few months after Office 2010 General Availability. However, a day ahead of going live with the offering, t...

8 March 2010
07:46 GMT

Free Office 2010 Upgrades via the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee Program

At the start of February 2010, Microsoft was extremely shy when it came down to sharing details about upcoming free upgrade offerings for Office customers. However, as Office 2010 is growing closer to finalization, the Redmond company is starting to feel a tad more comfortable with the advertising of the Office 2010...

4 March 2010
09:58 GMT

New File Formats and Protocol Documentation Available

New resources are available for third-party developers that want to make sure their solutions play nice with Microsoft’s Office suite in heterogeneous environments. At the end of the past week, the Redmond company announced that it had published additional documentation detailing file formats and protocols used...

22 February 2010
05:23 GMT

Microsoft Releases New Office 2007 Edition for Africa

At the end of the past year, Microsoft launched a new edition of Office 2007 targeted at markets on the African continent. The Office 2007 Home and Student for Africa SKU comes with a discounted price of approximately 39 Euro or $53, namely the equivalent of 3,999 Kenyan Shillings. According to the Redmond company, t...

18 February 2010
10:22 GMT

Free Office 2010 for Office 2007 Customers via Office 2010 Technology Guarantee Program

Customers looking to buy a new license of Office might want to wait a tad, as Microsoft “guarantees” that they won’t be sorry. Offering customers free copies of Windows and Office is already an established marketing strategy for Microsoft. Windows Vista and Windows 7 were both made available free of...

5 February 2010
03:48 GMT

Download Free Ribbon Hero for Office 2010 and 2007

When Microsoft released Office 2010 public Beta 14.0.4536.1000 and subsequently, when Build 14.0.4730.1007 pre-RTM was leaked, I covered the two products in articles totaling a few thousand words and 175 screenshots. But I merely scratched the surface of what is Office 2010. At the same time, looking at my own experi...

20 January 2010
10:38 GMT

Win 20 Windows 7 Netbooks for Your School

Microsoft is offering teachers in the United Kingdom a chance to win no less than 20 netbooks for their school. The Redmond company kicked off today, January 13th, 2010, the Microsoft “Innovid” video competition, accessible through the company’s Partners In Learning Network. The new contest will als...

13 January 2010
04:31 GMT

Office Word 2007 Update Available for Download

Microsoft is making various changes to the Word component of the Office 2007 system, some designed to improve user experience, others set up to modify the product in accordance with a court injunction of sales for a patent infringement lawsuit lost by the company in 2009. In this regard, the Redmond company has relea...

8 January 2010
06:58 GMT

Download Free Office Enterprise 2007 Trial Version

Even with the next iteration of the Office client now less than half a year away, Microsoft continues to provide customers with the possibility to test-drive Office 2007. A trail version of Office Enterprise 2007 is currently up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center. According to the Redmond company, the free c...

7 January 2010
05:50 GMT

New Office 2007 Copies Available for Download for Volume Customers

In December 2009, when it confirmed that an appeal to a patent infringement case won by Toronto-based i4i, was denied, Microsoft also noted that it was planning to deliver new copies of the Office 2007 System and Word 2007 which did not include the infringing technology. The Redmond company lived up to its promise, ...

5 January 2010
05:51 GMT

New Office 2007 Copies Coming after Custom XML Appeal Was Denied to Microsoft

Microsoft is gearing up to make new copies of the Office 2007 and Word 2007 available to customers in the United States come next year, after it was denied an appeal in the custom XML patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by Toronto-based i4i. “We have just learned that the Court of Appeals for the Fed...

23 December 2009
06:29 GMT

Office 2010 Upgrades Already Available for Purchase

Some customers will be able to take advantage of a new Microsoft offer and already buy upgrades for the next iteration of the Office System. According to the Redmond company, this is possible through the Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 No Better Time Promotion. That’s right, an offering built around Off...

2 December 2009
07:48 GMT

Download Microsoft Math Worksheet Generator

Microsoft Education Labs is working to streamline the job of mathematics teachers when it comes down to handing over practice problems to students. In this regard, the Redmond-based company has made available for download the Math Worksheet Generator, a tool designed to simplify the creation of math problems. The sof...

7 September 2009
09:53 GMT

Download Open XML SDK 2.0 CTP for Office

Looking to leverage Open XML file formats in order to develop custom solutions? Then look no further than the Open XML SDK. Microsoft is currently offering devs version 2 of the software development kit as a testing release. The August 2009 Community Technology Preview of Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office is curr...

27 August 2009
08:59 GMT

New Office Genuine Advantage Update Available

The expansion of the anti-piracy efforts around the Office System announced by Microsoft on August 25th, 2009 was accompanied by the release of an update for Office Genuine Advantage. OGA together with Windows Genuine Advantage are part of the Redmond company’s strategy to curb the piracy of its two main cash c...

26 August 2009
05:39 GMT

Microsoft Expands Office Genuine Advantage Antipiracy Measures

Microsoft is stepping up its antipiracy game related to the Office 2007 System. In an effort to lend a helping hand to customers that are looking to buy genuine products, the Redmond company will expand the antipiracy measures developed for Office 2007. The initiative is designed to allow customers in no less than 13...

25 August 2009
10:55 GMT

Office 2007 SP2 Automatic Upgrades Start in the Week of September 21

In approximately one month, Microsoft will debut the next phase of the availability of Office 2007 Service Pack 2. In this regard, in the week of September 21st, 2009, Office 2007 SP2 RTM will become available via Automatic Updates. The Redmond company revealed that it would serve automatic upgrades to the second ser...

18 August 2009
11:39 GMT

Office Online Templates New 2010 Calendars Available

Users of the Office System from Microsoft now have available a range of new calendars tailored to the upcoming year. The Redmond company made new 2010 Calendars available for download via the Templates section of the Office Online website. There are no less than 75 calendars offered for the various components of the ...

7 July 2009
05:30 GMT

Microsoft Looking for Office 2007 Success Stories

Microsoft is looking for success stories from customers related to Office 2007, the successor of Office 2003. One of the aspects of the marketing efforts for the Redmond company involved including and highlighting of the client's perspective following the adoption of its technologies. Office 2007 makes no except...

6 July 2009
07:41 GMT

Updates Resolve 2007 Office Servers SP2 Incorrect Expiration Date

It has taken Microsoft almost two months since the release to manufacturing of the second service pack for the Office 2007 System to make available fixes for an issue plaguing select server solutions in the suite. In all fairness, Microsoft came out in May 2009 and indicated that the installation of the 2007 Office s...

25 June 2009
10:35 GMT

Open XML Compatibility Pack - Over 100 Million Downloads

Downloads of the Open XML Compatibility Pack have passed the 100 million mark, Microsoft revealed. The Redmond-based company is offering the Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats for users of Office releases prior to Office 2007 in order to enable them to not only open, but also ...

24 June 2009
09:49 GMT

IBM Offers Free-of-Charge Alternative to Microsoft's Office

IBM has just announced a new solution designed to help business customers reduce their costs by turning to the company's latest version of Lotus Symphony, a productivity suite designed as an alternative to Microsoft's Office. According to IBM, customers could save up to hundreds of dollars on each of their ...

19 June 2009
09:11 GMT

Steal Office 2007 Ultimate Promotion Gets Discontinued in UK and Korea

In mid 2008 Microsoft managed to transform Office 2007 Ultimate into nothing short of an ultimate steal. In fact, The Ultimate Steal was the name of the promotion inviting students to literally steal the Ultimate SKU of the Office 2007 System. Through the campaign, the Redmond company had slashed the Estimated Retail...

16 June 2009
07:18 GMT

Microsoft Software on Dell Download Store Cheaper than on the Microsoft Store

Dell Download Store has added Microsoft software products to the lineup of offerings available to customers. And fact is that buyers are bound to get a better deal on Microsoft software on the Dell Download Store than they are on the Microsoft Store. At least for the time being. The US PC manufacturer offers only var...

12 June 2009
07:39 GMT

Office Enterprise 2007 for Just $9.95

As is the case for the Enterprise flavor of Windows Vista, Microsoft hasn't offered public pricing details for Office Enterprise 2007. The Redmond company is selling both Vista Enterprise and Office 2007 Enterprise SKUs as part of volume licensing deals via Software Assurance, with price tags tailored to specifi...

9 June 2009
03:58 GMT

Office 2000 Support Ends in July, 2009

As Microsoft is making its way onto the next iteration of the Office system, it is gearing up to kill support for Office 2000 in just two months. Come July 14, 2009, the Redmond company will discontinue all support for Office 2000. The software giant traditionally provides support for its products spanning a consiste...

20 May 2009
04:47 GMT

Open XML Validator and Document-Library in the Making

An Open XML Validator and a Document-Library are in the making courtesy of Fraunhofer FOKUS. With Microsoft as a development partner supporting its activities, Fraunhofer FOKUS is gearing up to introduce a new Document-Interoperability-Lab focused on ISO/IEC 29500 (also referred to as Office Open XML) and ECMA-376 (E...

18 May 2009
10:21 GMT

Office Suite 2007 SP2 Uninstall Tool

Microsoft released the second service pack for Office 2007 to manufacturing and to web at the end of the past month. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) downloads went live on April 28, 2009, and have since then been up for grabs. At the same time, the Redmond company is allowing users who have deployed the service pack...

11 May 2009
10:14 GMT

More Pre Details: Support for Office 2007

The nearing launch of one of the most anticipated mobile phones of the year, the Palm Pre, has led to a wide range of rumors regarding the possible date when Sprint, the carrier that will have it exclusively in the US, plans on making the handset available. Rumors and reports on a possible price tag the Pre will feat...

7 May 2009
04:41 GMT

Office 2007 SP2 Now Supports 18 Formats, More than Any Rival Product

The launch of Office 2007 Service Pack 2 earlier this week represents not only the evolution of one of the Redmond company's main cash cows, but also, in Microsoft's perspective, a step further in terms of interoperability. Office 2007 SP2 comes with support for no less than 18 document file formats. Tom Ro...

30 April 2009
04:27 GMT

Slipstream/Integrate SP2 RTM into Office 2007

As is the general case with service pack releases from Microsoft, SP2 for the company's latest version of the productivity suite can be integrated into Office 2007. The process, known as slipstreaming, involves making the Service Pack 2 RTM an integral part of Office 2007. The result will permit customers who ac...

29 April 2009
07:02 GMT


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