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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

Download Office 2007 Servers Service Pack 2 (SP2) RTM

In addition to the second service pack for Office 2007, Microsoft has also made available for download Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 Servers and for Windows SharePoint Services. With SP2, the Redmond company catalyzes the next stage in the evolution of the Office 2007 servers, including Office SharePoint Server, Off...

29 April 2009
05:06 GMT

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) RTM Is Here

It's time for the next stage in the evolution of the Office 2007 System. Microsoft will release Office 2007 Service Pack 2 today, April 28, 2009. The Redmond company has already announced the availability of the service pack; however, at the time of this article the download links for the service pack were not y...

28 April 2009
09:16 GMT

Office 2010 Gets a Redesigned Logo

On April 15, 2009, Microsoft confirmed officially that the next iteration of the Office System, codenamed Office 14, would be branded as Office 2010. The Redmond company is in the early stages of development, but it has already delivered an Alpha version of Office 2010 to selected testers. Subsequently, screenshots o...

22 April 2009
14:51 GMT

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) RTM Available on April 28, 2009

At the end of the past week Microsoft confirmed that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 would be made available for download in April 2009, but failed to provide the specific deadline. The Redmond company has since then decided to make public the release date for Office 2007 SP2: April 28, 2009. According to the software gia...

16 April 2009
09:18 GMT

Download Updated Outlook Connector for Windows Live Hotmail

Microsoft has refreshed the software designed to bridge Office Outlook email client with its online email services. The updated Outlook Connector is now available for download, but users should be aware of the fact that the version number continues to be 12.1. Office Outlook Connector 12.1 was initially made availabl...

16 April 2009
06:55 GMT

Office 2007 SP2 RTM Available for Download in April 2009

Microsoft is gearing up to release the second service pack for the Office 2007 System. In this regard, the Redmond company announced that it planned to start serving Office 2007 Service Pack 2 to business customers via Windows Server Update Services by the end of this month. Even at this point in time Microsoft has y...

10 April 2009
07:32 GMT

Download Free Microsoft Translator Installer for Office 2007

Back in August 2008 Microsoft made it easy to integrate what was then Windows Live Translator into the Office System. At that point in time, the Redmond company only permitted manually setting its machine translator in Office 2007 and Office 2003, but this is no longer the case. The Microsoft Translator Installer fo...

7 April 2009
08:27 GMT

Office 2007 SP2 Build 12.0.6416.1000 Leaked and Available for Download

While working its way to Office 14, Microsoft is also hard at work building the second service pack for the Office 2007 System. Back in October 2008 a member of the Office Service Pack team indicated that “Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system is expected to be released in the near future. A...

2 April 2009
03:13 GMT

Office 2007 Downloads 8 Times Greener than Office 2007 DVDs

The process of producing a single DVD with a copy of Office 2007 involves “hidden” costs beyond the actual resources poured into making the product, namely a toll on the environment. In fact, for each Office 2007 DVD that makes it on store shelves carbon emissions roughly equivalent to burning 1 gallon of...

1 April 2009
07:01 GMT

Download Free Microsoft Open Source Ontology Word 2007 Plug-ins

In a move designed to contribute to the evolution of collaboration and connection via the web through scientific research documents, Microsoft has made available for download two plug-ins set up to bridge Word 2007 with Science Commons ontologies. Both the Ontology Add-in for Office Word 2007 and the Creative Commons...

12 March 2009
08:30 GMT

2007 Office to Work with Non-Microsoft Email Clients

Microsoft is gearing up to offer customization details that will permit users of Office 2007 to make the productivity suite play nice with non-Microsoft email clients. Office 2007 brings to the table Outlook 2007, but for customers that opt to run an email application other than Windows Live Mail, Outlook express, Ou...

9 March 2009
08:16 GMT

Office 14 Beta on the Horizon

Microsoft is cooking the next version of the Office System for release in 2010, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has revealed in the second half of February 2009. Still, development has already started for the successor of Office 2007, with Senior Vice President Chris Capossela promising that more details on the...

4 March 2009
11:48 GMT

Microsoft Confirms Attacks Targeting Critical 0-Day Office Excel Vulnerability

Microsoft has officially confirmed attacks targeting a Critical 0-day vulnerability affecting various releases of Office Excel. According to the Redmond company the vulnerability is actively being exploited in the wild, and a patch is in the works, although no security update is available as of yet to resolve the fla...

25 February 2009
04:06 GMT

Word 2007 Plug-in Offers Spell Checker for Dyslexic Users

Ghotit is a plug-in for Office Word designed to enhance the standard spell check capabilities of the application with dyslexic users in mind. Microsoft has long referred to both the Windows operating system and the Office System, its two main cash cows, as platforms, since the products can be easily extended with con...

19 February 2009
09:21 GMT

New Windows Server “Flavor” - Pizza

No, Windows Server is not going to come in a new pepperoni flavor, in addition to the traditional SKU, but fact is that editions of Microsoft's server-based Windows operating system will play a role in running the next-generation store system platform for the Domino’s Pizza delivery chain. The world's...

2 February 2009
09:56 GMT

Download Office 2007 Resource Kit

Microsoft is offering as a free download the Resource Kit content already made available on TechNet for the Office 2007 System. Packaged in Compiled Help format, the 2007 Office Resource Kit Technical Library weighs in at just 3.7 MB, and end-users will need an operating system capable of dealing with compiled help f...

21 January 2009
03:40 GMT

Office 14 Goes Alpha

Although with Windows Vista and the Office 2007 System, Microsoft appeared to have synchronized the development cycles of its main cash cows, while the Beta for Windows 7 is already available for the general public, the Alpha for Office 14 has only shipped to a select pool of testers. However, the Redmond company did...

14 January 2009
09:59 GMT

Microsoft Delivers Tech Tips for the 2008 Holiday Gifts

Still undecided about gifts with Christmas just around the corner? Well, Microsoft has shared a few tech tips with consumers, in order to get them through the 2008 festive season, all of them pointing to Office Home and Student 2007. The Redmond company is applauding its low-end edition of Office 2007 as a perfect ho...

18 December 2008
06:16 GMT

Download Office Outlook Connector 12.1

Microsoft is applauding a new level of stability and reliability when it comes down to integrating Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Calendar in Microsoft Outlook via the Office Outlook Connector. In this regard, at the start of this week the Redmond company made available for download Office Outlook Connector 12...

17 December 2008
08:32 GMT

Office 2007 SP2 a Commitment to File Formats Interoperability

Having brought Open XML on par with ODF by ratifying the native file format of the Office 2007 System as an ISO standard, Microsoft is now embracing both OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) version 1.1 and Open XML (Ecma 376 Edition 1). The company claims that its commitment to file format interoperability is at the hea...

17 December 2008
06:20 GMT

ODF Implementation into Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Microsoft has already announced that it will make Office 2007 Service Pack 2 play nice with a range of file formats and standards including XPS, PDF, and ODF. In this regard, on December 16, 2008, the Redmond company has published the ODF 1.1 Implementer Notes for Office 2007 SP2. In this manner, Doug Mahugh, a senio...

16 December 2008
11:52 GMT

Office 2007 SP2 Encryption Improvements on Par with Office 14

The encryption improvements planned for Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will place the system on par with Office 14. According to Microsoft, following the implementation of SP2, Office 2007 will be able to play nice with documents encrypted using Office 14, the next iteration of the Office System. Aiming to make encryptio...

5 December 2008
12:46 GMT

Microsoft Applauds Open XML Interoperability with HTML, ODF and Java

With Open XML now ISO certified, Microsoft continues to pour efforts into the standard in order to ensure interoperability between document format implementations and across different platforms. An example of the success of the Document Interoperability Initiative, launched in March 2008, is the fact that Open XML no...

3 December 2008
10:55 GMT

Microsoft: Office 2007 Home and Student Not for Businesses

Just in time for Black Friday and ensuing shopping frenzy weekend kick starting the 2008 holiday season, Microsoft offered Office 2007 the Home and Student edition at a discounted price of over 50%. The offer is still valid until the end of December 1, with the price of Office 2007 Home and Student edition down to ju...

1 December 2008
12:03 GMT

Office Home and Student 2007 Price Slashed by Over 50%

Microsoft has slashed the price of its Office Home and Student 2007 edition starting with the Black Friday weekend. Following Thanksgiving, and to mark the official debut of the 2008 holiday season, the Redmond company is offering Office Home and Student 2007 at over 50% less than its normal price. In this regard, a ...

28 November 2008
16:11 GMT

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 More Secure than SP1

In order to support applauding the security enhancements in Windows Vista, Microsoft has played the vulnerability counting game on more than one occasion, comparing the volume of security flaws in the latest edition of the Windows client with previous releases, and even with Linux and Mac OS X. However, Windows Vista...

27 November 2008
07:46 GMT

Office Web Applications to Work on Linux and Mac OS, Firefox and Safari

Extending Office into the Cloud means for Microsoft going beyond Windows and Internet Explorer. In this context, the Redmond company will deliver support for the open source Linux operating system, and for Apple's Mac OS platform. In addition, users will not be restricted to Internet Explorer when accessing the ...

12 November 2008
07:35 GMT

Tailored XP Desktop via the Microsoft Magellan Learning Suite

Microsoft is preparing to develop a tailored Windows XP desktop for cheap portable computers via its Microsoft Magellan Learning Suite, in collaboration with the Portuguese government. According to the Redmond company, Magellan computers will come preloaded not only with the XP operating system but also with the Offi...

6 October 2008
05:15 GMT

Microsoft Offers a Taste of Office 14

Via the Access 14 developer kitchen, Microsoft is preparing to offer a taste of Office 14. The Redmond giant has so far offered little official details on the successor of the Office 2007 System which shipped concomitantly with Windows Vista at the end of January 2007. However, as far as the development of Office 14 ...

3 October 2008
04:57 GMT

Piracy Slashes Office 2007 Prices, Just as It Did for Vista

Back in 2007, Microsoft severely slashed the prices of several editions of its Windows Vista operating system and now it’s the turn of Office 2007 System. However, the company's moves are valid exclusively for the Chinese market. The Redmond giant is attempting to curb the rampant piracy of its flagship pr...

24 September 2008
07:58 GMT

Microsoft Prepares to Kill Office 2003 SP2

Time is running out for Office 2003 Service Pack 2. Microsoft is gearing up to pull the plug on the precursor of Office 2003 SP3. As of the coming month, the Redmond company will no longer deliver support for Service Pack 2 for Office 2003. Even though the Microsoft Support Lifecycle can span to as much as two years,...

24 September 2008
07:46 GMT


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