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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Microsoft has updated the documentation associated with the August 2008 Office 2007 cumulative update packages release. Designed to be integrated into both the core suite components of the 2007 Office System and into Office 2007 servers, the cumulative update packages are essentially bundles of both the latest hotfix... |
12 September 2008
06:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to wrap up the development process of the Cloud extension of its Office System. Office Live Workspace Beta is designed as a Microsoft response to Google Docs and Spreadsheets, but not a competitor or an alternative. In fact, Office Live Workspace Beta is by all means not an equivalent of th... |
3 September 2008
12:59 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering Office Professional Plus 2007 with a new price tag of just $25 net, representing the first year payment. This is of course valid only through the Redmond giant's Open Value Subscription program, as Eric Ligman, Microsoft senior manager, Community Engagement, US Partner Strategy, Marketing a... |
3 September 2008
06:46 GMT |
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A new prototype offered by Office Labs is designed to kick the chart capabilities of Excel 2007 to the next level. According to the official description of Chart Advisor, the project is merely an add-in for Excel 2007 running on 32-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista. Set up to deliver an alternative to putting charts t... |
26 August 2008
05:25 GMT |
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Microsoft indicated that by mid-2008 it had sold in excess of 120 million licenses of the Office 2007 System, in tandem with the 180 million copies of Windows Vista shipped. Following the RTM of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the Redmond giant introduced new discounted prices for the Home Premium and Ultimate editions... |
25 August 2008
05:20 GMT |
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Microsoft has slashed the price of the Ultimate SKU of its Office 2007 System by no less than 91%, taking into consideration the estimated retail price offered by the company. The resulting offering made available under The Ultimate Steal brand umbrella is an initiative geared towards students on several markets worl... |
21 August 2008
13:13 GMT |
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A new Microsoft prototype offered as a free download is designed to assess incoming emails and prioritize them according to their importance. The tool is a Microsoft Office Labs project set up to integrate exclusively with Office Outlook 2007. Email Prioritizer runs on Exchange Server and represents a taste of an ema... |
20 August 2008
15:26 GMT |
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Following the joint release of its flagship products at the end of January 2008, Microsoft started building the successors of Windows Vista and the Office 2007 System. All the while, the Redmond company managed to make public as little information as possible not only on Windows 7 development milestones and official ... |
18 August 2008
04:06 GMT |
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A new prototype from Microsoft promises to transform a simple Office 2007 PowerPoint presentation into a zoomable canvas. In this regard, Microsoft Office Labs pptPlex has been designed in order to deliver an alternative method to explore and to display the contents of a PowerPoint slide deck. Because of the new zoom... |
15 August 2008
04:51 GMT |
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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 |
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Microsoft has offered official confirmation that Office 14 would ship either in late 2009, or at the beginning of 2010. In this context, Office 14 will hit the shelves in tandem with Windows 7. By the looks of it, Microsoft is gearing up for a repeat of the joint Windows Vista - the Office 2007 System launch with its... |
30 July 2008
07:52 GMT |
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The joint releases of Windows Vista and the Office 2007 System in November 2006 and January 2007, designed to be a repeat of Windows 95 and Office 95, have had an inherent result on consumer perception. The simultaneous release of the latest versions of Microsoft's flagship products indicated that the Redmond co... |
14 July 2008
08:51 GMT |
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In the fight against the inroads made into its traditional territory by open source solutions, Microsoft has poured consistent efforts in fending off Open Office and its default file format Open Document Format. But ratifying Open XML (from Office 2007 and Office 2008) as an ISO standard is just half the work, and t... |
30 June 2008
09:28 GMT |
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The Office Live Workspace sweepstakes introduced on March 3, 2008 have come to an end. Microsoft announced that David Austin, a graduate student, is the winner of the $100,000 grand prize. The sweepstakes provided a way for Microsoft to attract attention and build an initial user base for the online Office service de... |
23 June 2008
09:40 GMT |
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In January 2007, Microsoft made available Windows Vista and the Office 2007 System in tandem, in an effort to emphasize the intimate connection between its flagship products. And it appears that the Redmond company will attempt similar marketing tactics with the releases of the next iterations of the Windows client a... |
10 June 2008
08:04 GMT |
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Traditionally, Microsoft has relayed on its ecosystem of retail, original equipment manufacturing, and system builders partners to sell its software solutions. Unlike Apple, which has its own retail outlets and also sells products via an online shop, the Redmond company has always used intermediaries to get its softw... |
2 June 2008
10:39 GMT |
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The first Beta build of the Article Authoring Add-in went live at the end of the past month, and is now available for download. The add-in is designed to integrate seamlessly with Office Word 2007, and was unveiled during the Society for Scholarly Publishing event in Boston on May 30. The Article Authoring Add-in is ... |
2 June 2008
07:56 GMT |
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Microsoft has yet to wrap up with the distribution of Office 2007 SP1, and is already looking ahead to the next service pack, in a move designed to offer additional choices for end users but also to take interoperability to the next level, in terms of the company's flagship productivity suite. Office 2007 Servic... |
22 May 2008
07:18 GMT |
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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 |
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Microsoft is hard at work searching for ways to improve its Office System. This is why the company has introduced a quasi-independent effort dubbed Office Labs. Designed to be a sandbox set up to streamline the experimenting, building and testing of new ideas, Microsoft Office Labs will offer the first taste of new p... |
29 April 2008
04:42 GMT |
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