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Almost 16 Million Office 2010 Copies Sold in 6 Months

While it certainly doesn’t come close to Windows 7 in terms of uptake, Office 2010 is indeed enjoying its fair share of market success, having earned the crown of Microsoft’s fastest selling productivity suite to date. At the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft ...

7 January 2011
09:51 GMT

Office 2010 Multilanguage Deployment and Companion Proofing Languages

In certain scenarios the default language of Office 2010 is not sufficient for customers, especially companies that employ workers from various countries around the world. This is why, just as it is the case for Windows, Microsoft allows for multiple languages to be used with the same copy of its productivity suite....

3 January 2011
04:00 GMT

Microsoft Warns of Attacks against Office RTF Vulnerability Patched in November

Microsoft is warning customers running supported versions of Office that it has detected attacks in the wild designed to exploit a vulnerability in the Word component of the productivity suite which was patched in November 2010. According to the Redmond company, the targeted attacks aim to leverage Microsoft Office ...

30 December 2010
04:36 GMT

Top 10 2010 Microsoft Products

Seeing as 2011 is just four days away, I thought I’d have a look back at 2010 and make a selection of the most important products that Microsoft launched over the past year. You’ll be able to find the list below, but I just want to say a few words before you start reading. The product enumeration is not ...

28 December 2010
03:12 GMT

Office 2010 Reach the Top Contest Takes Winner to the Top of the World

Participants have a tad over a month at their disposal to enter a competition that could win them a trip to the world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa in Dubai by entering in the Office 2010 Reach the Top competition. Entries in the contest will be accepted until February 1st, 2011, so there’s plenty of t...

27 December 2010
03:09 GMT

Deploying Windows 7 Core Optimized Desktops

A new resource available as a free download from Microsoft provides guidance for customers that are planning to make the jump to technologies such as Windows 7 and Office 2010. ‘Deploying the Core Optimized Desktop Using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010’ is a rather self-explanatory label, and inter...

22 December 2010
09:18 GMT

Microsoft Kills Office Anti-Piracy Mechanism

Microsoft has killed off the anti-piracy mechanism designed to validate whether customers were running genuine copies of Office or not. And the Redmond company has been as quiet about the death of Office Genuine Advantage as it was about the recent release of Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0. However, the move was...

20 December 2010
02:41 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 Web Apps Now Available in 26 Countries

The Cloud extension of the Office 2010 productivity suite is now available to in excess of a third of the world’s population according to Microsoft. At the start of this week, Office Web Apps were expanded to 15 new markets in addition to the initial 11 where the Cloud variants of the main Office 2010 comp...

9 December 2010
02:49 GMT

Download 9 Free e-Books from Microsoft on Win7, WP7, VS2010, and More

Microsoft Press is offering no less than nine free ebooks for download on a variety of topics, from the latest iterations of the Windows client and the Office productivity suite to the first Windows Phone OS and to the company’s developer platform. At the bottom of this article users will be able to find the c...

2 December 2010
12:10 GMT

Microsoft: Customers Buying Office 2010 at Record Pace

Half a year after the commercial launch of Office 2010, Microsoft is noting that this version of the productivity suite is selling like hot cake. The Redmond company stated on numerous occasions that Office 2010 is the fastest selling release of Office in the company’s history, and it appears that the strong m...

2 December 2010
10:51 GMT

Activation and Reactivation of Office Professional Plus 2010 Subscription

Unlike non-subscription version of Office 2010, subscription flavors of the productivity suite require not only the initial activation, but also subsequent reactivations for the entire duration of the license. Microsoft will be offering Office Professional Plus 2010 as a part of its Cloud productivity offering Offic...

29 November 2010
06:27 GMT

Free Windows 7 Setting Pack and Office 2010 Security Baseline – Download from Microsoft

A new collection of free Microsoft resources enables customers to bulletproof environments running the latest versions of Windows client and Server as well as the most recent iteration of the office productivity suite. The Redmond company has released new security baselines and settings packs for Windows Server 2008...

26 November 2010
08:50 GMT

Microsoft Welcomes Google’s Admission of Defeat on the Productivity Front

Commenting on Google’s announcements of Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, Andrew Kisslo, a Sr. Product Manager with Office, noted that the Mountain View-based company is essentially waving the white flag on the productivity front. In Kisslo’s perspective the search giant is now embracing Office as the ...

25 November 2010
10:26 GMT

Google Docs Syncs with Microsoft Office, If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them

Google has never made much of a secret of the fact that it is trying to convert Microsoft Office customers to Google Docs, but the company’s latest move is more of a “if you can’t beat them join them” tactic. Essentially, the Mountain View-based search giant is trying to make Google Docs an i...

23 November 2010
08:28 GMT

Office 2010 SP1 Beta Build 14.0.6011.1000 Leaks in the Wild

Microsoft’s private Beta development milestone for the first major upgrade for Office 2010 has become somewhat of less private. The bits for Office 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta have been leaked almost immediately after the release was made available for download on Microsoft Connect. Once a select group of tester...

19 November 2010
09:20 GMT

Microsoft Office Web Apps Augments Facebook's Messages

While Facebook users already had easy access to the Cloud version of Office 2010 via Docs.com from FUSE Labs, Microsoft has worked with the social network in order to integrate Office Web Apps even deeper into Facebook.With the social network debuting its new Messages platform, the promise is that over the coming mo...

16 November 2010
09:09 GMT

Download Office 2010 (Service Pack) SP1 Beta Build 14.0.6011.1000

Microsoft has made available for download the first Beta development milestone for Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta Build 14.0.6011.1000. Less than a month ago, in the second half of October 2010, early adopters that had previously involved in the testing process of Office 2010 started receiving invitations to ...

16 November 2010
02:42 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

Patches for Office 2010 and 2011 Next Week, None for Windows 7

Customers running Windows 7 will not have to deploy any patches next week, on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, the company revealed. In fact, no security bulletins for Windows will be released on November 9th, 2010, which means that Windows XP and Windows Vista users will also not have to plug any security holes in ...

5 November 2010
07:23 GMT

Win Free Windows Phone 7 and Zune Devices from @Office

A new contest from Microsoft is offering participants a chance at winning a number of Windows Phone 7 and Zune devices. The Redmond company has just announced its “Microsoft Office I Want To Win A Windows Phone 7 Sweepstakes,” a competition with no less than 7 Windows Phone 7 devices offered to just as m...

2 November 2010
10:35 GMT

Windows 7, Office 2010 and Xbox Fuel $16.20 Billion Revenue for Microsoft

Microsoft’s main cash cows as well as the business built around its console and adjacent games have fueled record revenue for the company.On October 28th, the software giant revealed a 25% increase in revenue for the first quarter of the 2011 fiscal year. In the three months ended on September 30, Microsoft&rs...

29 October 2010
05:52 GMT

Free Windows 7 and Office 2010 from the Springboard Series Tour in Europe

The first free copies of Windows 7 and Office 2010 have already been handed out to participants to the initial stop on the Springboard Series Tour in Europe. At the start of this week, the Springboard Series Tour visited Amsterdam, Netherlands, and moved on to today’s event in Stockholm, Sweden. The next two ...

27 October 2010
10:21 GMT

Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta Debuts by the End of 2010

Over half a year after it wrapped up the development process for Office 2010 RTM, Microsoft is ready to move on and start work on the first major upgrade for the productivity suite. According to the Redmond company, the Beta testing program for Office 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is planned for debut by the end of 2010...

27 October 2010
03:29 GMT

6 Million Sold Copies: Office 2010 Is the Fastest-Selling Version of Office in History

It appears that Office 2010 deserves its position of main cash cow for Microsoft along with Windows 7, seeing how 6 million copies of the productivity suite have already been sold.During the Office 365 launch event in San Francisco, Betsy Frost Webb, General Manager, Online Services Management introduced Kurt DelBen...

20 October 2010
10:05 GMT

Office 2010 Beta Expires at the End of October

Users still running the first public development milestone of the latest iteration of the Office productivity suite will need to upgrade by the end of this month. Office 2010 Beta is set to expire on October 31st, 2010, less than two weeks from now, but almost an entire year since the Build was released to early ado...

18 October 2010
09:01 GMT

Windows 7 and Office 2010 50% Off N-2 Discount Extended to the End of 2010

Microsoft is extending a promotional offer which offers the latest versions of Windows and Office to customers at a discount until the end of 2010, provided that they upgrade from an older version of the Windows client or the productivity suite. The 50% Off Up-To-Date (UTD) Discount Extended is available only throug...

15 October 2010
09:55 GMT

Docs.com Grows into First-Class Sharing and Collaboration Hub for Facebook

With the latest update introduced to Facebook’s Office Web Apps, Microsoft’s FUSE Labs introduces a number of features pushing Docs.com into the position of a first-class sharing and collaboration hub for documents on the social network. The refresh follows an update delivered in August 2010, focused on ...

15 October 2010
05:32 GMT

The First Vulnerabilities in Office 2010 RTM and Office Web Apps Patched

Customers running the latest iteration of the Office System will need to deploy security updates from Microsoft in October 2010, just as users still leveraging older releases of the productivity suite. This month’s patch package releases also contain security bulletins designed to plug holes in Office 2010 RTM...

14 October 2010
03:31 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

Free Windows 7 and Office 2010 via the Springboard Series Tour in Europe

Microsoft is ready to offer free copies of Windows 7 RTM and Office 2010 RTM as it’s bringing the Springboard Series Tour to Europe. Users in five European countries will have the chance to learn first-hand what new with Windows 7, Office 2010 and Windows Server 2008 R2 straight from the software giant, but al...

8 October 2010
13:21 GMT

Hilton Adopts Windows 7 and Office 2010 in 3,600 Properties Worldwide

Expect the latest releases of Microsoft technologies to be present at over 3,600 Hilton properties worldwide in the future. The Redmond company announced that it has inked an agreement with Hilton Worldwide, pushing the existing collaboration between the two companies forward. According to the software giant, Hilton...

6 October 2010
10:58 GMT

Free Office 2010 Language Interface Packs Start Rolling Out

As is the case with the Windows operating system, Microsoft is working extensively to make sure customers around the world benefit from using Office 2010 in their native language. In this sense, just as for Windows 7, the Redmond company offers a number of localized versions of the latest productivity suite. However...

13 September 2010
05:44 GMT

Microsoft to Plug 11 Security Holes in Windows, IIS and Office on September 14

Microsoft plans to resolve no less than 11 security vulnerabilities impacting various products including Windows and Office releases, next week, on September 14, 2010. The Redmond company is, as always, providing advance notification of the upcoming patches in order for customers to prepare for the deployment of the...

10 September 2010
05:58 GMT

Microsoft Office 2010 – Romanian Version

Microsoft launched today the Romanian version of Office 2010, which will provide users new and flexible tools facilitating performance, whether it is at home, at school or at work.Being available both online as well as on smartphones, Office 2010 really increases productivity, and it even redefines it, as Valentina I...

7 September 2010
15:14 GMT

Office 2010 Update Center

Now that Microsoft has made Office 2010 RTM available to the public, it falls on customers to make sure that their products are kept up to date. But the Redmond company is making it extremely simple for end users and businesses that embraced the latest iteration of the Office productivity suite to find the Service P...

2 September 2010
06:39 GMT

Extra Horsepower for Office Excel 2010 with Windows for Supercomputers (HPC Server 2008 R2)

For customers overwhelmed by the increase in complexity of the calculations and models associated with Office Excel 2010 in business intelligence (BI) scenarios, Microsoft is recommending integration with high performance machines running the latest iteration of Windows for supercomputers. The Redmond company even m...

31 August 2010
06:02 GMT

Free Office 2010 in the Cloud Evolves with New Features

The free Cloud-based components of Office 2010 have evolved with a range of new features, among which: Word printing, Excel charts and the auto fill handle, PowerPoint clip art and more themes. With the advent of Office 2010, Microsoft stretched its productivity suite from the desktop into the Cloud and unveiled&nbs...

25 August 2010
09:09 GMT

The Sweet Tune of Free Windows 7

Microsoft is gearing up to offer users more free copies of Windows 7 and Office 2010, together with a 16 GB Zune HD Digital Media Player as a part of the Microsoft Windows Blog Recession Sweepstakes. And given how the Redmond company has Windows sponsoring the dB Conference at the Decibel International Festival of El...

23 August 2010
11:27 GMT

Leaked Office 15 / Office 2014 Screenshots and Details

The first leaked screenshots and details of Office 15 / Office 2014 are now available in the wild, at just four months after Office 2010 was released to manufacturing, and just a couple of months since the General Availability deadline. Office 15 is of course the next major iteration of Microsoft’s productivit...

20 August 2010
10:09 GMT

Free Microsoft Resources Enhance Office for Teachers and Students

With 95% of students and 97% of educators worldwide using Microsoft’s productivity suite, the company plays a critical role in education at a global level. In this regard, the software giant is using the back-to-school season as an excuse to release free resources designed to enhance Office for both teachers an...

17 August 2010
10:27 GMT

Download Free Word 2010 Mathematics Add-In

Microsoft has made available an extension for the Word component of the latest iteration of Office, designed to expand the product’s mathematics capabilities. The Microsoft Mathematics Add-In released for Office 2010 users is not limited to Word, as it is also designed to extend OneNote, according to the Redmo...

16 August 2010
06:56 GMT

Office Word 2003 Gets Performance and Stability Boost

Although it has already released Office 2010 and is hard at work on the next major iteration of its productivity suite, Microsoft continues to tend to older releases of the product. Case in point: Update for Microsoft Office Word 2003 (KB979045). According to the Redmond company, the refresh is designed to boost the...

16 August 2010
04:34 GMT

Free Office 2010 in the Cloud (Office Web Apps) Guide

A free resource available for download from Microsoft is designed to provide guidance for the Cloud components of the Office 2010 productivity suite. The Guide for IT Pros for Microsoft Office Web Apps is now live on the Microsoft Download Center, and as the label implies, the guide is tailored to IT professionals. E...

13 August 2010
04:54 GMT

Windows 7 50% Off for Windows XP Users via Off Up-To-Date (UTD) Discounts

Microsoft continues to be offering the latest iteration of Windows at half price to customers still running Windows Vista’s predecessor. At the same time, the same special deal is available to Office customers still leveraging Office 2007’s precursors but that are now looking to upgrade to Office 2010. A...

11 August 2010
10:41 GMT

Download Free Office 2010 RTM Migration Planning Manager

Microsoft has released a new version of the Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) to go along with the latest major iteration of Office, which hit store shelves earlier this year. Microsoft Office Migration Planning Manager 2010 is now up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center, a resource designed to streamli...

9 August 2010
10:42 GMT

Download Free Ribbon/Fluent UI Interactive Guides for Office 2010

Over the past weeks, Microsoft has released a number of resources designed to get customers running older versions of its productivity suite such as Office 2003, become easily familiarized with the evolution of the graphical user interface in office 2010. Softpedia readers have already been able to read about and dow...

5 August 2010
11:03 GMT

Download Free Trials Office 2010 Standalone Components

Concomitantly with the general availability deadline of Office 2010, Microsoft also started offering free copies of the productivity suite for download. Trial versions of Office 2010 RTM continue to be available for download even at this point in time. And the Redmond company is adding even more downloads to the list...

2 August 2010
09:37 GMT

Free Excel 2010 Ribbon/Fluent UI Guide Available

After it released a resource designed to help customers of the latest iteration of its productivity suite get familiarized with Word, Microsoft is releasing a similar guide for Excel. Microsoft Excel 2010: Interactive menu to ribbon guide is now available for download free of charge. The guide is designed to help lon...

2 August 2010
07:46 GMT

Free Office 2010 in the Cloud (Office Web Apps) Overview

With the advent of Office 2010, Microsoft started offering a free Cloud-based extension of the productivity suite containing four components, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office Web Apps are available in two different flavors, illustrative of the Redmond company’s support for customers embracing the Cl...

28 July 2010
12:11 GMT


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