Microsoft Hands Out $100,000 Office Live Workspace Prize
	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 fo ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 09:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New China Earthquake Virus Spread by Email
	Since the 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China on May 12, hackers, spammers and fraudsters around the world have been attempting to exploit the tragedy in their own unique way: by developing new earthquake-related attacks which could trick vulnerable users an ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 02:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

OpenOffice 3 Beta out and Waiting for Download
	A new beta version of OpenOffice, the famous open source alternative to Microsoft Office, was officially rolled out. OpenOffice 3 Beta 1 comes with several new functions supposed to be included in the final version of the application, scheduled for release in September 2008. Among the new features, one of the most important functions is surely the Mac OS X support which now allows Mac users to install and run the Office suite wit ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 07:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

All Languages Evolved from only One
	The study of the origin of the languages is one of the most complicated disciplines. Since ancient times, people have attempted to explain it via legends like the Tower of Babel and similar stories from the Central American, African and Indian mythologies. Researchers have tried to count how many languages are spoke on Earth: the number varied from 2,000 to 6,000, as incomplete linguistic studies for many areas make difficult ... [read more >>]
	08 April 2008, 10:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Word Users Attacked by Cybercriminals
	Windows is by far the most used operating system in the world, and as a direct result, it is targeted the most by cyberattacks, that take advantage of any flaw they might find. Microsoft is regularly issuing updates that patch the security liabilities, but the software company cannot keep up with the rate at which the holes are being discovered. The latest warning issued by the Redmond-based company regards Microsoft Word, an ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Latest Vulnerability Attacks Steer Clear of Vista SP1, but Not XP SP3
	The latest attacks targeting vulnerabilities in Microsoft's software products have steered clear of Windows Vista Service Pack 1. And despite the fact that the Redmond company touted security advancements when it introduced SP1 for Vista, available as of March 18, the fact of the matter is that neither Windows Vista RTM is impacted by exploits targeting a buffer overrun vulnerability in the Microsoft Jet Database Engine. The security ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 13:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Tops 2007 Word Awards
	The lexica is currently expanding and it’s only natural, with the progress always comes change, no matter which level it is on. Words come out every day and the key to that is, as I see it, the huge numbers of people speaking the respective language that have direct access to new opportunities of approaching a specific domain (I’ll have the beta testers in this category) or those who are faced with experiences never before encoun ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 10:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

And the Webster’s Word of the Year Award Goes to… w00t???
	This has started to get a little bit too much for me to understand. I understand that new words are being invented daily and I understand why, the world is in a process of continuous evolution and so forth. I even understand how the Internet speech has come to be the need to be, or to think you are a step ahead of others in your "coolness". But, how a word like "w00t" (spelled with two zeroes instead of the tradition ... [read more >>]
	12 December 2007, 08:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Books Are Dead! Kindle Dares Sony!
	You really have to check this out. Amazon has just introduced a revolutionary portable reader that allows its users to download media content wirelessly in less than a minute, as well as receive newspapers, magazines and blogs, automatically. The portable device uses a high-resolution paper display that looks and reads just like a real paper, even in bright sunlight, as the makers claim. The best news ever is that more than 90.000 books ... [read more >>]
	20 November 2007, 06:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

From Open XML to DAISY XML via Word
	The Open XML file format, debuted concomitantly with the launch of the office 2007 System, and is currently on its way to becoming an ISO standard, a detail that would position it as a direct alternative to OpenOffice's Open Document Format. In this context, Microsoft announced a new initiative designed to serve visually impaired users with the necessary resources to compensate, at least in part, for their disabilities. The Redmond co ... [read more >>]
	14 November 2007, 06:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10-Year-Old Boy Speaks 11 Languages!
	Most people babble a few words and imagine that a grammatically incorrect and wrongly pronounced enumeration of words means they ‘can speak a foreign language’ such as Spanish or French. And here comes this primary school boy speaking 10 languages besides English. Arpan Sharma, 10, from The Blue Coat School, Edgbaston, Birmingham, is (for the second year) finalist amongst other 30 children in a UK language contest. At hom ... [read more >>]
	06 November 2007, 06:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Word Crashes, Viruses Land
	I guess some of you are sick of just reading "do this, patch that to stay secure" with explanations written in such a techie language that you do not understand a thing. Well, I’m now going to explain nice and simple why it’s important to patch Microsoft products. If you’ve read the recent news or have been simply paying attention to what your computer is prompting you (if you have Windows on it, that is), then you ... [read more >>]
	12 October 2007, 03:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Vulnerabilities, Patches and Exploits – a Natural Security Evolution
	Moving from vulnerabilities to patches and then to the ensuing exploits is a natural order of security evolution for Microsoft products. And the company's monthly patch cycle comes only to confirm this trend. In the aftermath of the security bulletins issued on October 9, 2007, exploits appeared targeting an initially privately reported vulnerability in Word from Office 2000 Service Pack 3, Office XP Service Pack 3 and Microsoft Offic ... [read more >>]
	11 October 2007, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Google Docs & Spreadsheets – It's Your Word Alternative, Too!
	Google Docs & Spreadsheets comes as the best freeware alternative for Microsoft Word and other text processors, being accessible straight from the window of your browser. All you need is a Google account and you're ready to go. Obviously, numerous users turned to Google Docs & Spreadsheets in the detriment of the other technologies available out there but the Mountain View company wants even more. Every once in a whi ... [read more >>]
	29 August 2007, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Do Women Really Talk More Than Men Do?
	The traditional wisdom says that women talk all day long while men, like the real wise a*ses they are, will share a bit of their precious knowledge when the right moment comes... But a new study made on 400 Mexican and American university students, aged 19 to 25, strongly disagrees on this idea, revealing that men and women speak about the same number of words daily: 16,215 words/day/woman compared to 15,669 words/day/man. That's prac ... [read more >>]
	06 July 2007, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Chinese Hackers Make Available Microsoft Exploit Building Tool
	Not a hacker? No problem! Not even technically skilled? Again no problem. “2007 Doc Binder” will do all the work for you! Exploiting vulnerabilities across Microsoft products has never been easier! According to Symantec, the number of samples for Trojan.Mdropper.X is through the roof. Usually, the case is that a malware family numbers something in the vicinity of five different samples. Trojan.Mdropper.X has in excess of 30. All ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2007, 05:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AbiWord Way or The Highway
	Few weeks ago, while surfing the ocean of knowledge (WWW), I found an interesting article on writing. It was said that the first writing system is believed to have been invented both in Sumer (a region in Asia) and Egypt in the late 4th millennium BC. Ever since, improving writing and written form has been a main concern for most civilizations. Around year 1450 a German innovator assembled the first movable type printing. This was a major ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2007, 07:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia