AutoPatcher February 2007
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the Internet.
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21.2.2007 AutoPatcher Vista May 2007
This is a complete list of whats included in the English release of AutoPatcher Vista as of the May 2007 release. This Vista release can be applied in any Windows Vista release, independently of the language and the system (32 or 64 bit).
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14.5.2007 AutoPatcher August 2007
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the Internet.
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21.8.2007 Autopatcher Vista February 2007
Thanks to odeeee for this post in our forum. Autopatcher Vista February 2007 Release - All your Vista updates in one place - Updated monthly.
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11.3.2007 AutoPatcher Vista April 2007
This release is based on the all-new AutoPatcher 5.6. It was made for Windows Vista 32 and x64 and is independent of the language of Windows Vista. Thanks to Matt for this download.
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16.4.2007 AutoPatcher Vista July 2007
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the Internet.
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18.7.2007 Community fights back for AutoPatcher
Microsoft's move this week to close down the AutoPatcher project, a project well known and supported here on Neowin, that allows users to update their computers without requiring an internet connection, has met with cries of outrage from members of the Neowin community, and IT professionals from around the world.
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30.8.2007 Microsoft Killed AutoPatcher – No More Third Party Windows Updates
The AutoPatcher project is dead, courtesy of Microsoft. Antonis Kaladis, AutoPatcher Project Manager broke the news on August 29, revealing that Microsoft killed the initiative designed to supply offline Windows updates.
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29.8.2007 New Vista AutoPatcher - Vista update toolkit Alpha
Vista Update Toolkit Alpha (Windows Vista Updates Downloader) is a FREE program which downloads updates directly from Microsoft. All files are very useful with vLite!
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26.9.2008 Remove and Uninstall Microsoft Office Activation Assistant - Fix Office Must Be Installed Error
On most OEM computers running Microsoft Windows operating system, regardless of it’s a desktop, notebook or laptop PC, now comes with pre-loaded trial version of Microsoft Office 2007, primarily Home and Student Edition, which is a time-limited product for evaluation if use without proper activation.
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17.8.2008 Microsoft confirms Office 12 will be Office 2007
Microsoft announced today the lineup for Microsoft Office Suites 2007.
Alongside the product branding, Microsoft has also revealed pricing for the different versions of Office 2007.
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16.2.2006 Office 2003 and Office 2007 Genuine Patch
And again one article from Steve Jobs’s blog. Well, since a few weeks, most of the known Office 2007 keys do not pass the Genuine test anymore. Most likely you will be able to use it as normal and update your Office 2007, however those downloads which require Genuine Validation won’t pass.
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29.5.2007 Office 12 NOT BRANDED Office 2007
Well I saw Office 12 demo's at IT Forum where the apps were named Office 2007, also as mentioned earlier on Bink.nu, the name change of all office apps now have the name Office in them. So "Microsoft Office Word" and not "Microsoft Word"
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25.1.2006 Office 2007 vs. Office 2008 – Packagings
Office 2008 is the equivalent of the Office 2007 System, but a product designed exclusively for the Mac platform, and the Mac OS X operating system, unlike its alternative for Windows.
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8.10.2007 Should Office Live = Office Lite?
Notes from VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin's dinner with Microsoft corporate vice president of business development Dan'l Lewin: "He (Lewin) didn't seem keen on the idea of OWA-like (Outlook Web Access) versions of Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Some of us let him know that's what we expected him to say but were surprised because it's what people want."
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20.11.2005 Windows Seven and Office 14 Just as Big as Windows Vista and Office 2007
Microsoft has reiterated its commitment to the desktop. Building on its co-founder Bill Gates' vision of a PC on every desk in every home, Microsoft will continue to focus on delivering desktop products. And in this context, nothing will change when it comes down to the development of the company's main cash cows.
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12.7.2007 Next Up: Google Office?
There's a Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. These times must be really interesting for Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft's CEO allegedly said he'd crush Google, his company's rival in search, and the lucrative ad business it engenders. On Tuesday, Google may strike back at Redmond's heart: Microsoft Office.
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Want to try Office Live?
If you're a U.S. Resident, you are now free to signup and give Office Live a shot. The Office Live Team has temporarily removed the waitlist for U.S. Residents. Here's what Matt Rolak says on the Office Live Blog:
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6.4.2006 My Office 12 Review
A few weeks ago the Microsoft Office team worked hard to get Beta 1 out of the door to beta testers via Microsoft Beta. This build was quite successful in all products of Office.
Unfortunately, Microsoft Office ?12? does not come with a new product but the same products that have many changes will keep testers busy until Beta 2! During the Beta phase of Office 2003, Code-named ?Office 11? and referred to as NGO (Next Generation of Office), brought new applications to the table. These applications were InfoPath and OneNote.
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27.11.2005 2 Office products enhanced
Microsoft looks to expand market by adding features
Microsoft Corp. is trying to expand the potential market for two of its Office programs for businesses, increasing its competition with Oracle Corp., SAP, IBM Corp. and others that make corporate software.
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22.1.2006 Critical Office update on the way
Microsoft plans to release a "critical" security update for Office next week, one of three bulletins it will distribute as part of its monthly patch cycle.
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11.9.2006 Office 2007 activation
A lot of people are searching for some solutions, for example "How activate Office 2007?" or "How to crack Office 2007". I will prepare the most searching phrases to discuss.
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7.1.2007 Office 2007 Crack
Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System will be released to the general public on January 29, 2007. However, both Microsoft products have been pirated extensively following their respective release to manufacturing.
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30.4.2007 More Office 2007 Demos
Here are download links to more Office 2007 applications Demos.
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10.5.2007 500 Office Template
This is a Collection of Over 500 Microsoft Office Templates for use with Word, Excel, and Power Point. Thanks to odeeee for this download.
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15.7.2007 Better living without MS Office
Ten years ago to this very week, Apple called a truce in its market share war with Microsoft. After all, the Mac then had a 5 percent market share or so and the company and its OS plans were in disarray.
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11.8.2007 Office 2007 SP2
We’re pleased to announce that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system is expected to be released in the near future. Although we aren’t yet announcing the exact release date, it will fall between February and April of 2009.
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1.4.2009 Office 2010 Updates
Here are some updates if you have been following the the Office 2010 blog. Some rumours about Groove and OneNote confirmed.
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14.5.2008 Office 2010 The Movie
The marketing campaign for Office 2010 hits the streets.
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11.7.2009 Office XP SP3 Info
Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office XP. SP3 contains significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements. This service pack applies to any level of Office XP.
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Microsoft shuts down popular Windows patching package, AutoPatcher
Microsoft Legal defies logic today by
forcibly removing a free and trustworthy
software package which makes updating Windows more convenient and accessible.
AutoPatcher, for those who dont know, was an impressive
Windows community project that combined publically available
Windows hotfixes and security updates each month to form a single package that could either be installed in a batch or burned on to an CD. To those
who regularly format their computers or fix other peoples computers (for which I share you pain), AutoPatcher not only saves bandwidth but precious
time downloading each individual update from
Windows Update.
It is not hard to imagine AutoPatcher violated some clause in some terms of service
somewhere, but why Microsoft would act on it, and act on it now is unbelievable. If AutoPatcher could be as śmaliciousť as Microsoft suggests, then
why havent they acted on it sooner?
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29.08.2007Microsoft Ceases AutoPatcher Project
I had a call from Microsoft Legal this morning and they have told me that we are no longer allowed to endorse AutoPatcher on Neowin.
Microsoft will only allow updates to be downloaded from its own servers.
AutoPatcher started in 2003 and has been redistributed in some
of the worlds best computer magazine cover CD/DVD's. I have no explanation for why Microsoft allowed it to continue unchecked for 4 years before
making this decision.
I asked the representative if Windows Genuine Advantage had anything to do with it and he categorically told me this
was not the case, he added that Windows Update for pre-Vista versions of Windows can now be accessed using Firefox and that the concern at Microsoft
had more to do with the possible malicious code that could be redistributed with certified Microsoft updates.
We have no grounds to
challenge the decision by Microsoft.
I'd like to thank the whole AutoPatcher team for their continued work, unfortunately none of the team
is online, but they have been contacted via the AutoPatcher.com website by Microsoft Legal.
The AutoPatcher forums on Neowin have been
disabled for guests and members.
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29.08.2007AutoPatcher October 2006
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive
collection of patches, addons
and registry tweaks that give
you peace of mind in the
knowledge that your Windows
system is up to date, even
before you connect it to the
Internet. It's designed to
quickly patch a system with
the most current updates and
tweaks available, and requires
no user interaction once you
have selected what to
install.
October
2006 releases available:
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18.10.2006AutoPatcher December 2006
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive
collection of patches, addons
and registry tweaks that give
you peace of mind in the
knowledge that your Windows
system is up to date, even
before you connect it to the
Internet. It's designed to
quickly patch a system with
the most current updates and
tweaks available, and requires
no user interaction once you
have selected what to
install.
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2006 releases available:
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22.12.2006Microsoft Remains Silent on AutoPatcher
Yesterday morning an Internet Investigator representing Microsoft called me at home requesting that Neowin cease all activity with AutoPatcher, a
program headed by Antonis Kaladis and endorsed by Neowin for little under 4 years. Antonis received a standard take down request email through his
AutoPatcher.com email address. We complied by pulling the forums on Neowin and the download page at AutoPatcher.com.
The news was quickly
picked up by the likes of CNET, Slashdot and others but as of this posting we are yet to receive any sort of clear explanation as to why this decision
was made 3 years after the program had been widely adopted by Neowin members, computer magazines and the industries system admins who use the program
to speed up the installing of corporate machines.
A Microsoft Featured Communities representative as well as the Internet Investigator
handling the case has pledged to look into the situation to find out exactly what prompted this sudden move. The only short explanation offered was
the possibility of delivering malicious files with the package, something the AutoPatcher team has never done.
Updates which require WGA
(Windows Genuine Advantage) validation are included, and can be installed (since the WGA validation only takes place on the machine that downloads
them, not the one that is installing them) which theoretically bypasses the validation check users would normally have to go through if updating
through Windows Update. Antonis had asked when WGA became common if this would affect the AutoPatcher project and the concept of administrative
updates and a Microsoft representative said "No", arguing that the purpose behind WGA was mostly educational. The WGA tool itself (the one offered
by Windows Update as a critical update) is included in AutoPacher, though not marked for installation by default.
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30.08.2007Community fights back for AutoPatcher
Microsoft's move this week to close down the AutoPatcher project, a project well known and supported here on Neowin, that allows users to update
their computers without requiring an internet connection, has met with cries of outrage from members of the Neowin community, and IT professionals
from around the world.
Since the initial take-down messages were sent out, and contact was made with both the Neowin administrators, and
the project managers of AutoPatcher, Microsoft have fallen silent on the issue, leaving the community with little explanation about the reasons behind
their action.
As seen by the number of responses the the news articles, and forum topic here on Neowin, and the news item posted on
AutoPatcher's official website, the community is taking this issue very seriously, and are unlikely to let it rest without a full explanation from
Microsoft officials.
In a display of support for AutoPatcher, one fan and Neowin member, M2Ys4U, took it upon himself to make a solitary
protest outside Microsoft's UK HQ building in Reading this afternoon. As he wasn't permitted to enter the campus, he made a stand outside the gates,
displaying his 'Save AutoPatcher' sign for about an hour, before being asked to move on by security.
Whilst Neowin.net does not
officially endorse such a protest, we are pleased that it remained peaceful and nobody had to get hurt.
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31.08.2007'AutoPatcher' Service for Windows Ordered Shut Down by Microsoft
A service designed to help Windows users download Microsoft's updates and install them in a faster manner was ordered shut down by Microsoft, in a
cease and desist letter to the service's proprietors...
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30.08.2007Office 2007 System now available on MSDN
MSDN Subscribers can now get
their hands on Office 2007
Professional, it has just been
made available.
Office Professional 2007
includes the following
Microsoft Office system
programs: Microsoft Office
Access 2007, Microsoft Office
Excel® 2007, Microsoft Office
Outlook® 2007 with Business
Contact Manager, Microsoft
Office PowerPoint® 2007,
Microsoft Office Publisher
2007 and Microsoft Office Word
2007.
Additionally
the following applications
have been added under "Office
2007 Desktop Programs" and
they include: Office Groove
2007, Office InfoPath 2007,
Office OneNote 2007, Office
Project 2007 and Office Visio
2007.
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13.11.2006Microsoft Offers 'Office Live' Storage to Office Users
Twenty months after the company first brought forth its vision of Web-driven applications, Microsoft announced this morning a re-targeting of its
Office Live approach, spinning off "Office Live Workspace" as a free service centered around individuals who already use Microsoft Office...
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01.10.2007Office Live Update 1.3
The Office Live Update 1.3 installs (1) performance updates to make using Office Live Workspace with Microsoft Office programs faster, (2) the latest
Office Live Add-in for Microsoft Office that enables you to access your workspaces directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, (3) the Firefox add-in
to allow users of the Firefox browser to use Office Live Workspace with Microsoft Office.
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06.11.2008Windows Mobile gets Office 2007 format support
Version 6.1 of Office Mobile finally brings support for Microsoft's Open Office XML document formats, over a year after Office 2007 was released to
businesses...
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04.12.2007Office 14 to be named Microsoft Office System 2009?
Microsoft is currently developing the successor to Office 2007, Office codenamed "14". There has been little to no information on the upcoming
Office version and many have speculated we might not see the product until 2010. Microsoft failed to provide any solid information at last years PDC,
choosing to focus on its Office Live offerings. Eagled eyed Microsoft enthusiast and blogger Stephen Chapman has spotted what appears to be an
internal software roadmap from Microsoft. The roadmap reveals a milestone of year end 2009 but the dates aren't very clear: In the roadmap you
can see that Office 14 is clearly identified as Microsoft Office System 2009.
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07.01.2009Office 12 Christened Office
2007
Microsoft is now referring to
the next version of its
desktop office suite,
code-named "Office 12," as
"Office 2007." Microsoft
watcher Steven Bink is
reporting that Microsoft
officials used the Office 2007
name at IT Forum.
He also points to an
Office Online page that uses
the same terminology.
Microsoft officials have held
fast to the company line that
Office 12 will ship towards
the end of calendar 2006. But
one member of the Office
family, Exchange 12, already
is on its way to becoming a
2007 deliverable. Will Office
12 slip into 2007? We'll keep
you posted.
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26.01.2006Update Vista and Office offline
For the first time,
version 4.0 of the heise Security
Offline
Update script archive supports updates for Windows
Vista and Office.
Offline Update provides a simple mechanism for users to install security updates from a CD, DVD or USB stick.
Once the generator
script is launched, all the user needs to do is
select the Microsoft product and the language version of the Microsoft
script they would
like to download. As soon as all the patches are
downloaded onto the disk, the script packs them into burn-ready ISO
images for CDs or
DVDs. The user can then launch an installation script
from the media that quickly installs the updates on the target PC.
Offline Update is supported by a lively
discussion forum.
It is currently the only solution available that provides owners of Windows PCs on a slow internet connection with the latest updates. Until recently,
many users were able to download "update packs" that bundled the Microsoft updates in installation packets from a website operating under the name
of Autopatcher, but the download site was taken down after Microsoft
issued a warning to
the project developers. The zip archive provided by Offline Update, however, does not contain any Microsoft code.
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15.10.2007Microsoft Office Is Right at Home
Q&A: Microsoft Office Live Director of Marketing Michael Schultz explains how consumers can use Office to accomplish more every day...
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08.01.2009Microsoft Delivers Office Live Workspace Beta
Microsoft Office Director of Consumer and Small Business Product Management Kirk Gregersen discusses the public beta of Office Live Workspace, an
online extension to Office that provides new Web storage and collaboration capabilities...
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10.12.2007Office 2007 Gets Visual Studio
Tools
In sync with today's public
release of the Office 2007
Beta 2 Technical Refresh, the
Developer Tools division at
Microsoft has made available
the first public beta of the
second edition of Visual
Studio Tools for Office 2005.
Users will now be able to use
VS2005 to develop managed code
add-ins for Office 2003 and
Office 2007 apps...
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15.09.2006Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Enters Public Beta
Microsoft's first
experimental foray into the
click-to-call field of VoIP -
its Office Communications
Server 2007, due to replace
Office Live Communications
Server 2005 - has been opened
to public beta tests today.
Its aim is to integrate voice
communication with other
Office users as well as with
the server itself, directly
into Office 2007 applications...
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27.03.2007Office 2007 Pricing, Packaging
Detailed
Microsoft overnight announced
packaging and pricing details
for its next-generation Office
System of client and server
products, now officially named
"Office 2007." The
company is largely keeping
prices the same as Office
2003, making minor changes to
the suites it will offer...
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16.02.2006Massachusetts Declares Office Open XML 'Suitable' Format
In what could be Microsoft's
most symbolic victory to date
in the battle to legitimize
the principal formats used by
its Office applications, the
State of Massachusetts
officially declared Office
Open XML -- the new standard
format set in Office 2007 --
"another standardized
XML-based file format
specification suitable for
office applications."..
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