Word 2007 to Feature Built-in Blogging
Joe Friend has posted a rather interesting entry on his site, covering Microsoft's Office 12 Blog feature:
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13.5.2006 Microsoft to License Office 'Look and Feel' for Free
With Office 2007 radically reorganizing the way users think and work with applications -- hopefully more for the better than for the worse.
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25.11.2006 Turn a counterfeit copy of WindowsXP into a free Vista license!
Perhaps you have bought a license of WindowsXP Home, Pro or Media Centerd Edition 2005 from your local dealer and afterwards it turned into a counterfeit while trying to validate it through WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) program.
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29.4.2006 Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5 Free Download With License Serial Key
Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5 is a well-known tweaking and optimizing software for Windows operating system that provides clean, optimize and tune functions to ensure maximum PC performance.
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4.8.2009 Get Free NOD32 License with Valid Username and Password for 90-Days
NOD32 is a popular antivirus software that ranks one of the best and most accurate detection and lowest failure rate.
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19.12.2006 Zonealarm Pro Firewall 2010 with Free License Key Giveaway
Lately we have seen many big software companies having good promotion offer and its best way to grab products for free when we cant afford to buy.
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10.10.2009 FREE 1 Year Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 Genuine License Key for EVERYONE
Few days ago Kaspersky 2009 product was released and I was excited as hell to give out free Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 license key to my subscribers.
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11.6.2008 Vista, Office 2007 Free Gift Offer!
Want to have a free gift in your mail... howbout Windows Vista or Microsoft Office 2007?
WARNING: This may be a scam, Microsoft apparently confirmed it, although the login links point directly to login.live.com. Be careful with this discovery! windows -
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30.11.2006 Microsoft: Free tool for planning Office 2007 Conversions
Microsoft Corp. last week released the final part of a free tool kit designed to help corporate users convert their existing Office files to Office 2007's new Open XML file format.
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27.2.2007 Word for blondes
A word with you, please, Microsoft
If Microsoft's 1976 was all about "hobbyists" and "Altair," then its buzzwords for 2006 were things such as "connected entertainment," "interoperability," "Zune," and "Windows Vista."
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2.1.2007 New Report of A Word Zero Day
We are investigating reports of another new vulnerability in Microsoft Word initial investigation has shown that this is a different issue to that reported in Microsoft Security Advisory 929433.
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11.12.2006 Why is Microsoft afraid to use the L word?
In discussing the motivation behind its newly launched Windows Server 2008 Foudation product, theres one word the folks from Microsoft were loathe to mention: Linux.
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1.4.2009 MS investigates Word zero-day
Microsoft has issued a Security Advisory that warns of exploits for a previously unknown (zero day) hole in various versions of Microsoft Word.
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6.12.2006 Firefox 3.0 goes Alpha but little word yet on IE8
Firefox 2 only launched six weeks ago, but there appear to be no plans for a Firefox 2.5 with the alpha, developer version of Firefox 3.0 just made available on Friday.
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10.12.2006 Microsoft warns of new Word attacks
Microsoft has issued yet another security advisory in the wake of new attacks targeting Word.
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10.7.2008 Experts Warn of Critical Word Vulnerability
Security experts are warning of a critical vulnerability affecting users of Microsoft Word XP and Word 2003.
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22.5.2006 Google Opens Online Word Processor
Google late Thursday re-opened its Writely beta online word processing application, which the search engine acquired in March. Because the service was being transitioned to Google's servers, it was not accepting new accounts until today.
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19.8.2006 Microsoft to release ODF translator for Word
A Microsoft-sponsored open-source project is expected on Friday to release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF.
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3.2.2007 Attackers seize on new zero-day flaw in Word
Just hours after a Microsoft security manager said that the week's updates had patched all in-the-wild threats against Office applications, the company late yesterday acknowledged that another bug in Word is being used by hackers to commandeer computers.
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16.2.2007 Microsoft confirms Windows-Word attacks
Microsoft Corp. yesterday warned of a critical vulnerability that affects users of Word running on Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003 SP1 -- several weeks after one security company first reported an exploit and a day after a second vendor confirmed ongoing attacks.
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24.3.2008 Microsoft permitted to continue Word sales for now
Microsoft Word fans across the world can rejoice and breathe a sigh of relief today as Microsoft has won a temporary stay, allowing Word sales to continue.
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4.9.2009 XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Are in the Clear, Word Is Still Out on Windows 7
While Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista are in the clear, word is still out on Windows 7, when it comes down to antitrust issues.
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13.3.2008 Microsoft Didn't License GNU
Microsoft has revealed that its patent deal with Linspire doesn't cover the new version of the GNU General Public License (GPL), the company's latest effort to distance itself from the GPLv3.
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22.7.2007 New motherboard, new Microsoft Windows license?
Microsoft recently made a change to the licence agreement saying that a new motherboard is equal to a new computer, hence you need to purchase a new Windows licence.
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19.2.2006 Microsoft says: We're a hardware company, license us
NOT MANY people know this, but Microsoft is a hardware company, the firm said today, as it introduced a hardware licensing scheme.
Robbie Bach, head of the devices division at Microsoft said: "We've been a leading hardware innovator and supplier to the desktop peripherals industry for over 20 years."
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29.3.2006 The Vista license "loophole" that isnt
Software licensing is often hard to understand. But thats no excuse for so-called Windows experts to deliberately publish sensational stories that turn the facts upside-down.
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5.4.2008 Microsoft Responds To Vista License Concerns
Amid a rising tide of questions surrounding its end-user license for Windows Vista, Microsoft is attempting to quell concerns that a one-time-only transfer provision could put roadblocks in the way of enthusiasts who repeatedly upgrade their PCs.
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30.10.2006 Microsoft Is Touching Up Windows Vista's License
Microsoft announced that the Windows Vista end-user license agreement will be modified in order to include terms covering Windows Anytime Upgrade. The new Windows Vista EULA will be
made available tomorrow, and I will provide you with an update on the matter.
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18.3.2007 Windows 7 Volume License and Trial Availability
Last month we made Windows 7 available to customers with Software Assurance and to MSDN and TechNet Subscribers. Today I am happy to announce two more ways for businesses to get Windows 7 for their deployment and evaluation.
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3.9.200912 Time-Saving Tips for Microsoft Word
Samuel Dean: Despite the availability of many excellent,
free word processors many of us still spend most of our writing time in Microsoft Word. It tends to be the most compatible tool
you can choose to exchange documents with others, and lots of people are even forced to use it by dictatorial IT departments. In this post, Ill round
up some good tips that can make you more productive and save you lots of time in Word.
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23.02.2008Wikimedia Foundation Requests The Free Software Foundation Modify GFDL
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has resolved to formally request the Free Software Software Foundation (FSF) modify the GNU Free
Documentation License (GFDL) so that mass collaborative projects such as Wikipedia can use and license existing GFDL content under the Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) license.
We are grateful for the wonderful work the Free Software Foundation and
Creative Commons have done thus far. Without their support and wisdom, Wikipedia would not be where it is today. As the worlds largest repository of
free content, this step enables Wikipedia and its sister projects to become more compatible with other free culture projects, said Jimmy Wales,
Wikipedia Founder.
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09.12.2007Microsoft offers free software to Louisiana SMBs
Microsoft is working with state officials in Louisiana to offer Windows and Office software free for a year to small businesses still feeling the
effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new program, called the Software License Relief Program,
in conjunction with the 2007 Hope & Recovery Summit, which is commemorating the second anniversary of both storms. Microsoft is working with the
Louisiana Small Business Development Center (LSBDC) to offer the program, which will launch next month and gives eligible small businesses access to
software from Microsoft, including Windows and Office, free of charge for a year.
The program doesn't come without a catch,
however -- there are eligibility requirements for businesses, one of which is to purchase a three-year Microsoft Open Value License that spreads out
software license payments over three years. Open Value bundles core software offerings from Microsoft into one license. After purchasing the software,
businesses can bring the first year's invoice to any LSBDC, and Microsoft will pay the bill. The businesses themselves are responsible for the last
two years of the license.
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28.08.2007Public Debate Begins on GPLv3
Public debate on the third
revision of the General Public
License began on Monday as the
Free Software Foundation
released the first draft of
the popular open source
license. The new version of
the license focuses on patents
and digital rights management
issues...
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17.01.2006Microsoft to License Office 'Look and Feel' for Free
With Office 2007 radically
reorganizing the way users
think and work with
applications, today, Microsoft
announced a royalty-free
licensing program for
developers who want to make
use of Office's new,
distinctive style. If you're
wondering whether there are
strings attached...wonder no
more...
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22.11.2006GPLv3 Draft 3 Appears to Excuse Microsoft-Novell Deal
New language inserted into the
third discussion draft of
version 3 of the General
Public License for free and
open-source software would
prohibit a license holder from
paying another party to
receive a patent license for
works the GPL covers. But a
bracketed clause would make
this language take effect for
licenses issued from
today (March 28)
forward...
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29.03.2007New open-source license
targets DRM, Hollywood
The new version of the most
widely used open-source
license takes a "highly
aggressive" stance against
the digital rights management
software that's widely
favored in the entertainment
industry, said Eben Moglen,
general counsel for the Free
Software
Foundation.
At
a two-day event here to launch
the General Public License
version 3, which governs use
of countless free and
open-source programs, Moglen
said the license includes
anti-DRM provisions that could
put it in conflict with movie
studios and even digital video
recorder maker
TiVo.
On Monday,
the Free Software Foundation
published a draft of the GPL
version 3, which is expected
to be completed in about a
year. The draft states that
GPL software cannot use
"digital restrictions" on
copyright material unless
users can control
them.
Moglen said
that DRM technology, which
places limits on how consumers
can play movies, music or
other digital content, is
"fundamentally incompatible"
with the principles of the
Free Software Foundation.
Moglen and Free Software
Foundation founder Richard
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19.01.2006Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007
This Technology Preview release of the Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 provides authors of scientific articles with the ability to
read and write files from Word 2007 into the XML format used by the National Library of Medicine for archiving articles in the U.S. National
Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, PubMed Central.
This
Technology Preview release is targeted at the staff of scientific and technical journals, Information Repositories, and early adopters within the
scholarly authoring community, as well as developers of publishing solutions and workflows.
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20.03.2008Free Software Foundation releases GPL version 3
The Free Software Foundation
(FSF) today released version 3
of the GNU General Public
License (GNU GPL), the
world's most popular free
software license.
Since we founded the free
software movement, over 23
years ago, the free software
community has developed
thousands of useful programs
that respect the user's
freedom. The programs are in
the GNU/Linux operating
system, as well as personal
computers, telephones,
Internet servers, and more.
Most of these programs use the
GNU GPL to guarantee every
user the freedom to run,
study, adapt, improve, and
redistribute the program,
said Richard Stallman, founder
and president of the FSF.
Version 3 of the GNU GPL
strengthens this guarantee, by
ensuring that users can modify
the free software on their
personal and household
devices, and granting patent
licenses to every user. It
also extends compatibility
with other free software
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30.06.2007Is it OK to install Office on multiple PCs?
Ed Bott: In the comments to
an earlier post,
TJ asks a question that I get frequently:
my sister got
office ultimate 2007 and was wondering if i can install it on 2 computer?
The short answer is yes, but the longer
answer is probably not in the way you think. The license for all versions of Office 2007 except Home and Student edition are very clear. (To view your
license, open any Ribbon-based Office program, click the Office button, click Word Options, select the Resources tab, and click About
. For Outlook, click Help, About Microsoft Outlook. In the About dialog box, you’ll see a View the Microsoft Software
License terms link.)
For any retail edition of Office 2007, the details are in sections 1 and 2...
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04.05.2008Microsoft files emergency motion in Word vs i4i case
On Friday afternoon, Microsoft filed an emergency motion with the US District Court for Eastern Texas in a desperate try to block a ruling that could
force it to stop selling its flagship word processing software, Microsoft Word in 60 days. i4i successfully sued Microsoft in 2007 for infringing on
it's patent for "custom XML", a product that is integrated into many of Microsoft's products, including Word 2007 and 2003, .NET and Windows
Vista.
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18.08.2009Review process for GPL Version
3 to begin in January
The next version of the
popular open-source software
license is due out in
2007
Af
ter several years of work, the
first draft of proposed
revisions to the open-source
software GNU General Public
License (GPL) is set to be
introduced in January at a
conference at
MIT.
In an
http://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3l
aunch]announcement yesterday,
Free Software Foundation Inc.
(FSF) and the Software Freedom
Law Center (SFLC) said the
review process for Version 3
of the GPL will continue
through 2006 with a final
license due out in the spring
of 2007.
Peter
Brown, executive director of
the nonprofit FSF, said the
revision process for the GPL
has been under way since 1991,
when the second version of the
license was introduced.
"We've really been building
Version 3 for these past 15
years," Brown said. "It's
really never
stopped."
Changes
in the GPL -- the most popular
open-source software license
used by developers -- are
unlikely to include massive
reworking to its core legal
framework, Brown said.
Instead, the revisions are
expected to address provisions
in the existing GPLv2 that are
no longer needed. That would
include wording changes
related to how software is
distributed under the GPL now
that the Internet is a huge
part of the distribution
process. In the existing GPL,
software distribution is
described in physical terms
using disks, rather than via
download, he said...
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01.12.2005Benchmarking Microsoft Word From 95 To 2007
Andrew Ziem takes a close look at
Microsoft Word performance in a
benchmark with 4500 measurements in 5 categories covering 6 versions and 12 years of releases to determine whether Word has become slower or
faster over the years.
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23.07.2008Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office 2007
This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint,
or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others.
The add-in downloads the Creative Commons license you designate from the Creative Commons Web site and inserts it directly into your
creative work.
To learn more about Creative Commons, please visit its web site,
www.creativecommons.org. To learn more about
the choices among the Creative Commons licenses, see http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses.
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Microsoft permitted to continue Word sales for now
Microsoft Word fans across the world can rejoice and breathe a sigh of relief today as Microsoft has won a temporary stay, allowing Word sales to
continue. In August 2009, a judge ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, its flagship word processing software and one of the main components of the
Microsoft Office System. i4i sued Microsoft in March 2007 claiming that Microsoft violated its 1998 patent (No. 5,787,449) for a document system that
"eliminated the need for manually embedded formatting codes." I4i Chairman Loudon Owen said last month that he would like to see a version of Word
come out without the technology in question.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 04.09.2009
Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word
On Tuesday, a judge ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, its flagship word processing software and one of the main components of the Microsoft
Office System - namely part of Word 2003 and Word 2007. This also now extends to Word 2010 which contains the same feature set. Judge Leonard Davis
of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the
United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML," according
to a statement released by attorneys for the plantiff, i4i, CNET reports. Microsoft stated that it planned to appeal the verdict.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 12.08.2009
I.B.M. to Offer Office Software Free in Challenge to Microsofts Line
I.B.M. plans to mount its most ambitious challenge in years to Microsofts dominance of personal computer software, by offering free programs for word
processing, spreadsheets and presentations.
The company is announcing the desktop software, called I.B.M. Lotus Symphony, at an
event today in New York. The programs will be available as free downloads from the I.B.M. Web site.
I.B.M.s Lotus-branded
proprietary programs already compete with Microsoft products for e-mail, messaging and work group collaboration. But the Symphony software is a free
alternative to Microsofts mainstay Office programs Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The Office business is huge and lucrative for Microsoft, second only
to its Windows operating system as a profit maker.
winbeta.org - 18.09.2007
Will free office suites supplant Microsoft as the industry leader?
Quite a bit of talk has arisen today over two of Microsoft's competitors (Google and IBM) offering free office suites in an attempt to supplant
Microsoft as the office king. And now that this is happened, some are wondering if Microsoft will finally face reality and offer its own Office
product for free so it can compete.
The possibility of having Word, Excel, Powerpoint and the rest for free sure sounds awfully
nice, but if you think Microsoft would give it up for free, you're dreaming.
As NPD announced just last week, Office 2007 is
performing extremely well. According to the research firm, Office 2007 on Windows is selling at roughly double the rate of Office 2003. Will two free
solutions alter the unprecedented sales figures Microsoft is currently enjoying? Not a chance.
As someone who has used both
Google's Office Suite and another free product, OpenOffice, I can say that neither of those programs can possibly stack up to Windows Office. Believe
me, I wish I could say that both do, but the sad truth is they don't.
winbeta.org - 19.09.2007
Microsoft Makes .NET Framework Source Code Visible Under License
As part of an effort to make debugging code at the granular level more feasible with its new Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft today said it will be
making the source code for its .NET Framework available under its royalty-free, "read-only" Reference License...
betanews.com - 04.10.2007
Mac Office, Office 2007 now get along
Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/d
ownloads.aspx?pid=download&loc
ation=/mac/download/Office2004
/ConverterBeta.xml&secid=4&ssi
d=34&flgnosysreq=True>unveiled
a stopgap file converter on
Wednesday that allows Mac
Office users to work with
Office 2007 Word document
files.
The
beta application only converts
.docx files -- documents saved
in Word 2007's new native
Open XML format -- into .rtf
(Rich Text Format) documents,
a format that can be opened by
Word 2004 or Word v.X for Mac
OS X. It supports only one-way
conversion.
"We do
not want to see you
inadvertently mess up any
critical documents you are
working with," Geoff Price,
of Microsoft's Mac Business
Unit, said in a posting to the
Mac Office blog. "When
sending documents back to
colleagues and contacts, we
recommend saving to the
default .doc format from Mac
Word." ..
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