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 Microsoft employees feel maligned
Microsofties allege that Redmond's performance review system is rigged.
Google employees get free food, unlimited foosball, and laundry machines at the office. Microsoft employees, by contrast, say that they get a politically charged job review process that has turned into a popularity contest, WashTech.org reports. A supposedly meritocratic system under which employees get ranked on a bell curve has been taken over by managers who try to protect their friends, Microsoft workers told the Seattle-based labor news site. A Microsoft spokesman says a top HR executive is actively reconsidering the system.
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11.3.2006 Users feel pain after latest Microsoft patch
Microsoft's latest security patch is causing issues for users of several HP products including cameras, scanners and printers.
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18.4.2006 Major Update Coming to Vista SP1 and XP SP3, but Users Won't Feel a Thing
A major update is coming to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, but Microsoft guarantees that end users won't feel a thing.
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6.7.2008 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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EXCLUSIVE: New Office 12 invite!
After the closure of the PDC invite, Microsoft has provided another Office 12 beta testing invite!
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Want to be an Office 12 Beta Tester?
Want to be an Office 12 Beta Tester? Visit the following source to sign up today!
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Microsoft: No Office Software for Linux
Future of open-source software debated at LinuxWorld conference.
Microsoft will not release a version of its Office suite software for open-source rival Linux, though the company is actively studying how Linux works and how it can integrate with the platform, a Microsoft representative says.
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Microsoft to Standardize Office Format
Microsoft intends to submit Office file formats to the European standards body ECMA International, a move the company hopes will allay concerns over the company's level of control over document formats.
The company, which dominates the market for desktop productivity software, plans to hand over the technical specifications of Office 12 file formats to ECMA early next month.
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22.11.2005 Microsoft Office Gets Some Real Competition
Despite all of the hullabaloo around OpenOffice as of late, Microsoft's real competition (as modest as it is) on the Windows-based office-suite front comes from Corel.
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18.1.2006New Visual C++ refresh has tools for Office, IE 'look and feel'
If you're an MFC developer for Windows, your applications won't have to look like they were made for Windows 95 anymore. The final edition of the
latest VC++ Feature Pack enables you to replace your toolbars with the Office ribbon...
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12.08.2008Microsoft 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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22.11.2006Microsoft considers Office pre-pay vouchers
Microsoft is exploring new
ways to try and convert the
remaining people who don't
use its Office productivity
suite, which includes Word,
Excel and PowerPoint.
Microsoft isn't quite
ready to talk about plans for
an ad-supported or online
version of its Office
franchise. But the company
clearly is thinking about it.
"We've put more of
our marketing IQ beyond
alternative business models
and alternative distribution
strategies in the last two
years," corporate vice
president Chris Capossela said
in an interview at
Microsoft's Worldwide Partner
Conference in the US this
week.
"It's
definitely something where we
feel there is this whole
population of people we are
not reaching."..
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12.07.2007Microsoft's Matusow and Mahugh on Office's move to open format support
"We feel we are achieving parity in how Office treats the format, by making them all part of just one simple list of formats supported by Office,"
said Microsoft Office Product Manager Doug Mahugh, in an interview with BetaNews.
For the history of applications up until now,
the specification of the format used to encode documents was defined largely and almost inescapably by the functionality of the programs which utilize
them. A format represented what an application was designed to do, and that format changed when the application changed.
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22.05.2008ZoooS Previews "OpenOffice.org 3.0 in a Browser"
ZoooS LLC today previewed ZoooS Office, a web-based office suite that puts OpenOffice.org 3.0 in a browser, targeting enterprise, SMB, and individual
users alike with a blend of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and desktop advantages.
ZoooS revealed its suite at this week's Office
2.0 Conference 2008 Launchpad event, demonstrating that ZoooS Office offers the anywhere, any device access, collaboration, and zero-maintenance
benefits of SaaS combined with the security, offline support, look and feel, and application performance of a desktop suite. The Office 2.0 Conference
runs September 3-5, at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco.
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03.09.2008Office 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
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13.11.2006MS: How we really designed the look and feel of Windows 7
Brandon LeBlanc: An inaccurate quote has been
floating around the
Internet today about the design origins of Windows 7 and whether its look and feel was "borrowed" from Mac OS X. Unfortunately this came from
a Microsoft employee who was not involved in any aspect of designing Windows 7. I hate to say this about one of our own, but his comments were
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12.11.2009Partners Fix Up Office 2007 and Windows Vista
Microsoft's flagship products feature new user interface elements so innovative that other developers have introduced products to undo the
changes.
On Friday, Addintools, based in Hai-nan, China released
Classic Menu for Office 2007, after more than six months of
beta testing. The user interface enhancement does
what Office
2007 can't: Revert to the Office 2003 look and feel.
What a marketing pitch: "Frustrated by endless searches for features
on the Ribbon?" Oh, yeah. There are loads of people that don't like change, and Office 2007 offers plenty of it. So that sales pitch has some
appeal.
Some colleagues and I were discussing the Addintools product, and one rightly asked: Why upgrade to Office 2007 only to
use the Office 2003 UI? That's a very good question. There are some businesses that would need Office 2007 because of dependencies with other 2007,
such as the SharePoint Portal Server. But that doesn't mean they would want the training and support hassle of the newer UI. Many people don't like
change. For IT managers, change often means trouble, as employees resist or struggle to change.
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28.08.2007Microsoft's Bing Maps updated
Microsoft have updated and optimised Bing Maps with a set of new features and an improved look and feel. Chris Pendleton, Bing Maps Technical
Evangelist, confirmed the changes in a company blog post yesterday. "If you visited Bing Maps today you may have noticed a new look and feel. Well,
that's because it has a new look and feel" noted Pendleton. The full list of changes are listed below:Draggable Routes - Generate a router and
drag the route to change directionsZoom Bar - Jump to specific zoom levels within predefined settingsCommand Parsing - Intelligent searching, for
example want traffic info?
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11.11.2009Microsoft 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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06.11.2008Office 2003 SP3: Are new formats more secure?
Blocking old file formats in the Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) release was meant to bolster security for Microsoft customers, but whether the new
formats are any more secure than older ones is debatable.
Few within IT feel compelled to side with Microsoft when debates over
file formats, backward compatibility and security emerge, yet the Redmond software giant's decision to block a swathe of old formats such as pre-97
PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Corel Draw formats has been met with sympathy from analysts.
Microsoft said it was attempting to
address security concerns by blocking the older file formats. "By default, these file types are blocked because the parsing code that Office 2003
uses to open and save the file types is less secure. Therefore, opening and saving these file types may pose a risk to you," it said in its advisory.
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08.01.2008Windows 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
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04.12.2007Vista, Office 2007 To Launch in NY After Thanksgiving
The long-touted Microsoft
Vista/Office 2007 tandem
launch is on for the last week
in November in New York,
sources said. This event will
focus on business usage and
scenarios. The new client
Windows operating system and
Office client and server
applications have been
promised for volume business
customers by year's end and
for consumers by early 2007.
Jeff Raikes,
president of the Microsoft
Business Division, would not
comment on a specific launch
timing or venue but said the
company remains on track for
the two promised delivery
windows. He applied the usual
caveat: Microsoft will not
ship the code if it's not
ready. "I talked to Antoine
Leblond and Kurt
last week and they feel very
good about the track they're
on and I know Jim Allchin and
the Vista team feel the same
way. There's no new news,"
Raikes told CRN in a meeting
at its New York City offices
Tuesday.
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Office 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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Office:mac 2008; An Early Look
A few of our members have been able to get their hands on a copy of Office:mac 2008 a little early and have provided us with some screenshots and
opinions about Microsoft's latest version of their productivity software for the Mac platform.
Users migrating from Office 2007
on their PC will feel right at home with Office:mac 2008, or, almost anyways. Microsoft decided to take a similar approach to the popular "Ribbon"
interface introduced in Office 2007, by introducing a new interface dubbed "Elements Gallery" in Office 2008. The new interface features commonly
used tools at the top of the window and expandable menus containing additional tools and templates, which are sectioned using tabs, directly
underneath.
But hey, why not see for your self? - Take a look here.
Office:mac 2008 is expected to ship January 15th, 2008.
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Office 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.
jcxp.net - 26.01.2006
Google Testing Web 'Page
Creator' Beta
As Microsoft waves goodbye to
FrontPage in Office 2007,
Google seems to be picking up
the slack and is beta testing
a new Web-based HTML editor
dubbed "Page Creator."
Google's service utilizes
AJAX to give it the feel of a
desktop application, but at
the moment the tool's
functionality remains limited...
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Microsoft 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...
microsoft.com/presspass - 08.01.2009
Microsoft 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...
microsoft.com/presspass - 10.12.2007
