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 Office 2010 Volume License Product Key (VLK) Requires KMS or MAK for Activation
Volume licensing customers for Microsoft Office 2010 suites and applications who install volume editions of Office client software will require activation, even with a volume license key (VLK).
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26.8.2009 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 isn’t
Software licensing is often hard to understand. But that’s 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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3.9.2009 Vista License and Product Key Terminology Part 1
First part of mini serial of articles about Vista Licensing from
Steve Jobs blog.
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4.6.2007 Vista License and Product Key Terminology Part 2
Second part of mini serial of articles about Vista Licensing from
Steve Jobs blog.
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7.6.2007 Vista License and Product Key Terminology Part 3
Next part of mini serial of articles about Vista Licensing from
Steve Jobs blog - Vista Certificate of Authenticity (COA).
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Vista License and Product Key Terminology Part 4
Next article about Vista Licensing from
Steve Jobs blog - this is about Microsoft Product Activation (MPA).
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16.6.2007 Microsoft Releases FastCGI for IIS Under Go Live License
FastCGI will ship in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 as a built-in IIS component for the first time.
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10.10.2007 Microsoft: The Windows OEM License Dies with Its Computer
Licenses for Windows come in various flavors from Retail to Volume, but perhaps the most common of all is provided by original equipment manufacturers together with operating systems preloaded on new computers.
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17.6.2008 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 Microsoft Would Lose Patent Rights Under New Linux License Terms
The final draft of GPLv3 states that companies that distribute open-source software cannot at the same time pursue patent claims against users of that software.
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3.6.2007 Cost of Vista Business License Offset by Savings, Says Microsoft
For a great many large businesses, "the move to the next Windows" has been an ongoing, daily affair for at least well over a decade. And up until recently, the reasons why this migration tends to proceed so slowly have been, to Microsoft, a complete mystery.
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15.6.2007 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 can’t 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 Microsoft issues warning to Volume License customers over Windows Genuine Advantage fail
Phil Liu of Microsoft has reported problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage authentication method for Volume License Key (VLK) customers and a temporary work-around.
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5.10.2006 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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12.7.2007Microsoft 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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28.08.2007Is 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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04.05.2008Office Add-in: Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office (v1.0.1)
This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using the popular applications: 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. Creative Commons supports a number of languages.
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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14.02.2008Creative 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.
winbeta.org - 26.07.2008
Microsoft 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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Microsoft kicks off Office 2010 Technical Preview
Microsoft has begun sending out invitations to the Office 2010 Technical Preview. Microsoft is distributing the Office 2010 bits via its Connect
testing site. The bits hold the build number 14.0.4006.1110 meaning they are older than the recent "beta" leak. Yesterday Microsoft unveiled Office
2010 and Office Web Applications 2010 at the company's annual Worldwide Partner Conference. It's widely expected that Microsoft will offer a
public beta to customers in late August. In an email to potential testers Microsoft noted that on "Microsoft Connect, you will find downloads
available for early, pre-release versions of Microsoft Office 2010 products.
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Office Pro side by side comparison for OEM, Retail, and Volume License. Download yours today.
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19.09.2007Microsoft Launches Office Partner Subsidy Program
Microsoft on Monday announced
a new volume licensing program
for Office that replaces cash
rebates paid directly to
customers with funds for
partner supplied services.
In a
a post
on Microsoft's Small Business
Community blog, Eric Ligman,
senior manager for small
business community engagement
at Microsoft, announced that
customers that buy Office
through the Open Value and
Open License programs will
receive a check from Microsoft
to pay partners for
installation, deployment, and
training services.
Open License is a volume
licensing plan aimed at
organizations with less than
250 PCs. Open Value targets
the same segment, and includes
Software Assurance maintenance
and support. ..
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10.07.2007Public 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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17.01.2006Adobe's plans for iPhone Flash depend on your meaning of 'committed'
Is Flash coming to the iPhone or not? For two consecutive days now, Adobe has said it wants to make that possible. But the way it's handling the
issue has the press parsing every participle for latent meaning...
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21.03.2008A response to Vint Cerf: Enough of the content, already
A recent essay by Google's chief Internet evangelist has BetaNews' Scott Fulton thinking about the meaning behind all this content, and whether the
evolution of the Internet has made its creators forget the need for meaning...
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27.09.2008Review roundup: Moving into a new office suite
Whether you're using a
Macintosh or a Windows
computer, Microsoft Office is
a staple throughout the world.
While that doesn't mean
everybody uses it, it does
mean that almost everybody has
to find something that works
with it. And yet there are
several reasons you might not
want to get a copy of
Microsoft Office itself.
One of those is the price.
Few of us can happily afford
to shell out $400 for the
Standard edition of Office.
Even the educational price of
$150 is pricey, especially if
you're a student trying to
make ends meet.
Perhaps your PC doesn't
have enough resources to
handle Office, which is a
notorious memory hog. Or maybe
you have a second computer
that you or other family
members use only occasionally
for document creation, and you
don't want to shell out for
another Office license.
Whatever the reason, it's
good to know there are
alternatives out there -- all
cheaper than Microsoft's
standard, and a couple that
are even free. We sorted
through nine contenders, some
for Mac and some for PC (and a
couple for both), to find out
the best non-Office office
suites available.
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26.07.2007Dell Software Promo Rankles Microsoft Partners
Dell is quietly selling
Microsoft Open License
software at cost as part of a
three-week promotion that runs
until the end of July, CMP
Channel has learned.
In an email viewed by CMP
Channel, Dell approaches
customers directly and extends
the offer to products such as
SQL, Exchange, Office 2007,
Windows Vista, Windows Server
Standard, Small Business
Server, Client Access
Licenses, Project, and
SharePoint.
However,
Microsoft isn't aware of any
Dell promotions that offer
Open License software at cost,
according to a company
spokesperson.
Dell
did not return emails and
phone calls seeking comment.
Customers typically
buy licenses for Microsoft
software through a volume
license agreement, which can
be an Open License, Select
Agreement, or Enterprise
Agreement. While partners can
buy Open License agreements
from distributors and sell
them to customers, customers
can only buy Select and
Enterprise Agreements only
directly from Microsoft's
large account resellers
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26.07.2007GPLv3 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)
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29.03.2007Microsoft: Streaming Office 'infringes license'
Microsoft has said that the Internet service provider Fasthosts, which has started offering a hosted version of Microsoft Office 2007, is infringing
on the software giant's license regulations.
Earlier this week, the U.K.-based ISP and hosting company started selling an online
version of Microsoft Office, advertised as being "streamed to your PC." However, unlike most hosted software, or
software as a service
(SaaS), it requires users to download software to their client PC.
"Fasthosts' Microsoft Office product uses the SaaS model in
that it is delivered and managed via the Internet," explained Mark Jeffries, Fasthosts' chief technology officer, on Thursday. Speaking with CNET
News.com sister site ZDNet UK via e-mail, Jeffries said that a "full version Microsoft Office, identical to the boxed product, is downloaded using a
streaming service and saved locally on a user's PC."
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09.02.2008Influential OSI member attacks Microsoft over OOXML fiasco
Microsoft has been severely criticised by an influential member of the Open Source Initiative over the way it has pursued ISO certification for the
Office Open XML specification.
Eric S Raymond, a founding member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), labelled Microsoft's
behaviour in pushing Office Open XML (OOXML) for fast track ISO certification as "egregious", and said that he was almost ready to recommend that
Microsoft not receive approval from the OSI for the Microsoft Permissive License.
The OSI are the "stewards of the Open Source
Definition (OSD)", and review and approve licences as OSD compliant. Microsoft on 10 August submitted the Microsoft Permissive License for OSI
approval. The OSD is the most widely accepted set of criteria in the IT industry for classifying software as open source...
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03.09.2007OSI email group gets catty over Microsoft's Permissive License request
The
OSI
License-Discuss mailing
list has been ablaze for
the past few days since
Microsoft submitted its
Permissive
License (MS-PL) to the
OSI
for
official open source license
approval. Jon Rosenberg,
source program director for
Microsoft, posted, "Microsoft
believes that this license
provides unique value to the
open source community by
delivering simplicity,
brevity, and permissive terms
combined with intellectual
property protection."
Rosenberg
compared the MS-PL to the new
BSD license and the Apache 2.0
license. "However, the new
BSD license does not contain
an explicit patent grant," he
wrote. "In addition, we
sought to create a license
that is simple, short, and
easy to understand."
Code licensed
under the MS-PL cannot be
redistributed under the terms
of any other license, but it
can be combined with works
released under the terms of
other licenses, as long as
those other licenses permit
it.
winbeta.org - 19.08.2007
AMD to License Chip
Technologies
In a surprising announcement,
AMD said Friday that it had
plans to allow third parties
to license some of its
processor technologies. The
deal would allow these
companies to produce chips
that would add features to its
own...
betanews.com - 03.06.2006
Office 2007 SP1 Installation/Slipstream Guide
Some of you may be wondering how to do a clean install of Office 2007 using an Office 2007 RTM image along with SP1 at the same time. As you may know,
Office 2007 makes use of the Updates folder in the installation media to install any new updates that it finds in the folder however updates have to
be in the .msp file format for them to be recognized. Since the Office 2007 SP1 update file is delivered in the .exe format, an extra step is required
before being able to proceed:
First, you should copy the contents of the Office 2007 RTM image to a temporary folder. For our
example we're using C:O2007Temp. We have also copied the Office 2007 SP1 Update file (office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe) to the D:
drive.
Then, using the Run command in Windows XP/Vista (WinKey+R), run the following command:
D:office2007sp1-kb936982-fullfile-en-us.exe /extract:C:O2007TempUpdates
replacing D: with wherever you stored
the Office 2007 SP1 update file and C:O2007Temp with wherever you stored the Office 2007 RTM files. After agreeing to the Microsoft Software
License Terms, SP1 will be extracted to C:O2007TempUpdates.
That's it! Just start the setup for Office 2007 and the
updates for SP1 will then be picked up and installed during the setup. The same method applies to any other Office 2007 SP1 update.
winbeta.org - 12.12.2007
Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 leaks
Microsoft is currently working on SP2 for Office 2007 and could be ready to release a final version as early as Q1 2009. Today an early copy has
leaked to BitTorrent according to Windows Vista Magazine. The file weighs in at 287.14 MB and is named office2007sp2-kb953195-fullfile-en-us.exe.
It's not clear whether the leaked copy is a beta, RC or final version of SP2 but the EULA states "012.0_B2TR_PRE.0_BTA_EN" meaning it it's
likely to be a test version. The build number is 12.0.6416.1000, compared to Microsoft Office 2007 SP1 which has the build version of 12.0.6331.5000.
SP2 will support Open Document Format (ODF), XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Portable Document Format (PDF).
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