Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 Evaluation
The Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 is not a stand alone product; it requires the developer to have Windows® Embedded Studio tool suite installed.
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31.10.2006 Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 CTP 2 Released
Improved overall test coverage and quality of the feature pack while incorporating bug fixes and enhancements based on feedback from the first CTP participants.
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11.10.2006 Excel vulnerable to new attack
With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software.
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5.2.2007 Any Video Converter Free 2.07
Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format!
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1.8.2007 Unofficial Microsoft Points (Xbox Live) Converter
Check out how much that new theme, picture pack or Horse Armour really costs!
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8.7.2006 Microsoft delivers 11 patches, 6 critical; Excel flaw left unpatched
Microsoft delivered 11 patches on Tuesday addressing 17 vulnerabilities. Six updates fix critical flaws and five address important vulnerabilities, but an already exploited Excel zero day was left unpatched.
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12.2.2008 Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any business and the needs of all the different groups with a stake in the messaging system.
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25.8.2009 Office 2007 Service Pack 2 More Secure than SP1
In order to support applauding the security enhancements in Windows Vista, Microsoft has played the vulnerability counting game on more than one occasion, comparing the volume of security flaws in the latest edition of the Windows client with previous releases, and even with Linux and Mac OS X.
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27.11.2008 Microsoft Office family 2007 Service Pack 1 download NOW
Service Pack 1 provides the latest updates to the 2007 Microsoft Office suite.
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13.12.2007 Download Office 2007 Service Pack 2 - SP2 RTM
It's time for the next stage in the evolution of the Office 2007 System. Microsoft will release Office 2007 Service Pack 2 today, April 28, 2009.
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28.4.2009 Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 available in Q3 2009
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is the industry's leading server for e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging.
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12.5.2009 Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
The Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack is built on the Windows Diagnostics Infrastructure in Windows Vista that detects, diagnoses and tries to resolve hardware and software problems.
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12.5.2007 Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Release to Web Tuesday 11th Dec
Next Tuesday, December 11th 2007, the Office System team here at Microsoft expects to announce the availability for download of the 2007 Microsoft® Office System Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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5.12.2007 DOWNLOAD Windows XP Unofficial Pack - Formally SP3 Preview Pack
The Hotfix today announces the release of our Windows XP Unofficial TheHotfix.net Pack, a collection of hotfixes that may or may not go into the upcoming Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. This collection is of hotfixes not officially released to the public from Microsoft. The package, formally known at the Windows XP SP3 Preview Pack, contains hundreds of fixes that you would normally need to call Microsoft Support to obtain.
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Windows Vista, Office 2007, Exchange 2007 Business Launch
While it's not the retail launch date, today is the official business launch for the next generation of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows Vista.
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1.12.2006 Outlook 2007 users angry over Office 2007 HTML-e-mail changes
A quiet change Microsoft has made in the rendering engine used by Outlook 2007 is beginning to sink in among individuals who have gotten accustomed to having the Internet Explorer (IE) engine render HTML e-mail messages. And the reaction of many is one of anger and disbelief.
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13.1.2007 Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 Launched in The Netherlands
Today Microsoft launched Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 for Volume license businesses in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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29.11.2006 Microsoft Office 2007 to be released in 2007
Following on from the recent Windows Vista delays Microsoft has stated that it expects Microsoft Office 2007 to be available to businesses at year-end and OEM/Retail in early 2007.
Microsoft has a habbit of releasing products in one year but naming them a year ahead to keep them sounding up to date in the market.
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25.3.2006 Vista Transformation Pack 3
Another Christmas, another New Year, another Vista Transformation Pack - good things seem to come in threes, and the latest version of everyone's favourite Windows tweaking and skinning pack is no exception.
Released in the last throes of 2005, as the best present your ragged-looking Windows could ever want for 2006, the Vista Transformation Pack 3 is an all-in-one solution for first-time interface tweakers and modders on the go.
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18.1.2006 Vista Transformation Pack 5.5
At last, Vista Transformation Pack has finally come out! Despite the name Vista, you'll get whole new update and more functions. Get the awesome Vista look today!
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14.10.2006 Vista Transformation Pack 6
Along with Christmas comes a new release of Windows X's famous Vista Transformation Pack. Version 6 has been in release candidate for quite some time, and Windows X has met his deadline of Christmas.
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25.12.2006 Vista Pack for XP
The Vista Pack for XP is for customize your Windows XP in Windows Vista Style. It give your Windows XP the look and feel of Vista with these great tools with a new Firefox Vista black theme, Windows Visual styles, tools, and wallpapers.
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22.2.2007 Vista Transformation Pack 7.0
This program will transform your Windows user interface to ultimate Windows Vista alike looks that everyone will never notice it’s the same old Windows XP (or 2003).
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26.6.2007 Windows XP Service pack 1
Windows XP Service Pack 1: XP SP1 (now called SP1a)
Microsoft continually works to improve its software. As part of this effort, we develop updates and fixes to recognized issues and release them for customers. On a regular basis, we combine many of these fixes into a single package and make the package available for you to install on your computers. These packages are called Service Packs.
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Windows XP Service pack 2
About once a year, Microsoft releases an update to Windows XP. These updates contain all the fixes and enhancements which have been made available in the previous year. The updates (called Service Packs) provide convenient, all-in-one access to the most up-to-date drivers, tools, security updates, patches, and customer-requested product changes.
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Windows XP Service pack 3
This is Windows XP SP3 - Service Pack 3 Unofficial Preview.
Mr. Ballmer made some interesting remarks: Microsoft might indeed ship SP3 for Windows XP before Longhorn comes out. Also, upcoming version 7 of Internet Explorer should have anti-phishing technology built-in.
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Windows Server2003 Service Pack 1
On this page you'll find information for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Windows Server 2003 SP1 provides enhanced security, increased reliability, and simplified administration to help enterprise customers across all industries.
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.NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 2
The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP2 Redistributable includes everything you need to run .NET Compact Framework applications, including the Common Language Runtime and the .NET Compact Framework class library.
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Vista Transformation Pack 4.0 download
Today, a new version of the well known Vista Transformation Pack was released. Version 4.0 features many exciting updates, and UI tweaks since version 3.0.
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20.5.2006 Vista Transformation Pack 6 RC1
Windows X has released version 6 of his Vista Transformation Pack. The version is still a release candidate and may contain bugs, only use it if you're comfortable with using such software.
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25.11.2006VBA and Office 14
There's been some discussion on this
thread on Slashdot, (
updated) which started
from this article in The Register UK.
To be clear,
Microsoft is not replacing VBA with VSTA or VSTO in Office for Windows . (though VSTA and VSTO are still important developer tools for
Office 14)
VBA is here to stay, as was announced some time back by Steven Sinofsky.
The
Excel and
Access Blogs both have posts covering this from the
Office perspective.
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19.01.20082007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack
This download will install and register IFilters with the Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the
contents of specific document formats. This Filter Pack includes IFilters for the following formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb,
.zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx.
Because Windows Desktop Search (WDS) consumes IFilters from Windows
Indexing Service, the IFilters will be automatically registered and available for use by WDS.
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19.12.2007Excel Calculation Issue Update (Fix Available)
Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today, fixes for this issue in Excel
2007 and Excel Services 2007 are available for download from the following locations:
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adding this fix to Microsoft Update so that it will get automatically pushed to users running Excel 2007 or Excel Services 2007. Additionally, the
fix will also be contained in the first service pack of Office 2007 when it is released (the release date for SP1 of Office 2007 has not been
finalized).
Thank you for your patience,
The Excel Team
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10.10.2007Microsoft Fixes Excel Calculation Bug
Microsoft says it has fixed a much publicized Excel 2007 bug which caused the spreadsheet program to display erroneous calculation results. The Excel
team explained the issue this way: of the countless different floating point numbers Excel 2007 can store, there are six floating numbers using binary
representation that cause the problem. Apparently for calculations that amount to around 65,535, Excel 2007 would return a value of 100,000 instead of
65,535. Thus, for instance, if you multiplied 850 by 77.1, the program would display 100,000 instead of 65,535, but if you consequently multiplied the
result by 2, you would get 131,070, the correct answer. The issue, according to the Excel staff, was introduced when Microsofts development team made
changes to the Excel calculation logic in Office 2007.
However, all of that is now in the past: in an Oct. 9 posting on the Excel section
of MSDN
the Excel Team served notice that, " as of today, fixes for this issue in Excel 2007 and Excel Services
2007 are available for download. " The team has also added the fix to Microsoft Update, " so that it will get automatically pushed to
users running Excel 2007 or Excel Services 2008. " The fix will be included in the first service pack of Office 2007 when its released, though
that date has not yet been finalized.
neowin.net - 12.10.2007
Using Conditional Cell Formatting in Excel 2007
If you are working on a spreadsheet and want to be able to quickly see differences in numbers at a glance, you should use the new Conditional Cell
Formatting in Excel 2007. With this you can change the background of a cell based on the data in the cell, almost like an inline chart.
winbeta.org - 19.08.2008
Digital TV Converter Box Rebate Announced
The Commerce Department
approved a plan Monday that
would allow every U.S.
household to be eligible for
two $40 coupons that could be
used towards the purchase of a
digital-to-along converter box
beginning in January 2008...
betanews.com - 13.03.2007
Better late than never: Open XML converter comes to Mac
Almost two years after it was originally promised, Microsoft has finally delivered the Open XML converter plug-in for Mac OS X...
betanews.com - 26.06.2008
Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2.1 (Beta)
With the Open XML Converter, you can convert Open XML files to a format that is compatible with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Office v.
X for Mac. You can choose to convert and open one file, or convert a large number of files.
This version of the converter can
convert the following Open XML file formats:
- Word Document (*.docx)
- Word Macro-Enabled Document (*.docm)
- PowerPoint Presentation (*.pptx)
- PowerPoint Show (*.ppsx)
- PowerPoint Template (*.potx)
The converter is a
Beta release, and might be unable to convert all the data in Open XML files. After you convert a file, you should review the file carefully to make
sure that it contains all of the information that you expect. For a complete list of known issues, install and open the converter, and then on the
Help menu, click Office Converter Help.
This Beta release expires on December 31, 2008.
winbeta.org - 19.12.2007
Building the Excel Media Player “ Part 2
Joseph Chirilov: Last post we talked about how to use Excel
as a flexible development environment and touched on the benefits of using Office graphics to build your UI. This post goes into how to use ActiveX
controls in Excel and how to contain and manipulate data in tables to drive your application.
winbeta.org - 17.04.2008
Symantec Finds Yet Another Excel Trojan Variant
It may be a single malicious
user with an axe to grind, and
that user may be targeting a
very small group of people who
just happen to use Microsoft
Excel. But whoever it is
continues to make security
firms like Symantec nervous,
as yet another Excel-based
document with a malformed
image string, dubbed
Trojan.Mdropper.Y , has
turned up...
betanews.com - 09.02.2007
VMware Releases New Converter Tool
VMware on Monday released a
beta version of VMware
Converter 3, a tool that takes
a physical computer system and
transforms it into a virtual
machine image to be used with
the company's products. The
new release combines two
previously separate tools:
VMware P2V Assistant and
Virtual Machine Importer...
betanews.com - 02.10.2006
Microsoft to support Chinese document standard
The company on Monday
is expected to announce that
it is sponsoring an
open-source project to create
a converter between Ecma Open
XML--a set of file formats
closely tied to Microsoft
Office--and a Chinese national
standard called Unified Office
Format (UOF).
Also on Monday, the
company is expected to make
available beta versions of
previously announced
translators between PowerPoint
and Excel and corresponding
applications that support the
OpenDocument Format, or ODF.
The converters, to be
http://sourceforge.net/project
s/odftranslator/>available on
the SourceForge.net site, let
people open and save documents
in either the Ecma Open XML
formats or ODF. An initial
translator for Word was
released earlier this year;
those for PowerPoint and Excel
are expected to be completed
by the end of the year. ..
winbeta.org - 21.05.2007
Add Word/Excel 97-2003 Documents Back to the "New" Context Menu
If you are using Office 2007 in an environment where everybody else is using Office 2003, you might have already set Excel or Word to always save to 2003 format, but
what about when you create new documents using the New menu? The only choices are now to create files in 2007 format, but we can add the old ones
back.
winbeta.org - 18.08.2008
Microsoft Acknowledges Floating Point Bug in Excel 2007
It's the type of bug that, when discovered twenty years ago on the world's leading spreadsheets of the time, generated controversy and sent
thousands back to their software stores for refunds: Excel 2007 has a bug with the display of floating-point values, a Microsoft developer confirmed on his team's blog yesterday.
BetaNews confirmed the bug's existence, which leads to some values in floating-point multiplication to be "rounded" to incorrect values.
The problem appears to be with certain kinds of pairs of values whose product is either 216 (65,536) or 216 - 1
(65,535). When one or both factors has floating-point precision but is only slightly fractional - meaning, it has perhaps one or two decimal places
but is otherwise not "imaginary," to borrow its mathematical meaning - Excel renders the product as 100,000 instead.
winbeta.org - 26.09.2007
Olympic trojan beats Microsoft to Excel patch
Microsoft's decision to hold back an Excel patch from last month's Patch Tuesday may have left millions exposed as attackers target the un-patched
flaw in Excel.
The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning that Excel file attachments are being used
to spread a trojan which allows a hacker to gain user rights to a PC.
The trojan is packed inside an Excel attachment and
exploits a flaw discovered in multiple versions of Excel in January.
winbeta.org - 11.03.2008
Excel Flaw in Asian Office
Versions
Researchers disclosed another
flaw within Excel on Thursday,
saying it could allow
attackers to take control of a
user's computer. The newest
vulnerability is the third
discovered in the popular
spreadsheet program in the
past month...
betanews.com - 07.07.2006
Office 2003 Service Pack 3 imminent?
Microsoft just published a
download for Office 2003
Service Pack 3 Administrative
Templates (ADM). I guess this
means Office 2003 SP3 is
around the corner.
The download includes
updated Group Policy
Administrative Template files,
OPA files, and an updated
Microsoft Excel workbook that
lists the Administrative
Template policy settings and
OPA settings.
This
download includes the
following updates:-
Policy settings that provide
the ability to block file
format settings to prevent
users from opening or saving
specific file types and file
formats in Microsoft Office
Excel 2003, Microsoft Office
PowerPoint 2003, and Microsoft
Office Word 2003.
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An updated Excel 2003 workbook
(Office 2003 Group
Policies.xls) that describes
policy settings listed in the
various Administrative
Template and OPA files. It
supports changes to the Office
2003 SP3 policy settings.
Note: This update
replaces the previously
available Office 2003 Service
Pack 2 Administrative Template
(ADM), OPAs, and Explain Text
Update download.
winbeta.org - 25.07.2007
Office 2007 SP1 Yields Modest Performance Gains
exo.blog: During our most recent
round of testing we covered Windows Vista with the Service Pack 1 Release Candidate bits running both Office 2007 and Office 2003. Now that
Service Pack 1 for Office 2007 has been released we decided to revisit the tests with the updated bits for Word, Excel and PowerPoint in place.
Once again, we ran the tests on the same 2GHz Core 2 Duo Laptop (Dell XPS M1710) with 2GB of memory. Test methodology consisted of
booting Vista, running an initial pass of OfficeBench, then running OfficeBench in a 10-iteration loop and recording the average loop time across the
iterations.
The net result: A 3% improvement in OfficeBench completion times.
winbeta.org - 14.12.2007
Excel Focus of July Patch
Tuesday
Microsoft released a bevy of
critical updates Tuesday, with
a focus on the multitude of
Excel vulnerabilities that
have sprung up over recent
months. In total, seven
security bulletins were issued
for Windows and Office...
betanews.com - 12.07.2006
Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2 (Beta)
Today not only marks the
release of a new beta Remote
Desktop client from Microsoft,
but also a new
beta Microsoft Office Open
XML File Format Converter for
Mac 0.2 (Beta).
It converts Office files
that use Microsoft's new Open
XML file format (i.e. files
created in Office 2007 for
Windows) into a file format
that Office 2004 for the Mac
can read. This release
promises improved conversion
of files containing inline
graphics, amongst other
things.
Since
this is a beta Microsoft warns
that all files might not be
converted correctly. They
suggest you open the file and
make sure it looks like it
should.
winbeta.org - 01.08.2007
