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 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, there’s 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 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 Confirms Windows 7 for 2010 – No Word on Windows 7 M2
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 is right on track for release in 2010. Concomitantly with the leaked details associated with Windows 7 Milestone 1 dropped by the Redmond company to select partners in January 2008, a potential timetable for the availability of the successor of Windows Vista was also made public.
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12.3.2008 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 Exchange 2007 RTMed
This morning, we signed off Exchange 2007 for release to you!
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8.12.2006 What Will 2007 Bring from Microsoft?
As Microsoft heads into 2007, which will be marked by the general availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 in late January, analysts weigh in with their predictions for the year.
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31.12.2006 2007: a world without Microsoft?
Here's a little thought experiment to take into the New Year. Not as difficult as Schrodinger's Cat, but thought provoking nevertheless. Imagine that you woke up tomorrow to a world without Microsoft.
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1.1.2007 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 CES 2007 in Pictures
With 2,700 exhibitors, filling 1.8 million net square feet of exhibit space, and over 140,000 attendees, CES is simply the largest consumer electronics show in the world.
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11.1.2007 AutoPatcher February 2007
AutoPatcher is a comprehensive collection of patches, addons and registry tweaks that give you peace of mind in the knowledge that your Windows system is up to date, even before you connect it to the Internet.
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21.2.2007 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 AutoPatcher Vista May 2007
This is a complete list of whats included in the English release of AutoPatcher Vista as of the May 2007 release. This Vista release can be applied in any Windows Vista release, independently of the language and the system (32 or 64 bit).
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14.5.2007 WinHEC 2007: Day 1
Today I saw some really cool stuff at WinHEC 2007. WinHEC truly "advances the platform" this year with the platform being Windows Vista and Windows Server.
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17.5.2007Microsoft 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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18.08.2009Benchmarking 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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23.07.2008Microsoft 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.
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04.09.2009Judge 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.
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12.08.2009Mac 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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17.05.2007Web 2.0 is the millionth English word, word 999,998 is n00b
It seems like the world should have passed this mark a long time ago but as of June 10th 2009, "Web 2.0", became the official 1 millionth word to
enter the English language. It is defined as "
he next generation of web products and services, coming soon to a browser near you". Other words
that almost made the claim as the one millionth word were 999,999, "Jai Ho!", which was made popular from the movie Slum Dog millionaire. Also
another notable word that is infamous in the gaming world, n00b, is officially word number 999,998. It's also the only mainstream English word
that contains two numerals.
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neowin.net - 11.06.2009
Article 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.
winbeta.org - 20.03.2008
The 2007 'Word of the Year' is...w00t!
That's not an interjection from the reporter. The exclamation "w00t" was chosen by Merriam-Webster's online users as 2007's Word of the
Year...
betanews.com - 13.12.2007
Microsoft Security Advisory (950627)
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of very limited, targeted attacks using a vulnerability in the Microsoft Jet Database Engine that can be
exploited through Microsoft Word.
Customers running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, and Windows Vista Service
Pack 1 are not vulnerable to the buffer overrun being attacked, as they include a version of the Microsoft Jet Database Engine that is not vulnerable
to this issue.
Customers using Microsoft Word 2000 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Word 2002 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Word 2003
Service Pack 2, Microsoft Word 2003 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Word 2007, and Microsoft Word 2007 Service Pack 1 on Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP,
or Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 are vulnerable to these attacks.
winbeta.org - 22.03.2008
12 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.
winbeta.org - 23.02.2008
Microsoft Confirms Another Word Zero-Day Flaw
The latest flaw comes just
days after the software maker
issued a security advisory to
warn customers against opening
Word documents from untrusted
sources. The two
vulnerabilities are entirely
unrelated.
Microsoft has not yet issued
a formal prepatch advisory
but, in a blog entry, Security
Program Manager Scott Deacon
listed affected software
versions as Word 2000, Word
2002, Word 2003 and the Word
Viewer 2003. Microsoft Word
2007 is not affected by the
second vulnerability.
Microsoft suggests that
users "do not open or save
Word files," even those that
arrive unexpectedly from
trusted sources.
"From the initial reports
and investigation we can
confirm that the vulnerability
is being exploited on a very,
very limited and targeted
basis," Deacon added.
According to a US-CERT
advisory, the latest bug is a
memory corruption issue that
occurs when a Word file is
rigged with malformed data
structures.
jcxp.net - 13.12.2006
Microsoft Office dumped by Science and Nature
Respected academic journals
Science and
Nature will no longer
accept manuscripts written in
Microsoft's Office 2007
suite.
The decision
was made because the latest
version of Word is no longer
compatible with Mathematical
Markup Language (MathML), the
de facto standard for writing
equations in text documents,
according to recent notices
posted on the Web sites of
both Science and Nature
journals. In Office 2007,
Microsoft's own Office MathML
(OMML) is used for equations.
"Because of changes
Microsoft made in its recent
Word release that are
incompatible with our internal
workflow, which was built
around previous versions of
the software, Science cannot,
at present, accept any files
in the new .docx format
produced through Microsoft
Word 2007, either for initial
submission or for revision,"
Science journal stated on its
site...
winbeta.org - 18.06.2007
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
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:
Stop, don't jump to the end
of this post to push the
comment button yet. I'm not
an idiot. I'm not endorsing
you commit HTML suicide. If
you've ever written a post in
Word 2003 or before and then
copied and pasted the text
into your web browser you know
what I'm talking about.
Sure you can do it,
but you have to run one of
those HTML clean up tools so
that your posts don't look
mangled. Even then the HTML is
not tight and clean,
right?
Well no
more. We've been working late
into the nights and very late
into our development schedule
for Word 2007 and we have a
special goody for all you
bloggers in Beta 2 of Office
2007. That's right blog post
authoring from Word. This is a
very late breaking feature and
is definitely beta software.
That said, I hope that
everyone is pleasantly
surprised with where we are
going with this feature.
jcxp.net - 13.05.2006
Word 2003 and Earlier Still Vulnerable to E-mail Attacks
The effectiveness of a patch
issued last September for a
Microsoft Word vulnerability,
where .DOC files opened in
Word 2003 and earlier versions
via Internet Explorer or
Outlook could enable remote
code execution, is being
called into question today...
betanews.com - 06.12.2006
New Microsoft Service Pack Nobbles Word
David Richards: An automatic Microsoft upgrade that has crashed popular word processing package Word which is part of Microsoft's Office 2007
offering has been pumped to millions of computers.
Overnight Microsoft has pumped 11 upgrades for Vista and Office to millions of
computers and on two seperate computers both at home and in my office the upgrade has nobbled both Word and my default email package. Microsoft say
that they are investigating the issues...
winbeta.org - 14.02.2008
Evolution of Microsoft Word
Nathan Weinberg: This blog has a
screenshot and commentary collection, looking at Microsoft Word over the last twenty years. Its more amazing how many things were in place already
in 1989, including the familiar toolbar layout, and how long it took some things to change. You can see Microsoft made the right move with Office
2007, given how the only major changes in the previous several versions all focused on that stupid Clippy character.
winbeta.org - 10.03.2008
Tools: Microsoft Office 2003 to Office 2007 guide
One of my biggest worries with
the upgrade from MS Office
2003 to Office 2007 is that
our users will keep the
helpdesk busy with questions
about the new user interfaces
of Word 2007, Excel 2007 and
PowerPoint 2007. The changes
are really big. Microsoft now
offers a very useful and
easy-to-use tool which allows
users to find the new
locations of commands they
know from former Office
versions.
So far
there are guides for Word 2003 to
Word 2007, Excel 2003
to Excel 2007 and PowerPoint
2003 to PowerPoint 2007.
They are all flash
applications simulating these
three Office programs. If you
click on a function of Word
2003, for example, the flash
tool will run a short
animation showing you where
you can find this function in
Word 2007.
neowin.net - 30.01.2007
Symantec Finds Exploit in Doc Created with Word 2004 for Mac
Another Patch Tuesday, another patched vulnerability pairs up with an exploit in the wild.
This Tuesday, Microsoft issued a patch that
closed a critical vulnerability in multiple editions of its popular word processor, including Word 2000, Word XP and Word for the Mac. Symantec
reported that it found an exploit for said vulnerability the next day. " Taking a closer look at that vulnerability, we confirmed that this
document was in fact exploiting the same vulnerability ," said researcher Orla Cox. Symantec obtained a suspicious Word document that crashed
every version of the application except the newest, Word 2007, when opened. After it examined the document created with the edition of Word included
with Office for Mac 2004, Symantec found that the document included shell code and three pieces of malware.
neowin.net - 12.10.2007
Microsoft Tries to Explain Away Outlook 2007 Controversy
Microsoft is trying to dampen
criticism by explaining its
controversial decision to
unify the rendering and
editing engines in Outlook
2007 and use only the Word
2007 engine, even though there
are some HTML and Cascading
Style Sheet attributes that
the engine does not currently
support. The move is a
significant change from
previous versions of Outlook,
which actually used two
rendering engines: Internet
Explorer's engine was used
for reading content, while
Word was used for editing
content when a user was
composing messages. Outlook
2007 now uses the HTML parsing
and rendering engine from Word
2007 to display HTML message
bodies.
However,
there are some HTML and CSS
attributes that the Word 2007
rendering engine does not
support, and Outlook 2007 now
does not use the same
standards as Internet Explorer
7. The move has not been
well-received by some
bloggers, such as SitePoint's
Kevin Yank, who said in a
recent post that instead of
taking advantage of Internet
Explorer 7, Outlook 2007 uses
the very limited support for
HTML and CSS built into Word
2007 to display HTML e-mail
messages.
neowin.net - 31.01.2007
