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Archive for the ‘Microsoft Office’ Category

November 27th, 2007

Microsoft Office Alternatives

Almost everyone does two things with Microsoft Office: complain about it and use it. You, your friends, and basically everyone you know is using it but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the suite you should be using. The way Office works, and the high price tag that Microsoft charges for, may not really suit your […]

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October 2nd, 2007

Microsoft puts Office on the Web and Adobe Follows

Microsoft on Monday announced new services such as Microsoft Office Live Workspace, a new Web-based feature of Microsoft Office that lets people access their documents online and share their work with others. This new strategy departs from the company’s current model of selling licenses for software that runs locally on PC’s, and takes it a […]

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August 22nd, 2007

Converting PDFs to MS Word Documents

Having trouble converting that important PDf document into Microsoft’s Office document types? Normally you would assume that you will need Adobe’s full featured Adobe Acrobat (which costs upwards of 200 usd) to do that. Here are some ways to convert your pdf docs at a fraction of the cost.

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March 21st, 2007

Want to know more about Microsoft’s next OS?

Vista is just barely a couple of months old and here we have news about Microsoft’s next OS:
According to a PowerPoint presentation (download PDF) created by a technical staffer at Microsoft Denmark, the software vendor plans to invest in four major areas in the next client version of Windows after Vista. Microsoft has already begun […]

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December 6th, 2006

Microsoft advises emailers: don’t open that word document from untrusted sources

Malicious Microsoft Word attacks may be on the loose, according to a Microsoft Security Advisory. These zero-day attacks may use a “vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for Mac, as well as Microsoft […]

By Mary Ford -- 0 comments

October 15th, 2006

Alert: new MS Office 2003 PowerPoint Flaw

(a bug!) Just days after Microsoft issued a slew of patches for its Windows systems, Net framework and for Office products, including four alone for PowerPoint, programmers published a ‘proof of concept’ (PoC) code, revealing yet another vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2003 PowerPoint. As yet, no zero-day exploits of this flaw exist.
[Microsoft Security Response Center […]

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October 12th, 2006

Troubleshoot Microsoft windows office updates

This morning I attempted to do a Microsoft Windows update for Publisher 2003. Microsoft offers two security udates this week. The error messages were laughable!:

1. Security Update for Office 2003 (KB923272): “A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office 2003 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This […]

By Mary Ford -- 1 comment

October 3rd, 2006

Pitch the perfect PowerPoint presentation

What a hoot! Guy Kawasaki’s rules for the perfect Powerpoint presentation include:
“… give your ten slides in twenty minutes. Sure, you have an hour time slot, but you’re using a Windows laptop, so it will take forty minutes to make it work with the projector… ” [10/20/30 Rule by Guy Kawasaki, via All Tips and […]

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September 25th, 2006

Microsoft Office Live - free domain and hosting

Microsoft Office Live Free Domain and Hosting, Sep 25 Tech Bargains: .It is back. Microsoft has a free Domain name, email, and web hosting.
Wow. PopDeal.com is down, so I visited Tech Bargains and saw the above great deal. Go get your free domain, web hosting and tools from Microsoft.com - free, during beta […]

By Mary Ford -- 1 comment

September 14th, 2006

patch, patch patch… Falling off your segway? blame the computer

If you are one of the 23,000 persons who has a Segway, stop riding it and download Segway’s computer update patch for it right now: until you do, a glitch in its computer may cause it to suddenly roll backwards instead of forward and pitch its rider — you — into the street….
hmmm… it’s […]

By Mary Ford -- 0 comments