Yesterday’s monthly patch day was a big one, with 17 patches fixing a total of 64 security issues in Microsoft products. Affected applications include Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. If you look closer you notice that nine of the 17 patches have a maximum severity rating of critical, the highest possible rating. The [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Security, Windows

How are you managing your documents? Are you using a desktop application like Microsoft Office or Open Office, or do you prefer a could based service like Google Docs or Zoho? Some users see benefits in both ways of managing documents, which usually means that they have to find a way to transfer documents between [...]

Categories: Google, Software, Windows

One of the main points of criticisms of Google’ online document viewer Google Docs Viewer was that several widely used formats were not supported by it. Among the unsupported formats were Microsoft Excel files, both .xls and xlsx to be precise, the new PowerPoint format .pptx, Adobe Photoshop .psd files and many lesser used but [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

The Microsoft Office add-in, Office Live Files closes the existing gap between Microsoft’s popular Office suite and their online service Office Live. You see, while it is possible to save documents to Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive service it is not that easy to load the uploaded documents again in Microsoft Office. While it is possible [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The majority of computer users is using their computers at least partially to work with documents and spreadsheets. Microsoft Word is still one of the most popular text editing applications on the Windows operating system. It is a professional software program that comes at a price, or does it not? Many users are looking for [...]

Categories: Online Services, Software, Windows

Microsoft has released information and patches of this month’s patch day. It is promising that there is no patch for Windows in this month’s patch day. The three bulletins that have been released fix security issues in Microsoft Office and Microsoft forefront United Access Gateway. One of the MS Offices bulletins has a maximum severity [...]

Categories: Security

Mike covered Office 365 before here on Ghacks. Without rehashing what has already been said, Office 365 is a cloud based service by Microsoft that brings Microsoft Office, Sharepoint, Exchange and Lync together in the cloud. The service aims at business and organizations who do not want to invest in local server solutions by working [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

One of the most annoying things in Firefox is that third party software can install add-ons and plugins without the user’s consent. That’s a big no-no from a security standpoint obviously, and it remains a mystery why the developers have never bothered to fix that flaw by adding a confirmation dialog whenever a new plugin [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

For a few years now the Apple version of Microsoft Office, which is one of the biggest-selling software packages on the platform, has lagged behind its Windows cousin  due to the absence of the intuitive Ribbon Interface.  This was partly because of the different way Apple’s OS X handles drop down menus and commands for [...]

Categories: Apple, Microsoft