Most new PCs these days will come preinstalled with Microsoft’s relatively new Office 2010 Starter.  This is the replacement for the frankly awful Microsoft Works and gives people a much better upgrade path to the full version of Office if they want it… or does it? I get a regular tech mailbag of people asking [...]

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Microsoft have now released their popular note-taking app, OneNote for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch.  The program, which is part of their Office suite is popular with people wanting to make notes in meetings of who want to jot down thoughts on the go. While built-into the company’s own Windows Phone operating system, iOS is [...]

Categories: iPhone, iPod, Microsoft

Next Tuesday Microsoft officially launches its Office 365 product.  This product, which was expected for several years before any official announcement came, is the company’s new subscription service for business.  In short it takes the IT department into the cloud with email, calendaring, exchange, Office, Sharepoint intranet services, Messenger and their new Lync communications suite [...]

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Office 365, Microsoft’s attempt to bring Office to the web as a subscription based service, has been available since 2010 for a select number of beta testers. Back then you were able to enter your email address to receive a notification once the service would enter public beta. That day has come and users from [...]

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Oracle, with the purchase of the software company Sun, is the current main sponsor of the Open Source project. Members of the Open Office project formed The Document Foundation back in September 2010 and made available a fork of Open Office that they called Libre Office. Open Office is governed by the Community Council which [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Open Source, Software, Windows

Microsoft have now announced a beta of their Office 365product suite for businesses.  The suite is the long anticipated hosted solution for exchange and sharepoint.  In itself these hosted services will save a great many companies from having to purchase and maintain their own server rooms, but Office 365 brings much more to the table [...]

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Microsoft have already said that the new Office:Mac 2011 suite will be launched on October 26th, but now NeoWin is reporting that Microsoft have said that at 8am PDT on Tuesday 19th October, Kurt DelBene, the President of the Microsoft Office division and Chris Capossela, the Vice-President for Information Worked Product Management Group will make an [...]

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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 [...]

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I’ve long been a subscriber to Microsoft’s Action Pack which is for small businesses.  You get 10 licences for Windows and Office plus a Windows Server licence or two for £220 a year.  Plus the software never expires. Many people say that subscription software is the way we’re all going but I’ve been making significant [...]

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