Microsoft® Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) represents a major evolution in security for Office 2003. It further hardens the Office suite against potential attacks and other security threats. This service pack also includes fixes that have been previously released as separate updates for Office 2003.
You can get specific information about this update in the [...]
September 19, 2007
Categories: Microsoft, Office, Software . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
If you bought a cheap PC that didn’t come with Microsoft Office preinstalled, or at least MS Word, you may have gotten a free copy of Microsoft Works. It’s always been sort of an ironic name for a product, because it just barely works. Sure, if all you need is a basic spreadsheet, calendar, or [...]
July 31, 2007
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While the Trey chair website tries to portray it as the office chair of a thousand uses (particularly in this photo gallery) in reality it only has two. The first is just like a normal office chair with all the features we’ve come to expect like built-in height adjustment and seat tilt, however, the second [...]
June 27, 2007
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Got a Linux box in the house and want just a few applications from over there (Linux) to run over here (Windows)? This may just be the trick.
The X windows system - the base which allows graphical applications to run in Linux - has always had the ability for an application to run on one [...]
June 25, 2007
Categories: Linux, OS Updates, Office, Open Source, Windows . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
Google has added yet another document preview button to Gmail. You could already preview Word documents and spreadsheets sent as file attachments using Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Now if you receive an email with an attached PowerPoint presentation, you can view the slideshow in your web browser with no need to download.
The PowerPoint viewer is [...]
June 12, 2007
Categories: E-mail, Google, Internet, Office . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: 1 Comment
If you are a regular user of Microsoft Office, and the Box.net storage platform, you are going to love this new feature that makes storing and accessing your docs online an easy alternative to Google’s Docs and Spreadsheets.
The Box.net team has just completed work on an Office On Demand feature for Word users that enables [...]
May 22, 2007
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Yesterday Microsoft released an update to Outlook 2007 to help speed up the downloading of messages and reduce the annoying and highly criticized freezing associated with moving or deleting messages.
Microsoft indicated that the problem stemmed from RSS feeds, email, and calendar files all being stored in the same .PST file which as one might imagine [...]
April 16, 2007
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Microsoft Corporation has started private testing of Office 2008 for Mac, the first version of Office for the Macintosh that runs natively on both Intel- and Power PC-based Macs. As well, the new software adds support for the XML file formats that Microsoft added to Office 2007, which hit store shelves in January. Microsoft did [...]
April 2, 2007
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WaxMail enables you to quickly and easily add voice recordings to outgoing e-mail.
This free plug-in is available for Outlook and Outlook Express. Once installed, you simply click the New WaxMail button to create a new message, then click Record to start recording. When you’re done, the audio file is automatically attached to your e-mail as [...]
March 16, 2007
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Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch caught what could be evidence that Microsoft is prepping some sort of online spreadsheet program, which would probably be a stripped down version of Excel.
Microsoft Developer Tod Hilton posted on his personal blog that he’s moving from Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services to the company’s Excel Services team. And yesterday, he [...]
March 11, 2007
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has quietly put the kibosh on Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), banning upgrades to those Microsoft Corp. products — at least for now. Donna Seymour, CIO of the DOT’s Maritime Administration (MARAD), said a July move of the agency’s Washington headquarters is to blame for the [...]
March 6, 2007
Categories: Business, Government, Microsoft, OS Updates, Office, Software . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: 1 Comment
You have got to admit, the open source folks really have a way with names. I mean, Feisty Fawn? Ubuntu? Gentoo? Fedora? It goes on and on and on. And if you thought it couldn’t get any worse, now there’s Wizpy. I don’t think I’m going out on a limb on this one, but Wizpy [...]
February 28, 2007
Categories: Business, Fun, Handheld, Hardware, Internet, Linux, Office, Open Source . . Author: Vash the Stampede . Comments: No Comments
Corel released a free public beta of WordPerfect Lightning today, a word processor that blends a desktop-based application with online collaboration and storage features. WordPerfect Lightening has a “Notes” tool to save text and images from the Internet, in addition to a “Viewer” that can handle the portable document format (.pdf), WordPerfect, and Microsoft’s Word [...]
February 27, 2007
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Could Google be developing a PowerPoint and Keynote killer? Looks like it might be in testing mode from the code that both the Google Operating System blog, and TechCrunch have reported on. It’s a perfect choice for Google to add to its “non-office” suite of products. The code name appears to be Presently, and could [...]
February 6, 2007
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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 [...]
January 31, 2007
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