Tag: Office
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Microsoft to Pay Reparations for Vista, Office Delays
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Microsoft: No Virtual PC for Intel-based Macs
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft has decided not to move forward with a version of Virtual PC for the Intel-based Macintosh, and will also be discontinuing support of Visual Basic scripting in the next version of Office for Mac, the company said. As Virtual PC for Mac was originally developed on the PowerPC platform, the amount of time that… Read more
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Online Office Apps Fall Short for Enterprise
Categories: News and TrendsWhen Microsoft releases Office 2007 later in 2006, the major overhaul of the venerable office productivity suite is likely to spur an examination of lower-priced alternatives. Competitors such as Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice, OpenOffice.org’s OpenOffice and Corel’s WordPerfect are most often brought up as competitors, but a new crop of Web-based productivity tools is beginning to… Read more
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Xandros Offers 50 Percent Rebate on New Linux Products
Categories: News and TrendsXandros, hoping to capture what it calls “50 million disenfranchised Windows” users, is offering a 50 percent rebate on its Desktop Home and Home Edition Premium editions of its Linux operating system. The regular Home edition sells for $39.99, and the premium edition sells for $79.99. If users upgrade their operating system from Windows 98,… Read more
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Heard at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference
Categories: Tech CompaniesWords and musings from Microsoft executives at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference July 11-13 in Boston. “There are 600 million Windows and Office users worldwide. … Who will be the first to show them the power of Vista and Office 2007? Our imperative is to become the first and best users of this technology. … Bring… Read more
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Seven MS Office, Windows Patches to Cover Critical Flaws
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft plans to release seven security bulletins on July 11 to cover a range of critical vulnerabilities affecting Windows and Office users. Four of the seven bulletins will include patches for flaws in the Windows operating system, while three will deal with bugs in the Microsoft Office productivity suite. eBay ends the bidding on a… Read more