MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 – MORE CHALLENGES AHEAD

Windows Vista will present a learning curve and some frustration when it begins shipping next week, but I’m wondering whether the new version of Microsoft Office might take even more heat than Vista from confused users.Many things are changed about Vista but...

MICROSOFT OFFICE STUDENT EDITION

Here’s an article with an interesting statistic: Microsoft Office 2003 Student And Teacher Edition made up 80% of all sales of productivity suites in 2006. Microsoft lowered the price on a student edition of Office to $150 in 2001 and has kept the price there...

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 FOR SMALL BUSINESS

Microsoft Office 2007 will arrive on January 30 along with Windows Vista. My sense is that it will have a much different effect at large companies than in small businesses.Everyone’s initial impression will be disorientation, since menus and buttons are...

NOVEMBER 30 LAUNCH FOR WINDOWS VISTA, OFFICE 2007

Microsoft announced today that Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 will officially launch on November 30.It’s a little unclear what that means, since boxed copies of the software won’t be available to purchase until January 30. The Microsoft statement...

OCTOBER UPDATES

Microsoft released a big crop of updates yesterday for Windows and Microsoft Office programs – there are ten patches on the official list but my computer shows fifteen items ready to be installed this morning. Yesterday Microsoft was having some trouble with the...

WORD REDACTION TOOL

There have been several embarrassing incidents recently in which information was learned from electronic documents because they were not adequately secured. In some cases, the editing history of a Word document was revealing; in others, text was still readable despite...