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Google: Firms can 'get rid' of Office in a year
News Search giant sets sights on office software leader, Microsoft Office, with "30 to 50 updates" to be released for Google Docs next year, says top exec.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Office, Google Inc., OpenDocument Format, Worker, Microsoft Corp., software, Office Open XML, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Comfort, trust give Office edge over Google
News Microsoft will only offer hosted productivity suite next year, but Office has user familiarity, trust and resources that Google may not match, say analysts.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Microsoft Office, Social Networking, Google Inc., Social Networking Feature, Security, Microsoft Corp., Web Application, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Eric Schmidt wants Google in your office
Insight newsmaker Google services for business customers will become "very profitable" once they reach sufficient scale, CEO says in an interview.
Tags: Web services, Web 2.0, Web sites, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Google Voice, Microsoft Corp., Information Technology, Web sites, Web 2.0
Microsoft patches critical hole in Windows kernel
News November's Patch Tuesday features fixes for holes in Windows, Excel, and Word, and a critical one affecting the Windows kernel that could be used in drive-by download attacks on Web surfers.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security applications/tools, Microsoft Office, Security, Microsoft Corp., Kernel, Apple Macintosh, antivirus, patch management
End of an era for Office 2000
News Support for Office 2000 expired Tuesday, 10 years after Steve Ballmer announced a Web-based version of the productivity suite.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Office suites, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, productivity suite, software-as-a-service, online application, Web, Microsoft Office, Office suites
Zap unwanted formatting in Word
Techguide You can spend a lot of time formatting content in a Word document and then even more time trying to get rid of it!
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office, Customization Tool, Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel 2010, Excel 2010, October Sale, C, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Microsoft Excel 2007
A quick method for counting Access records in a form
Techguide There are several ways to count the records in a form's recordset. In fact, Access forms display the record count by default.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Method, File, Tool, Tools Menu, Microsoft Excel 2007, File Menu, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, dialog box
Zero-day PowerPoint flaw gives rise to attacks
News Hackers are trying to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in the Office software, leading Microsoft to issue a warning and workarounds.
Tags: Hacking, Microsoft Office, windows alerts, Microsoft Corp., Security, Attack, Microsoft Office 2003, SP3, Flaw, Environment
Web-based e-mail: Businesses beware
News Businesses should think carefully before opting for low cost Web-based e-mail services.
Tags: E-mail servers, Communications, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Avant, Microsoft Corp., Radicati Group Inc., Backup, Small Business, e-mail
Microsoft to patch Excel hole, seven others
News Eight security patches are coming on Patch Tuesday, including one for a critical vulnerability in Excel that could be a fix for a hole attackers have been exploiting.
Tags: PC security, Network security, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Security, Vulnerability, Microsoft Office 2004, spreadsheet software, Microsoft Internet Explorer
My favourite Vista keyboard shortcuts
Blogs People who see me working on my notebook are often amazed with the speed at which I perform tasks by using the keyboard ...
Microsoft to plug holes in Windows, IE, Word, Office and Excel
News Microsoft will issue six critical security updates and four others for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Word and Excel as part of next week's Patch Tuesday.
Tags: Business applications, Mobile applications, Personal applications, Microsoft Office, Adobe Systems Inc., Security, Microsoft Internet Explorer, security bulletin, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Excel
Microsoft's file format perestroika
News Company agrees to publish documentation letting developers know how it will implement ODF and Open XML within Microsoft Office.
Tags: Open source, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, project manager, Microsoft Office 2007, software, News.com, European Commission
IBM offers Lotus with extra widgets
News Big Blue is targeting Office users with the latest increments to Symphony, while phasing out its own use of the Microsoft suite.
Tags: Business applications, IBM Corp., Tool, Spokesperson, collaboration, team
Microsoft warns of targeted Word attacks
News The software giant is investigating reports of a Word vulnerability that appears to affect Word 2002 Service Pack 3.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Attack, software company, software, Security Update, agency, Security
