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• Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support XPS, PDF and ODF

  The 2007 Microsoft Office system already provides support for 20 different document formats within Microsoft Office Word, Office Excel and Office PowerPoint. With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) scheduled for the first half of... Posted May 22 2008, 09:14 AM by Admin with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: 2007, Office, SP2

• Office 2007 SP1 releasing to Automatic Update

  The Office and MU teams says : "As we noted when we released Office 2003 Service Pack 3 via Microsoft Update (MU), we are committed to providing at least 30 days notice before making Office service packs available via Microsoft Update automatic distribution... Posted May 09 2008, 08:43 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, 2007, SP1, Office

• Office streaming: What Microsoft will and won’t say

  Last week, there was talk that Microsoft was considering broadening the way it makes Microsoft Office available over the Web using streaming technology . On April 30, Microsoft shared a bit more about its future plans for streaming, using its SoftGrid... Posted May 01 2008, 11:38 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Office

• Announcing OfficeLabs.com

  http://www.officelabs.com/Pages/Default.aspx "Welcome to Microsoft Office Labs! This site is a proving ground for ideas that come from regular employees and interns who work anywhere in Microsoft. Most of the code prototypes are developed by the... Posted Apr 30 2008, 09:45 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Office, Labs

• Search Commands now available from Office Labs

  Microsoft Office Labs, probably best known for their concept video of the future of personal health which was shown at MIX08 (video) , have just launched their public website today at www.officelabs.com . Similarly to Microsoft’s other product-development... Posted Apr 28 2008, 05:58 PM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Office, Labs

• Microsoft to add the Genuine Advantage ‘nag’ to Office

  Microsoft is set to begin a pilot of a new Genuine Advantage anti-piracy mechanism for Office that will add a “nag-like” feature, akin to what is now part of Windows Vista, to Office. Office already currently includes an Office Genuine Advantage (OGA... Posted Apr 09 2008, 09:13 AM by Admin with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Office, Genuine

• There’s still a lot of life left in desktop office suites

  Even though all the Web 2.0 crowd seems to think matters are Web-based office suites/services, there’s still a lot of life left in client-based productivity software from Microsoft and others. There’s still a lot of life left in desktop office suitesOn... Posted Dec 17 2007, 09:52 AM by Martin with | with no comments Filed under: Office, Desktop

• R.I.P.: The Web 2.0 Office Suite

  For all the hubbub about Web-based alternatives to Microsoft Office, surely someone is using them. Uh-Oh, surely not. In a recent survey, NPD asked nearly 600 PC users: "Have you heard about online, browser-based office productivity applications... Posted Dec 17 2007, 09:51 AM by Martin with | with no comments Filed under: Office, Web

• Office 2007 SP1 Installation/Slipstream Guide

  Some of you may be wondering how to do a clean install of Office 2007 using an Office 2007 RTM image along with SP1 at the same time. As you may know, Office 2007 makes use of the Updates folder in the installation media to install any new updates that... Posted Dec 12 2007, 08:47 AM by Martin with | with no comments Filed under: 2007, SP1, Office

• Microsoft’s Office Live Workspace: What it is and isn’t

  Microsoft Office Live Workspace — which Microsoft released to U.S. beta testers on December 10 — is Microsoft’s answer to Google Docs . That said, there are some pieces of Microsoft’s newest Live service that are different from Google’s and its other... Posted Dec 11 2007, 02:35 PM by Martin with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Office, Live

• Office 2007 sp1 ready for download today

  Today sp1 ships. hurray. It's not up there yet but should be later today. Also the kb articles for each patch don't seem to be live at this moment but should also appear later on today. Looking down the list of fixes, here are some that caught... Posted Dec 11 2007, 02:31 PM by Martin with | with no comments Filed under: 2007, SP1, Office

• How is Microsoft Office licensed

  I have seen a conversation taking place in one of the online forums about how Microsoft Office is licensed and how secondary use rights fits in. To that end, I thought I would post this information here to address the question and for others to use in... Posted Dec 09 2007, 07:16 PM by Martin with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, Office

• Microsoft to deliver Office 2007 SP1 early

  Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on Office 2007 Service Pack (SP) 1 and is hoping to roll it out the week of December 10, according to sources claiming familiarity with Microsoft’s schedule. Microsoft officials said last month during the company... Posted Dec 05 2007, 09:29 AM by Martin with | with no comments Filed under: Microsoft, SP1, Office