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 2009, the list will grow to include support for...

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 (for Vista and XP). Today, we are giving...

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 technology. But officials wouldn’t talk — except...

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 Office Labs team in partnership with the teams that...

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 group Live Labs , Office Labs aims to test ideas...

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) validation mechanism (for Office XP and Office 2007...

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 the Microsoft front, the Mac Business Unit released...

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 like Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, gOffice, etc...

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 it finds in the folder however the updates need...

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 Web 2.0 rivals’ offerings. Office Live Workspace is...