Margaret H. says “I downloaded a .odt file from Wikipedia but when I tried to open it in Word 2010 all I get are errors. Even the repair option doesn’t work. I thought Word 2007 and 2010 supported OpenOffice documents? “ Wikipedia has a nifty ‘book’ feature that lets you compile a group of Wikipedia [...]

Microsoft is gradually rolling out browser-based versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. If you have a Windows Live / Hotmail login you might receive an invitation to join the pre-release trials. If you accept the invitation, what do you get? At the moment it includes only Excel and Powerpoint – Word and OneNote editing [...]

WHY BOTHER WITH THE FOLLOWING TERMS WHEN YOU CAN HAVE YOUR OWN FREE MICROSOFT OFFICE CLONE FROM OPEN2XL? THERE IS NO NEED TO BE BOUND BY SUCH RESTRICTIVE LICENSING AND PAY HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS WHEN YOU CAN HAVE IT FOR FREE! MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010 DESKTOP APPLICATION SOFTWARE Below are three separate [...]

What to do when Outlook won’t reconnect to Exchange Server Ira J writes from his work laptop: “I have Outlook on my laptop for work. I leave it on all the time whether I’m connected to the Internet or not. Sometimes Outlook won’t connect to the office even when there’s a net connection and it [...]

Microsoft loses Word case Microsoft lost its last appeal against a ruling that it used patented technology in Word.   The US Supreme Court has confirmed a ruling that Microsoft is guilty of patent infringement in Word, awarding the largest ever judgment in an patent appeal case – US$290 million. Microsoft lost their appeal 8–0 [...]

Is Office 2003 Service Pack 2 dead? Is Office 2003 SP2 ‘dead’ – should you update to Service Pack 3 despite the problems in the latest update? ” I’ve heard that Office 2003 SP2 is no longer supported, is that true? That’s a problem for my company because Service Pack 3 breaks access to many [...]

Office XP support expires Office XP drops off the edge of the Microsoft support cliffside It’s more than ten years since Office XP was unleashed to the public. That means Microsoft will stop supporting the software from 11 July 2011. As far as Microsoft support is concerned, Office XP will be no more, it will [...]

Office 365 comes with the option to rent Office 2010 software – is that a good choice? For the most part, Office 365 is a collection of cloud based services in somewhat bewildering combinations but there’s also the option to rent/subscribe for the Office software suite to be installed on your computer. The big question [...]

Enterprises Should Be Diligent When Licensing Microsoft Office 365 Full story: Gartner Gartner believes that Office 365, like many SaaS products, lacks some key contractual protections.

PowerPoint Ban: Swiss Party Looking to Oust Microsoft PowerPoint Full story: The Epoch Times A Swiss political party is basing its entire platform on banning Microsoft PowerPoint, calling themselves the Anti-PowerPoint Party, APPP.