Blogs Posts in Office category; 386 blog posts

Wow! These young girls are Microsoft Office specialists

The partnership between New Horizons Systems and Vivian Fowler Memorial Girls College, sealed six months ago has yielded fruits. As a result, six young pupils have become proficient in the use of Microsoft Office PowerPoint, with one of t [...]

Posted On : May, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

With So Many Alternatives, Why Does Microsoft Office Still R...

It's been more than two decades since Microsoft's now-ubiquitous suite of office productivity software was released. Although we've seen numerous free or low-cost alternatives arrive on the scene since then - OpenOffice.org, G [...]

Posted On : May, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft: No Date for Mac Office Patch

Mac Office users awaiting a fix for an "important" PowerPoint bug will have to exercise patience because there's no patch date in sight. While Microsoft released the MS11-036 patch for Windows users this Tuesday, the softwar [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft leaves Mac Office users in the lurch, says researc...

Microsoft yesterday told Mac Office users it doesn't yet have a fix for a PowerPoint bug that it patched for Windows customers. "Security updates for Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, and Open XML F [...]

Posted On : May, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Office Live Hit by 'Intermittent' Access Issues

Buckle up, because there's turbulence in the cloud. With its transition to Office 365, Microsoft has said that its soon-to-be-grounded Office Live service has struggled with access for its small business customers. "This past we [...]

Posted On : May, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Office 365 has 'huge quarter' as Microsoft announces 13% rev...

Microsoft Office 365 has had a "huge quarter" and has exceeded everyone's expectations as more companies look to use the software. That is according to Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at Microsoft, who said that the cl [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Office 2010 takes on all comers

Ask most people to name a productivity suite and chances are they'll say Microsoft Office, but they might also name one of the numerous competitors that have sprung up. None have completely displaced the Microsoft monolith, but they&# [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

The Future of Microsoft Office

Productivity software forms the crux of daily tasks for many of today’s workers, no matter what field they find their employment in. The reigning king of productivity suites, Microsoft Office, is the market participant to beat, and [...]

Posted On : Apr, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft goes headfirst into the cloud with Office 365

Office 365 is a Web-based version of Microsoft's line of office software. It is divided into two major segments. One is a stripped-down, Web-based version of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. The other is the means to int [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Puts Spotlight on Office 365 Cloud Partners, MSPs

At last. Microsoft is starting to shine a bright spotlight on managed services providers (MSPs) and channel partners that can assist Office 365 customer deployments. As you may recall, Microsoft greatly expanded the Office 365 beta proce [...]

Posted On : Apr, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Releases Office 365 Beta

We recently did an article about Google launching Pagination for Google Docs which helps users to read and write their articles through a cloud based system. Shortly after this, Microsoft released its own strategy for cloud based computi [...]

Posted On : Apr, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Office 365 Beta Opens for Business: What's Inside

Now anyone can try Office 365, Microsoft's cloud productivity package for businesses. The service opened Sunday night for beta testing, coming a step closer to its final launch, which will occur sometime later this year. Office [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Releases A Massive Patch, Fixes Vulnerabilities

The Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities are divided among the various versions still supported by Microsoft. Their severity rating lists critical as the most important fixes, with low being the least important. The breakdown of vulnerabili [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Says Office 2010 Service Pack 1 on Track for Summe...

Microsoft is on schedule to deliver Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 sometime this summer. Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 SP1 will add new functionality and roll up all of the interim cumulative and public [...]