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OfficeRecovery to Repair Corrupted Microsoft Office Files On...

Data recovery tool provider OfficeRecovery has launched cloud-based online service that significantly cuts the time from encountering a file corruption disaster to complete recovery. The service provides a simple form to upload a corrupte [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft's Windows 8 Developer Preview: First Look

Microsoft has offered its Developer Preview of its upcoming Windows 8 to the world. This early glimpse of the operating system, while nowhere near finished, offers a one-of-a-kind perspective into Microsoft’s thinking when it comes [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

An Inside Look at Cloud-Based Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft is not taking its move into cloud computing lightly. Office 365--the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant's formal entry into the cloud market--provides web-based versions of Microsoft Office software classics like Word, Exce [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft's Windows 8 Makes Strong First Impression

You won't typically read about a product in this column many months ahead of its presumed launch. But when that product, however early, is the next version of Windows — and so radically different from the familiar operating syst [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.1.3/2008 12.1.3/2004 11.6.5

Microsoft has released a trio of updates for Office for Mac 2004, 2008, and 2011. The Office 2004 update and the Office 2008 update, versions 11.6.5 and 12.1.3 respectively, address security issues that allow an attacker to overwrite the [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes Office Flaws

Microsoft has used its September Patch Tuesday release to repair fixed 15 vulnerabilities across five security bulletins. After accidentally publicising the patch details a few days early last week, Microsoft officially released the secur [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Google, Microsoft cloud crashes: Is this the new normal?

Purveyors of cloud computing can promise users a lot of advantages, but one thing they can’t brag about is uptime. In recent days, both Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365 suffered outages, adding to a string of incidents in which [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Office 365, Hotmail and SkyDrive hit by outage

A new month and another outage for Microsoft's Office 365 cloud service. This time it had company as Hotmail and SkyDrive were also downed by the same DNS (Domain Name System) issue. Luckily for Europe, outages started in the middl [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft online services hit by major failure

Hotmail, Office 365 and Skydrive were among the services affected. Microsoft was still analysing the cause of the problem on Friday morning, but said it appeared to be related to the internet's DNS address system. Such a major prob [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Office apps coming to Symbian smartphones

Symbian’s days may be numbered, but Nokia has promised to continue supporting the operating system through 2016, even as it gets ready to start releasing smartphones with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 in the future. But apparent [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Analyst predicts major Microsoft Office price drop

Stock market prognosticating company Trefis specializes in predicting stock prices by analyzing a company's major components and calculating how much of the company's stock price is attributable to each piece. Their recent take on [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

What are the best alternatives to Microsoft Office?

Purchasing my new Windows 7 PC was a pretty bad experience, even though I am a reasonably experienced computer user. It must be dreadful for those buying a PC for the first time. The first week is spent fielding barrages of updates from M [...]

Posted On : Sep, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps More Different Than The Sa...

Over the past several years, one of the most-watched, and yet least substantial, business application rivalries has been that between Microsoft and Google. In one corner, we ve had Microsoft, with its lineup of ubiquitous, category-defini [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

New Lexis for Microsoft Office Enhancements Feature More Eff...

Lexis Nexis a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions, today announced significant new efficiency innovations to the core capabilities of its Lexis® for Microsoft® Office legal solution, as well as new functi [...]