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Rare Bigfoot sighting, er ah, Office crash

You know, there are certain staples in the world of Microsoft bashing. The publicly-located informational flat-screen display showing a blue screen. The jokes about what it would be like if Microsoft made cars. You know, the usual. But one thing you don’t see very often is Microsoft Office crashes. Well...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 11-11-2008
Microsoft to debut next Office at PDC

This isn’t exactly news , but what the heck: Windows 7 and Windows Cloud may be the main attractions at Microsoft's upcoming Professional Developers Conference, but the next version of Office will also be on show. 'Office 14', as the product is code-named, will be discussed at next week's...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-22-2008
Office 2007 Filter Pack for Windows Desktop Search

This one looks interesting : It basically lets Windows Desktop Search (part of Windows Vista, and XP when updated) index the contents of Microsoft Office documents: Brief Description This download will install and register IFilters with the Microsoft Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-21-2008
OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available

I like the idea of an alternative Microsoft Office suite a lot. That said, I’m not sure a huge fan of OpenOffice.org, and God knows I’ve tried. It just seems big, slow, and bloated to me, and they’ve moved too slowly to make it work like the underlying OS. What I’d like to see is something small, fast...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-13-2008
GoDaddy.com Launches New Hosted Microsoft Exchange

Here we go: This is, I believe, the first reasonably priced hosted Exchange service. Here’s the official press release: GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain registrar and largest hosting provider in North America, and Microsoft Corp. today announced that GoDaddy.com is delivering mobile and group...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-06-2008
Windows Cloud OS … And some new Office Live stuff

I’ve got a report coming today in WinInfo about Microsoft’s Windows Cloud OS plans: Microsoft Confirms 'Windows Cloud' OS At its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) event later this month, Microsoft will publicly unveil its 'Windows Cloud' Internet-based operating system, the company...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 10-02-2008
Taming Microsoft Word 2007’s File Associations and Document Windows, Part Two

Rafael continues his exploration of what I consider to be a very real and silly Word bug, this time providing instructions for how to fix the problem : Due to the way Word was designed, there doesn’t appear to be an easy solution to preserve the use of the DDE command and keep window z-order intact...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-04-2008
Cloud computing vs. Software + Services; Google Docs vs. Office Live Workspace

Mary Jo Foley has a blog post about how Microsoft's Office Live Workspace service will be leaving beta by the end of the year . She does a good job, as always, of putting this in context. But I'd like to offer up a few comments, not so much in disagreement of anything, but more in along the lines...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-04-2008
Over one million users sign up for Office Live Workspace

From Microsoft: Only six months after public availability, the beta release of Microsoft Office Live Workspace has reached the one million customer sign-up milestone. Office Live Workspace beta was among the first entries in the new wave of online services in Microsoft’s software plus services...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-03-2008
Office 2007 Home and Student for $99

Just a heads-up if you're in the US and looking for such a thing: Circuit City is selling Office 2007 Home and Student this week for $99. It's normally $149. The big deal, of course, is that you can install it on up to three home computers. (On the flipside, it does not include Outlook.) They're...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-17-2008

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