Apple and Microsoft have had a really interesting relationship down through the years, so this week's Trivia Tuesday is taking a look at how the two tech titans loved, hated, and helped one another. More...
From the information we have seen it seems that Microsoft could skip right over Adobe's PDF software, allowing users to edit PDFs and read them within the Word 2013 UI. More...
Ashampoo Office 2010 is a powerful, efficient, yet easy to handle office software that serves the needs of both private users and companies. Create extensive documents fast and with total ease More...
A fake 'Microsoft Word 2012' app has appeared on the iOS App Store, selling for $9.99 and promising to 'All features of the MAC version on your device.' The problem? It doesn't, of course. More...
Today is Easter Sunday and to celebrate we put the spotlight on just a few of the many Easter eggs that have been put into various software products from Microsoft over the years. More...
Kingsoft Writer Free 2012 is an inexpensive yet powerful word processor program with the qualities matching Microsoft Word and includes a wide range of easy to use features. The easy to use user More...
Microsoft seems to have thrown in the towel on Microsoft Office, that is when it comes to validating your Office program to verify its legitimacy. Late last week, according to zdnet.com and confirmed through a... More...
Microsoft has sent out invitations to lucky participants for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1. For the lucky ones that actually receive an email about the Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 SP1 beta,... More...
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that they have surpassed 20 million users on their Office Web Apps. Microsoft released their web apps in the summer, which included Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft was largely unchallenged in... More...
Microsoft's next big version of its office suite officially goes on sale today in retail stores across the world. The highly anticipated release of Office 2010 has been through months of beta testing since November... More...
As Neowin reported two weeks ago, Microsoft has been working on a new social website called Docs.com. Built using Microsoft Office 2010, users can upload, create, edit and share Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents... More...
Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows has already RTM (Release to Manufacturer) and is available on TechNet and MSDN, available in retail in June, but Office for Mac 2011 will be in stores this holiday season,... More...
TheNextWeb is reporting that at Facebook's F8 developer conference, Microsoft and Facebook announced the beta release of Docs.com. The site is built on, what seems to be, a stripped down version of Microsoft's upcoming Office... More...
Boy Genius has posted some early screenshots of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac. The screenshots reveal development on Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2011. Much like Microsoft Office 2010 appearance, Office 2011 for Mac includes... More...
According to BBC News, Microsoft has lost its second appeal to overrule the $240 million dollar fine imposed by a US court for copyright infringement. The initial ruling dictated that Microsoft pay up, as well... More...
Office 2011 for Mac computers is set to launch by the end of the year, just in time for the Christmas 2010 holiday season. Office 2011 for Mac will bring ribbon support for applications. The... More...
Alex Dubec from the Office Trustworthy Computing Performance team, posted an update on the Office 2010 system requirements for users. One of the major problems faced by the Office 2010 team... More...
This Beta 1 release of the Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Word 2007 provides authors of scientific articles with the ability to read and write files from Word 2007 into the XML format used by... More...
"w00t", an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tuesday by the publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary. Massachusetts-based Merriam-Webster said "w00t" -- typically spelled with two zeros... More...
The Microsoft Math Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 makes it easy to create graphs, perform calculations, and solve for variables with equations created in Word. The Microsoft Math Add-in adds computational and graphing capabilities... More...
Another Patch Tuesday, another patched vulnerability pairs up with an exploit in the wild. This Tuesday, Microsoft issued a patch that closed a critical vulnerability in multiple editions of its popular word processor, including Word... More...
Adobe has joined a growing list of firms offering web-based alternatives to conventional office programs. The software developer has acquired the online word processor Buzzword, which allows users to create and share text documents on... More...
Microsoft is killing off a feature in Office 2003 that the company said helped save time, but also ran the risk of exposing confidential information. As part of Service Pack 3 of Office 2003, which... More...
Google has acknowledged that a dictionary of Chinese words used with one of its recently released software tools came from a third party. Google's Pinyin Input Method Editor (IME) "was built leveraging some non-Google database... More...
Just hours after a Microsoft security manager said that the week's updates had patched all in-the-wild threats against Office applications, the company late yesterday acknowledged that another bug in Word is being used by hackers... More...
A Microsoft-sponsored open-source project is expected on Friday to release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF. Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying... More...
Microsoft's security response team has launched an investigation into reports of a zero-day attack against a previously unknown vulnerability affecting its ever-present Microsoft Word program. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker said it's aware of "very... More...
If Microsoft's 1976 was all about "hobbyists" and "Altair," then its buzzwords for 2006 were things such as "connected entertainment," "interoperability," "Zune," and "Windows Vista." And don't forget those "priorities" -- as in the ones... More...
Exploit code for a third, unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word has been posted on the Internet, adding to the software maker's struggles to keep up with gaping holes in its popular word processing program. The... More...
There is a second confirmed zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word software program that is being targeted by unknown attackers. According to a US-CERT advisory, the latest bug is a memory corruption issue that occurs when... More...
Microsoft has issued a Security Advisory that warns of exploits for a previously unknown (zero day) hole in various versions of Microsoft Word. According to an e-mail statement from the company's public... More...
An unpatched Microsoft Word 2000 vulnerability is being actively exploited by hackers to spread malware. The MDropper-Q Trojan downloader, recently detected by Symantec, takes advantage of the unspecified zero-day vuln to load other malware onto... More...
Security experts are warning of a critical vulnerability affecting users of Microsoft Word XP and Word 2003. To quote the SANS Internet Storm Center report: Quote - Emails were sent to... More...
Joe Friend has posted a rather interesting entry on his site, covering Microsoft's Office 12 Blog feature: Stop, don't jump to the end of this post to push the comment button yet. I'm not an... More...
Michael Robertson, of MP3.com and Lindows - eek, we mean Linspire - 'fame' has today announced AJAXWord, an online Word processing app. Robertson claims that the company has developed... More...
The New Oxford Dictionary has named "podcast" its 2005 word of the year, capping off what has been nothing short of a phenomenal year for Apple's iPod. While some critics believe that Apple is... More...
The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand has granted Microsoft its controversial patent over the use of XML in word processing documents, but the chair of the Open Source Society, Peter Harrison, says he will... More...
Please note that this is likely only to be an issue with MacAlly & Acomdata external hard drives, and that a simple firmware update will fix the problem. Apple has released an... More...
HexView has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an... More...
Macworld UK has learned of a dangerous malware that deletes the Home folder on a Mac. The file is cunningly disguised as a Word 2004 for Mac demo – from the forthcoming Office 2004 for... More...
The Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification provides a format for text and graphics interchange that can be used with different output devices, operating environments, and operating systems. Version 1.8 of the specification contains the latest... More...
You'd think the people who make Microsoft Word understand enough about the program to avoid embarrassing themselves with unintended disclosures of internal information. You'd be wrong. Michal Zalewski, a 23-year-old computer security specialist in Warsaw,... More...
Quick Info File Name: office2003-kb830000-client-enu.exe - Download Size: 1670 KB - 7323 KB - Date Published: 1/27/2004 - Version: 1 Overview Under certain circumstances Word 2003 can become unresponsive... More...
Did you know that Microsoft are the longest standing developer group for mac products outside of apple? How ironic! " In 1984, Microsoft's then-CEO Bill Gates was quoted as saying, "the Mac is... More...
Microsoft Word documents that use the software's built-in password protection to avoid unauthorized editing can easily be modified using a relatively simple hack that was recently published on a security Web site. ... More...
Microsoft has hit back at critics of Word's password-protect feature, which the company has admitted is not safe from hackers. The tool is intended to make collaboration easier, Microsoft told ZDNet UK, explaining that users... More...
Selling politics to today's youth is no easy task. But while Iain Duncan Smith, the Conservative leader, flails in a search for youth- orientated policies, it seems Tom Watson, Labour MP for West Bromwich East,... More...
Remember when you weren't allowed to use 'remember' in your MSN Messenger nickname? Same thing with words like 'admin', 'webmaster' or almost any nasty four-letter-word. Well, it seems like those words aren't blocked from your... More...
Quick Info File Name: sounds97.exe - Download Size: 417 KB - Date Published: 4/11/2003 - Version: 97 Overview You can install these sounds to have fun audio cues play as you... More...
MAN! is it good to be back! "Microsoft is investigating a security vulnerability with Word 97 which allows attackers to filch documents from victim's PCs using a craft social engineering attack. ... More...