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News At last month's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft also confirmed it would offer web-based versions of its Office applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. For perhaps the first time... [18 Nov 2008]
No offline access to Microsoft's Office in a cloud
News In an interview Monday, Microsoft senior vice president Chris Capossela said that, at least initially, the browser based versions of Excel, Word and PowerPoint won't have an offline mode. Microsoft's forthcoming Office... [18 Nov 2008]
Microsoft building an Office in the cloud
News After years of questioning the value of web-based productivity applications, Microsoft confirmed Tuesday it will offer new versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint that can run from within a standard web browser. [29 Oct 2008]
How global computing grid could save the world
News According to Foster, grids excel when users need to bring together a lot of resources to work on a problem in a timely manner. A global grid of computers could one day be used to protect the world against disease... [20 Oct 2008]
Queen Mary Uni ditches Excel, makes student plans with IBM
News The software replaces a system based on a set of 64 Excel spreadsheets and will have a significant effect on financial planning for the university, according to its head of business systems, Ken Burt. [16 Oct 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Four vulnerabilities in Excel have been addressed, as detailed in Security Bulletin MS08-043. The vulnerabilities in indexing validation and array, record parsing, and credential caching could allow an attacker to... [13 Aug 2008]
IT teacher applications continue to decline
News Speaking last month, a leading academic called for the IT curriculum in schools to be overhauled as he claims "boring" ICT classes which focus on Word and Excel are turning teenagers off IT as a career. [01 Jul 2008]
Revealed: What students think of tech work
News Industry sector skills council, e-skills UK, and a leading UK academic recently criticised the teaching of IT in secondary schools and called for a radical overhauling of the curriculum, warning kids are being put off tech in droves by... [23 Jun 2008]
"Boring" school IT curriculum slammed
News Professor Lachlan MacKinnon, head of the school of computing and creative technologies at the University of Abertay, Dundee, has called for a radical overhauling of the curriculum in secondary schools as "boring" ICT classes which focus... [17 Jun 2008]
Office Excel at risk from attack
News Microsoft has issued a security advisory that malicious attackers are targeting versions of its Office Excel with vulnerabilities. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 with Service Pack 2, Excel... [17 Jan 2008]
Vista - businesses not convinced
News And, while Linux might be free, there could be a lot of effort involved in transferring things like Word and Excel macros, he warned. Almost a year on from the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista, only 13 per cent of... [26 Nov 2007]
Spammers switching on to YouTube?
News Mark Sunner, chief security analyst for MessageLabs, said: "The MP3 spam tactic is a natural progression for cyber criminals following runs of image, PDF and Excel junk mail earlier this year. Email security company... [30 Oct 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News We have to run Office and we have to allow Word, RTF, PowerPoint and Excel files through. Security vendor MesssageLabs reported that 1,100 emails containing malware-infected RTF attachments have been recorded over a... [26 Sep 2007]
Cruise line gets ship-shape with workforce management tool
News Up to now, the company got by with an Excel spreadsheet but according to Royal Caribbean UK and Eire business manager, Marcus Lyall, the 50-seat contact centre has grown to the point where it could no longer be... [16 Aug 2007]
Spam surge emanating from the Far East
News Other forms of spam on the rise include PDF spam, Excel and ZIP-file spam. Although Excel and ZIP-file spam numbers remain low, Symantec's report stated that finding new attachment formats is an... [14 Aug 2007]
