office in microsoft 2007 in news
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News The International Organization for Standardization has thrown out four appeals against its ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. Andy Updegrove, whose ConsortiumInfo blog provides commentary on various standardisation... [19 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Office applications have received critical patches from Microsoft this month. Three critical vulnerabilities also lie in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, which could allow an attacker to completely control a system. [13 Aug 2008]
Microsoft warns of ActiveX attack targetting Access
News The ActiveX control, which allows a user to view an Access report snapshot without having the standard or run-time versions of Microsoft Office Access, ships with the standalone Snapshot Viewer and with all supported versions of Microsoft Office... [08 Jul 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready to take on Microsoft Office. The software is free, with unlimited technical support for around $25 per user, and it supports the ODF document format... [09 Jun 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues. Microsoft announced on Wednesday it will support ODF version 1.1 in the release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2... [23 May 2008]
Microsoft pledges Office 2007 ODF support
News Microsoft said yesterday that starting some time next year it will make it easier for users of an open-source rival to work with Microsoft Office. Erich Anderson, vice president and general counsel for Europe, said in a telephone interview... [22 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News Last October, Becta went to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) with two Microsoft-related complaints, one regarding school subscription-licensing arrangements and the other regarding the lack of full interoperability between recent products, such as... [14 May 2008]
Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft
News Microsoft's Mac unit is set to disclose that copies of the new Office for Mac 2008 are flying off the shelves at three times the rate of its predecessor. That feature was in Office 2004 but was pulled in the current version as Microsoft worked to... [13 May 2008]
OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing
News The suite will be able to read files created with the Mac-specific version of Microsoft Office 2007 and 2008 and will also support existing read-write functions for other types of Microsoft Office formats. [09 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to tests run by a document standards... [21 Apr 2008]
Microsoft strikes back at open source critics
News Microsoft said, however, its new interoperability principles operate across its high-volume products: Windows Vista (including the .Net Framework), Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint... [18 Mar 2008]
Microsoft boosts stability of Office 2008 for Mac
News Microsoft has released its first update to Office 2008 for Mac, fixes that should boost stability and performance in some areas, while closing some security holes. After some delay, Microsoft released Office 2008 in January. [12 Mar 2008]
Network optimisation market speeds up
News Riverbed claims Office 2007-based email traffic can now be delivered in one-tenth of the time but, as with all WAN optimisation technologies, that figure depends on bandwidth utilisation and the type of data being sent. [26 Feb 2008]
Office updates for Mac? There's good news and bad
News Microsoft offered Mac fans both good news and bad news yesterday, and it all depends on which version of Office for Mac the user has. Microsoft said in a blog posting: "The team is mobilised to get Office 2008 updates out as soon as possible. [22 Feb 2008]
Microsoft to embrace open-source and says won't sue
News Microsoft said the pledge will ultimately extend to Windows Vista, the .NET Framework, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange Server 2007 and Office SharePoint Server 2007. Protocols for interoperability with Office 2007 will... [22 Feb 2008]
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