Tag: 2007

EverNote is the note-taking program we have featured here on Download Squad a few times before. It can be compared to OneNote from Microsoft in some ways. EverNote's approach is a bit more simplistic, but still very usable and has good integration with Firefox and Outlook. The EverNote 1.5 beta is available for a free 60 day trial, after which the program costs $34.95. The program will revert to ...

Microsoft's Student software seems to get better every year, and helps kids (even college kids) get better grades by pooling resources and keeping homework easy. The product covers math, helps with foreign languages, helps with papers, and doing research. ZDNet reviewer Laurie Bouck says that the new version (2007) requires Microsoft Office to use all its features, which is unfortunate, but ...

Former Weblogs, Inc. blogger Marc Orchant (now of ZDNet fame) alerted me to the fact that Microsoft is giving a bit on the decision to make the new 2007 Office system (still a small "s") ribbon interface the only option. Microsoft is going to provide the ribbon as an optional auto-hide feature that you can use if you want to. I must admit that I hated the ribbon at first, but then used it for a ...

How many clicks does it take to make a Word document? Maybe we should ask Mr. Owl. You know, from the Tootsie-Pop commercial. Let's see one, two, three, four... Well, since Mr. Owl isn't around, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (our fine four fendered friend) isn't so talkative and good with the math, I figured I would take a stab at it. If you have seen even screenshots of the Microsoft 2007 Office ...

By now you've probably seen a few screenshots of the new "ribbon" interface that will replace the menubar and toolbars in Microsoft Office 2007. It doesn't seem so mysterious to me, but then I'm not really Office's average use case. If you want a better idea of what using Office's new interface is really like, I recommend this streaming preview video (direct link to WMV stream) that ...

Following close behind the unsurprising delay of Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 has also gotten the pushed back, according to Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley. Like Vista, Office 2007 was expected to ship late this year, and like Vista, we can now expect it in January of next year. Microsoft says the delay is not a "slip in schedule," but "a change in delivery for the benefit ...

MSNBC reports that Microsoft has announced the different flavors that Office 2007, formerly called Office 12, will be available in. On the menu are Office Professional Plus for corporate users which integrates SharePoint, Communicator, and some sort of web/intranet portal, the "premium" Office Enterprise which incorporates the Groove real-time collaboration software Microsoft acquired ...