Tag: MICROSOFTOFFICE

Dealing with spam in Microsoft Outlook used to be a pretty big problem. Outlook has had the "Junk Mail" feature forever, but until Outlook 2003 it was pretty terrible at comprehensively eliminating spam from your inbox. Outlook 2003, however, is a different beast when it comes to spam detection and elimination. In fact, it's gotten so good that I no longer advocate running a third-party spam ...

Corel tends to take a back seat these days with their low-cost, small business alternative software, but they are still out there and moving steadily with their IPO this year. Corel Corp. just hit the news again with their recent acquisition of the makes of WinDVD, InterVideo, in a rumored $196 million deal. Corel is best known for their WordPerfect software which is up against Microsoft's Office, ...

In a move to join the massive open document communities, and to grab some additional business, Microsoft has announced support for the ODF formats through plug-ins and translators. Microsoft will create tools that will work to enable the communication between Microsoft Office Open XML formats and Open Document formats. The tools in question will be free to download, and licensed as open source ...

Last week Microsoft released Office 2007 Beta 2 to the world, and had somewhere over 500,000 downloads in the first two days. The primary reason for releasing this test version of the software so early is to get as much feedback from the Office using community as possible, soon enough that final product decisions can be made before it is released to manufacturing.  To that end, the Office ...

Chris Pratley is they guy that is in charge of OneNote at Microsoft, so when he talks about OneNote features, we listen. Today he's got a great post on his blog about the different ways in which OneNote 2007 and Outlook (both 2003 and 2007) are more tightly integrated than ever before. For those of you that haven't had the pleasure, OneNote is a dark corner of Microsoft Office that many people ...

Edward Tufte is a master of communication. In particular, his books on visual communication are classics, and should be standard readings for anyone in the field. Well I happened to find an essay on Tufte's site about PowerPoint, and specifically, how the slides used in a presentation on the dangers to the shuttle Columbia might have led to the death of its crew. Tufte analyzes the PowerPoint ...