While you won’t be seeing it on retail shelves just yet, Microsoft has flicked the Office 2010 switch on MSDN and Technet. This morning, the beta version was finally replaced with the RTM and both 32 and 64-bit downloads are now available. The actual Office 2010 page on Microsoft’s site seems to be undergoing some [...]
One of the big announcements at Facebook’s f8 developer conference was Facebook Docs, a Facebook-powered version of Microsoft Web Office. Facebook Docs will let users create, upload and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, right on Facebook. It was created in collaboration with Microsoft’s Fuse Labs, and the uploading system was based on Facebook’s existing [...]
Live SkyDrive is an awesome service. 25GB of web storage for free? Yeah, that sounds good to me. Sure, the 50MB per file limit is a little bit of a downside but it’s still a great place to store documents, music, and photos. Heck, if you tell an app like 7zip to chunk big files [...]
OpenOffice.org is a free and open source alternative to Microsoft Office. It includes a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation utility, database builder, and math and drawing apps. This week the OpenOffice.org team launched version 3.2 which features a number of updates including: Improved startup speed Support for Microsoft Office 2007 files Encryption support for Microsoft [...]
A couple of days ago the second beta of Office 2011 for Mac OS X leaked. I didn’t want to report it immediately because it’s always a little bit dangerous to download pre-release software, especially from infamous torrent sites… But enough people have now tried it — and apparently it’s awesome! The Boy Genius Report [...]
You’re probably aware, from the flurry of mobile-centric news, that the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has exposed some great new developments in the world of smartphones. This bit of news, from the creators of the BlackBerry, isn’t exactly ‘sexy’, but it could be great news if you own, or work for, a small- or [...]
Get it while it’s hot! Office and Windows XP Professional users can now upgrade to the latest and greatest Microsoft software suites with 50% off the retail price. Bear in mind this offer is definitely aimed at businesses as it requires Microsoft’s Open Value Subscription system, where you pay for your licenses in cheap yearly [...]
Purchasing software for your business can take a pretty big bite out of your budget, but finding programs that you’re actually allowed to use on a home business computer can be tricky. There’s a lot of free software out there, but much of it is only free for personal use — and you can’t use [...]
In just four months, Microsoft will release Office 2010, and with it changes the entire outlook of Web apps and cloud computing. Driven by the newbie president of Microsoft’s Business Division, Stephen Elop is performing the greatest about-face for the largest-profit-producing software suite ever — Office produced a profit of $19 billion dollars last year, [...]
In case you aren’t familiar with it, the Pomodoro Technique is a time management system. The original book by Francesco Cirillo has been extremely popular since its publication in the early 1990s and it’s now available as a free PDF download [Google Viewer link]. The technique is simple and involves setting up 25-minute intervals for [...]
