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June 13th, 2008

Copying Images Out of Outlook

I was reminded today of a real annoyance of mine when I’m trying to work with Outlook. Somewhat frequently in my week I receive an e-mail with a graphic or image in it that I need to do some editing. It’s not really any serious editing that needs to be done, just a notation […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

March 18th, 2008

Help! Can’t Open a Microsoft Publisher File

Have I shared recently (or ever) how much Microsoft Office Publisher irritates me? First there’s the file size of the end resulting file itself. Those suckers are massive. I used to get the files regularly from web clients and their questions would be:

Can you open a Publisher file?
How can I e-mail this to you?

When […]

By Jason Bean -- 4 comments

September 19th, 2007

Lotus Symphony - Is Microsoft Worried

Big announcement from IBM that they’ve now launched a free version of an office productivity suite named Lotus Symphony. Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org and the Open Document format.
David Berlind reports that Microsoft quickly followed up IBM’s announcement with alerts to various news outlets to give them a chance to hear Microsoft’s version of the […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

August 31st, 2007

Should Microsoft Stop Selling and Just Rent Their Software?

An article by Dana Blankenhorn on ZDNet.com has an interesting question she’s posing. At least I think this is a question she’s posing. Her article actually states that Microsoft should be afraid of open-source software, but I’m not sure that’s actually the case.
What they may need to be concerned with is a change in the […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

August 22nd, 2007

Back-to-School With the Right Stuff

It’s that time of year again. The kids are heading back to school and parents are rejoicing. It reminds me of that commercial with the guy jumping and skipping down the aisles with the cart to the music, “…it’s the most wonderful time, of the year…”
Microsoft has an article on their website with a list […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 21st, 2007

Are You An Office Genius?

UPDATE: Looks like I missed the boat on this one. The deadline for this was back at the end of June. I need to update my e-mail address for some of my Microsoft newsletters to Gmail. Is that ironic?
Do you really know what you’re doing with Office? Are you the one everyone comes to […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

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