June 13th, 2008
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 […]
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March 18th, 2008
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 […]
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September 19th, 2007
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 […]
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August 31st, 2007
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 […]
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August 22nd, 2007
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 […]
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July 21st, 2007
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 […]
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