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November 14th, 2008

New Help Files for Microsoft Products… Still Suck?

Image: Screen capture of Microsoft Update website
I’m working through my weekly updates and scans on my system today and I came across a list of optional software updates that were available for a few of my Microsoft Office 2007 applications.
This is normally good news, but here’s my question. The Help information available in just […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 7th, 2008

What is Microsoft "Albany"

Has anyone else been hearing information about a new product entering beta (or is it alpha) testing?
A recent article by Mary Jo Foley shared a few different options of what it could be:

the latest version of Microsoft Works that may or may not be advertisement funded
a new package of “Authoring” components that would include Word, […]

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March 28th, 2007

Office 2007 Good… and slow

I’ve been using Office 2007 now just about exclusively since the initial beta versions have been available for use. I will say that I love the new versions of each application. Similarly to other users, I still find myself searching through some options to find the task that I’ve done before, but am only doing […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments