The News Review:
- Unveiling Excel 2007
- UK event : March MMMUG meeting – at Microsoft and about Windows Mobile
- Government Keys Into the Mobile-Computing Fray
- IT managers turn to training to reduce internal threats
- Quick Take: Prepare for Desktop 2.0
- Hackers selling IDs for $14 Symantec says
- Business New Haven
Unveiling Excel 2007
TheStreet.com – TheStreet.com (subscription) – Mar 19, 2007
But Bill Gates knew early what a spreadsheet should be — he was a numbers guy after all. And when ffice 97 came to market that was pretty much that: Excel became the dominant player growing to well over 450 million active seats today so says the company. Now a decade later Microsoft has given ffice Excel 2007 its biggest makeover yet one that brings the code to a new position inside the business environment. “We really tried to make it as easy to use as we could” says Mor Hezi senior product manager for the ffice Marketing team at Microsoft. “We want everybody to use every single feature. To simplify this Excel Microsoft has jettisoned its traditional menu architecture and replaced it with the ribbon a graphical tab that runs across the top of the screen. The ribbon has been very controversial… There is an excellent “Format as Table” function that not only takes the drudgery out of jazzing up format it also brings fancy display functions once only found in Access or other reporting packages straight to Excel. The numbers may not be right but they will look right. In this case I turned Mister Softee’s balance sheet and income statement into a nice two-tone light-green table in just a few clicks no PowerPoint necessary. And I made some neat charts that broke out by-unit performance on the fly. Mac ModeMac users — in yet another display of the goofy needling that goes on between Microsoft and Apple (AAPL) — will have to wait for the new Excel 2007. Microsoft loves to delay the release of the Apple riffs; the company says it will serve up the updated version of Excel along with the entire ffice package in the second half of this year. Apple users wanting a taste of the new Excel today can load the Windows operating system on their machines assuming they are running a modern Mac with an Intel chip.
UK event : March MMMUG meeting – at Microsoft and about Windows Mobile
msmobiles.com – Mar 19, 2007
]The meeting will be held on Tuesday 27th March. Directions to the venue can be found below. The meeting will be a mixture of PowerPoint Demos and Discussions and perhaps most exciting I have no doubt that Jason will be able to bring along some New Mobile Devices running Windows Mobile 6 to show us! There will also be a Q&A time at the end of the meeting. The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: (although I may tweak the timings slightly) 18:00 – 18:30 Arrival 18:30 – 18:35 Introduction to speakers and the aims of the group 18:35 – 19:30 1st session; led by Jason Langridge MS An introduction to Windows Mobile 6. 19:30 – 19:50 Food! 19:50 – 20:45 2nd session; led by Jason Langridge MS General discussion around mobility how people use it and where the technology is going in the next few years.
Government Keys Into the Mobile-Computing Fray
CRN – Mar 19, 2007
Navy develop a mobile-inspection solution to replace the Military Sealift Command’s traditional paper-based system increasing work efficiency by 50 percent. With this kind of track record it made sense to market the products to other segments of government. The Census project is the most ambitious one yet involving more than 500000 mobile handsets running on Windows Mobile 5. 0 from Microsoft Mobility. The handsets feature pocket versions of Word Excel PowerPoint.
IT managers turn to training to reduce internal threats
SearchWinIT.com – Mar 20, 2007
mspx> Security Awareness Toolkit. IT managers kept telling Microsoft that internal risks were a growing problem said Lori Woehler Microsoft’s director of security outreach in the Trustworthy Computing Group. “We’ve found that security awareness programs can be one of the most effective and low-cost ways to address such risks and so we developed guidance and templates to do just that” Woehler said. The toolkit includes security awareness presentations for non-IT employees and templates for brochures email invitations newsletters posters and PowerPoint presentations. There are also sample templates that can be used to train IT staff she said. Companies offer training packagesSymantec Corp… IT managers kept telling Microsoft that internal risks were a growing problem said Lori Woehler Microsoft’s director of security outreach in the Trustworthy Computing Group. “We’ve found that security awareness programs can be one of the most effective and low-cost ways to address such risks and so we developed guidance and templates to do just that” Woehler said. The toolkit includes security awareness presentations for non-IT employees and templates for brochures email invitations newsletters posters and PowerPoint presentations. There are also sample templates that can be used to train IT staff she said. Companies offer training packagesSymantec Corp. and Mission Viejo Calif. -based Foundstone Inc.
Quick Take: Prepare for Desktop 2.0
fool.com – Mar 20, 2007
But today’s Microsoft Word isn’t much different than the version I used a decade ago to hunt and peck my way through client reports. f course Google (Nasdaq:… So instead of trying yet another browser Adobe is seeking to make the PCs we know and tolerate do more. r better yet call it smart.
Hackers selling IDs for $14 Symantec says
ITworld.com – Mar 19, 2007
Symantec documented 12 zero-day vulnerabilities in the period from June to December 2006. nly one was found in its two prior six-month reporting periods the company said. Hackers have exploited some of those vulnerabilities by creating malicious documents in Microsoft ffice and other software said llie Whitehouse a security architect at Symantec. A malicious Word or Excel document when attached to a spam e-mail has a greater chance of being opened by someone since it may appear legitimate and be targeted at an employee of a specific company. While security software programs will often block executable programs attached to e-mail common ffice documents are allowed to go through Whitehouse said. “A business isn’t going to say ‘We will no longer accept ffice documents received via email’” Whitehouse said. “I think productivity would go through the floor at that point… The attack is almost invisible to the user apart from a flicker on the screen before the Word document opens. “ffice documents — PowerPoint presentations Excel spreadsheets — and graphics like JPEGs aren’t necessarily considered malicious file formats so the user is more inclined to open them” Whitehouse said. IDG News Service I like it!EmailPrintShare.
Business New Haven
Business New Haven – Mar 19, 2007
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