The News Review:
- Mac Users Face Hurdles with New ffice Versions.
- Docs hint at hosted Microsoft ffice
- Windows Mobile 6: Not going to kill the blackberry yet…
- The Pointless ffice Converter Delay
- Avistar to Demonstrate Recently Released Video Collaboration Solution…
- Nokia E61i (with 3G and Wi-Fi)
- Email hits the road
Mac Users Face Hurdles with New ffice Versions.
Free with registration – eWeek – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 29, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 Ziff Davis Media Inc. With the introduction of the new ffice 2008 productivity suite for Mac S X planned for late 2007 companies that rely on Visual Basic for Applications scripts and macros on Macintosh and Windows clients will lose transparent cross-platform compatibility. This will happen because Microsoft is abandoning VBA script and macro support with the introduction of the new productivity suite. In addition the recently released ffice 2007 for Windows introduced a new default file format the XML (ffice pen XML). docx format which is not compatible with ffice 2003 on Windows and ffice 2004 on Mac S X. XML will be the default file format for ffice 2008 also. As a result Microsoft and others are scrambling to offer options to regain at least a limited degree of compatibility for future ffice users.
Docs hint at hosted Microsoft ffice
Computer Business Review – May 29, 2007
) of the Parties that are hosted by or running on a computer acting as a server for a connected client device”. Since neither company has such an offering on the market at present this clause implies that either Microsoft or Novell or both is working on such a service. Microsoft with its multibillion dollar ffice empire would be the more likely candidate. The idea of Microsoft offering hosted versions of ffice has been touted for at least the last 18 months ever since Google started offering similar services and Microsoft launched its own ffice Live site. ffice Live is not currently a hosted version of the client-side suite. Rather it offers web space and email at the low end and collaborative “workspaces” for document sharing at the higher end. But since the Live strategy was announced in late 2005 it has been generally considered a no-brainer that Microsoft would at some point start offering ffice in the usual meaning of the brand via the web… ne reason hosted ffice from Microsoft is considered inevitable is that Google has been making obvious plays for the market for at least a year. Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets service now part of Google Apps offers ffice-like collaborative word processing and spreadsheets functionality based on acquired and house-built technology. A Powerpoint-like service is believed next on the Google roadmap. Ray zzie the recently anointed successor to Bill Gates has in recent weeks made noises about “software and a service” re-coining the “software as a service” buzzword suggesting that a purely web-based play may not be the Microsoft strategy.
Windows Mobile 6: Not going to kill the blackberry yet…
InfoWorld – May 29, 2007
Though I should point out that if you mumble your contacts may get waken up by misdialed numbers. Voice dialing: not just contact list stuff but you can also voice dial individual digits for numbers not in your contact list. ffice Mobile: MS Word MS Excel and MS PowerPoint came with this upgrade. So now I have both one-note AND my most used MS ffice applications. Live Search: You REALLY want an unlimited data plan if you configure this cause it’s pretty habit forming to have a search bar on the phone desktop.
The Pointless ffice Converter Delay
Microsoft Watch – May 29, 2007
” Naturally?Existing ffice 2004 users are getting short-shrift treatment from Microsoft on two fronts: There is no full set of beta XML converters available now and there won’t be fully interoperable capabilities later on. Microsoft’s make-do solution isn’t exactly exhilarating. ppt) to ensure that the files can be robustly shared across platforms” Jones wrote two weeks ago. She gives good advice but tough considering ffice 2007 defaults to the new file formats when saving (Yes it can be switched).
Avistar to Demonstrate Recently Released Video Collaboration Solution…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 29, 2007
(NASDAQ:AVSR) will demonstrate its recently released desktop video collaboration solution during the Wainhouse Research Collaboration Summit 2007 to be held at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway in San Francisco June 5-7 2007. 1 increases deployment flexibility and ease-of-use for mobile workers and adds face-to-face collaboration to IBM Lotus Sametime and Microsoft ffice applications. What: Demonstration of Avistar Desktop Video Solution and Integrations with IBM Lotus Sametime and Microsoft ffice applications When: 1:00 p.
Nokia E61i (with 3G and Wi-Fi)
Hardware Zone – May 29, 2007
Beneath its cool (literally) exterior however is a multitude of business functions and hardware improvements that is all a button away to put you on the mobility highway. A Multi-tasking Secretary For all you office residents the new E61i boasts Quickword Quicksheet and Quickpoint applications. These arm business users to view edit and send Microsoft Word Excel and Powerpoint documents on its high-resolution display. Users can also synchronise information from sources previously used to transfer data to the Nokia E61i thereby ensuring data in both devices will always be kept up to date. The main difference between the new and the old is the recently introduced Nokia Team Suit which is fast becoming the signature function of Nokia’s E-series. As its name implies the application lets users create teams and through these teams users can then send out messages to team members swiftly and in a highly managed fashion. It also permits viewing of team’s web pages communication history and conference calls.
Email hits the road
NEWS.com.au – May 29, 2007
Naturally one of those features is email. You can use Nokia’s Mailbox program to fetch email from your personal address setting it to check for new email messages as often as every 15 minutes. If your work uses a BlackBerry Enterprise or Microsoft Exchange Server you could instead install and use the BlackBerry Connect or Mail for Exchange programs included in the handset. These will deliver your email messages as soon as they arrive. Like its predecessor the E61i comes with a range of connectivity options. You can connect to the internet via your mobile phone provider whether you use a 2. 5G or 3G service or you can use a wireless internet network… The BBC WidSet for example details the latest news stories. WidSets are currently available from companies including eBay Wikipedia Digg and Flickr. You can also download and read a wide range of email attachments with this phone including Word Excel PowerPoint Zip and Adobe PDF files and you can also create cut-down version of documents spreadsheets and presentations using the Quickffice suite. ther phone features include a voice recorder music player and for the first time a 2-megapixel camera. The camera has a limited number of options – white balance colour tone night mode self-timer and picture quality – and no flash but it does capture adequate photographs and video in most situations. Also hidden in its menu system is a currency converter calculator printer support and an amusing program called Message Reader that reads your email or SMS messages out to you in a male or female voice. And yes it can announce swear words.