The News Review:
- Microsoft Boosts ffice Security with New Tools
- Microsoft To Work With Chinese rg on ffice XML Format
- T-Mobile US Announces the T-Mobile Wing Smartphone
- The next step for search: beyond words
Microsoft Boosts ffice Security with New Tools
IT Jungle – May 23, 2007
But over the last 12 months there have been 11 zero-day flaws discovered in Word Excel and PowerPoint products and it took Microsoft an average of 49. 7 days to fix them. So far ffice 2007 has stayed relatively intact security-wise. The only flaw affecting ffice 2007 at this point appears to be the Drawing bject Vulnerability which Microsoft fixed earlier this month with.
Microsoft To Work With Chinese rg on ffice XML Format
ADT Magazine – May 23, 2007
n Sunday Microsoft announced an initiative with the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics to create an open source translator project between its pen XML document format and China’s Unified ffice Format (UF). UF is an open XML-based format developed by various Chinese groups. Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy recently called UF one of the three main document formats available along with pen XML and the open source pen Document Format (DF). McNealy also called for a merging of DF and UF according to a blog entry from Andy Updegrove a lawyer who represents technology companies and open source organizations… Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy recently called UF one of the three main document formats available along with pen XML and the open source pen Document Format (DF). McNealy also called for a merging of DF and UF according to a blog entry from Andy Updegrove a lawyer who represents technology companies and open source organizations. In a related development Microsoft also announced the beta release of translation tools for several ffice programs including the 2003 and 2007 versions of Excel and PowerPoint as well as Windows XP. The new tools are part of the pen XML Translator project launched in July 2006 to enable “customers to pick from whatever format they want to use with their ffice documents — whether it’s DF pen XML PDF or new standards like UF” Jean Paoli general manager of Interoperability and XML Architecture at Microsoft said in the release. The translators will enable the Microsoft programs to read and write UF documents (which are in “*. uof” format) and enable bulk translation of documents between formats. Since the translator project was begun on SourceForge.
T-Mobile US Announces the T-Mobile Wing Smartphone
Digital-Lifestyles.Info – May 23, 2007
As the wig-spinning Paul Daniels might say “That’s not a lot!”KeyboardThe QWERTY keyboard now slides out from the right side of the phone instead of the left side so that the d-pad is now to the left of the display when the keyboard is extended. This should make it easier for right handed users to operate the phone although we’re not really fans of sliding keyboards as they’re a b*gger to operate when you’ve only got one hand free (like when you’re attending to an important SMS in the Little Boy’s Room). nboard there’s a version of Internet Explorer Microsoft ffice Mobile with Word Excel and PowerPoint and support for. Naturally the Wing packs all the latest Windows Live gizmos including Live Messenger Live Hotmail Live Search and Live Spaces and support for Microsoft’s push email system. The phone also comes with voice dialling voice commands and voice recorder a speakerphone Bluetooth connectivity and a MicroSD memory card slot.
The next step for search: beyond words
PC World Canada – May 23, 2007
I remain dubious however. Ad-supported services are likely to waste your time with commercials before delivering help… It also helps explain why Microsoft reportedly has offered businesses a bounty if their employees use its third-rate offering. Even Google often veers wildly off base with images. Again and again when I look for a photo of some nonfamous person I get images of their book covers or some PowerPoint they presented somewhere. Sorry but that’s not what I had in mind. For now the fallback for nontext search is usually tagging–as seen on sites such as Flickr–whereby humans assign keywords to photos and the like. It mostly works but if the categorization is wrong or missing you won’t get good results. Still companies are trying out plenty of clever ideas.