The News Review:
- Connected: Microsoft ffice 2003 better than ffice 2007
- A rare opportunity to make Beijing sweat
- Mac BU promises bibliography improvements to ffice 2008
Connected: Microsoft ffice 2003 better than ffice 2007
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Mar 29, 2008
So occasionally I do second looks at products — as I’m doing today with Microsoft ffice 2007. A review of ffice 2007 could be considered doomed from the start. Its predecessor ffice 2003 is one of the best products Microsoft ever created; so the bar is raised high. After a year of using the newer product I still see some features that are better than the older version; but on the whole I’d rather be using ffice 2003. The biggest difference is the ribbon — a graphic bar that gives the user access to frequently used operations in almost all ffice 2007 applications. (utlook doesn’t use the ribbon. ) The concept is great; and it streamlines several tasks such as being able to create mailings in MS-Word (part of the ffice suite); but it falls short in general productivity… Still not perfect; but it makes ffice 2007 much more usable. Looking at the ffice 2007 applications individually it’s easy to have your favorites. PowerPoint 2007 has some incredible enhancements over PowerPoint 2003 — and even the ribbon makes more sense. But wishing I’d never upgraded utlook from 2003 to 2007 has become a daily ritual. Microsoft claims it’s much more secure; but I often question the reasons it has to be so slow and why so many parts don’t seem to work as I’d like. The good news for the user is that other companies offer you alternatives to ffice 2007. David Radin is a business consultant and freelance writer.
A rare opportunity to make Beijing sweat
International Herald Tribune – Mar 29, 2008
The Chinese government respects foreigners who repeatedly and reliably tell them the truth. How hard is it really for GE or Microsoft to push for something that the Chinese government already said it is receptive to doing?” While the messaging to athletes and corporate sponsors is articulated diplomatically Savitt's overall campaign to bend the government of China to her demands remains straightforward. “Now we can really begin” she said with a wide smile on the day in mid-February when Steven Spielberg resigned as a creative consultant for the opening ceremonies. The actress Mia Farrow who has visited the greater Darfur region eight times communicates daily with Savitt and works on nearly every aspect of the campaign. Farrow popularized the “Genocide lympics” slogan in an opinion column – written with her son Ronan Farrow a 19-year-old Yale law student – in The Wall Street Journal a year ago. Farrow had decided that for the director of “Schindler's List” to have a role in China's lympics was unacceptable; she called him a “key collaborator… Farrow popularized the “Genocide lympics” slogan in an opinion column – written with her son Ronan Farrow a 19-year-old Yale law student – in The Wall Street Journal a year ago. Farrow had decided that for the director of “Schindler's List” to have a role in China's lympics was unacceptable; she called him a “key collaborator. ” Farrow travels with a MacBook containing her PowerPoint presentation – an affecting narrative of grim statistics and photos she snapped of displaced women and orphaned children with dancing eyes. She unleashes the presentation on TV chat shows and on her friends like Barbara Walters whom Farrow is currently lobbying. In the car on the way to a radio interview Farrow told me she wanted Walters to include Farrow's plan for a “Live From the Camps” broadcast as a regular feature on Walters's popular daytime gabfest “The View. ” Today in Asia & Pacific.
Mac BU promises bibliography improvements to ffice 2008
Ars Technica – Mar 29, 2008
As you might have been able to tell we were impressed. For use on Intel-based Macs the fact that ffice 2008 runs natively offers a huge performance boost. Despite the omission of Visual Basic for Applications and all that means for Excel users the added features to Word and PowerPoint have in my opinion put ffice 2008 at the head of the class when it comes to word processing and presentation software.