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- National workshop on Microsoft Powerpoint held
- Quickoffice Announces 30% Savings and a Free Upgrade Offer on …
- Why Microsoft Is Headed to $4
- Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.5 and 2004 11.5.3 Updates
National workshop on Microsoft Powerpoint held
Ludhiana Newsline India
It was a hands-on workshop on Microsoft PowerPoint which aimed at imparting the skills for preparing good power point presentations. The workshop was awarded four credit hours by the Punjab Medical Council. Approximately 40 participants attended the workshop. The registration was followed by inauguration by the Principal Dr Daljit Singh.
Quickoffice Announces 30% Savings and a Free Upgrade Offer on …
MarketWatch
0 for S60 devices is the leading mobile productivityapplication for on-the-go professionals. — Software enables viewing and editing of Microsoft Word Excel andPowerPoint files including Office 2007. Features in upcoming Quickoffice 6. 0: — View charts in Office 2007 Excel spreadsheets including real-timerecalculation. — Security features for using encrypted and password-protected Wordand Excel documents. — File manager that handles all file types and support for openingediting and saving back to Zip files.
Why Microsoft Is Headed to $4
Gold Seek
And have you ever tried to get Outlook to remember a password for accessing POP mail at say Google? I did and failed even with the help of an online tech wizard nicknamed “War” who had amassed 100000 points as a troubleshooter at a paid-support Web site. But the stake through Microsoft’s cold monopolistic heart may be the new product announced last week by IBM an office suite that runs on cheap :thin clients” connected to a backroom Linux server. IBM says customers will save $500-$800 compared to what they would spend to license Microsoft’s office suite which includes the ever popular Excel PowerPoint and Word. The savings would come not just from the software but from reduced costs for hardware electricity and air conditioning. Same Old Architecture Ironically the cover story in the current issue of Wired magazine is about a man Ray Ozzie who supposedly is going to fix the House That Bill Built. Ozzie’s qualifications are impressive — he invented Lotus Notes — but one wonders whether the culture of mediocrity is so deeply ingrained at Microsoft that the firm is incapable of acting like a start-up which is Ozzie’s plan. Keep in mind that for all Ozzie’s talk about innovation and about moving Microsoft into a position to dominate the “cloud” of wireless possibilities Microsoft chose to perpetuate its failing business model with the release of Vista.
Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.5 and 2004 11.5.3 Updates
TidBITS
Word 2008 sees only one very specific update which fixes an issue that causes formatting problems when you save a Word document in the Word 97-2004 format and then reopen it in Word 2003 for Windows. Finally Entourage 2008 receives updated time zone information. PowerPoint 2008 received no updates. The Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12. 5 Update requires Mac OS X 10.
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