Friday, June 30, 2006
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Microsoft Office 2007 may be delayed again -- and that might be a good move after all, because I'm quite happy with Office 2003 and would rather wait and use a better release of Office 2007.
Microsoft delays Office 2007 again
Microsoft said Thursday that it is making another slight delay to the planned arrival time for Office 2007, citing performance concerns with recent test versions. The software maker now plans to finish the code for the revamped Office suite by the end of the year, rather than in October, the date it set in March. The company said in March that it would wait to start selling Office until January, to coincide with the launch of Windows Vista. Now, though, it says Office may not be ready for store shelves until "early 2007."
More on the CNET News site...
More hitches at Microsoft delay launch of new Office software
Microsoft has delayed the launch of its next Office software package while it tackles "performance issues", in the latest in a series of hold-ups affecting the company's key products. The group last night announced it is aiming to make the new version, Office 2007, available to business customers by the end of the year, rather than its earlier target of October.
More on the Guardian site...
Microsoft delays Office '07
The Office delay comes three months after Microsoft again pushed back the release of its flagship Windows Vista operating system, now scheduled for broad availability in January, missing the holiday shopping season. "The bottom line is Microsoft gives guidance, which businesses are trying to make plans around, but consistently is unable to meet the dates in the guidance," said Joe Wilcox, a senior analyst at Jupiter Research. "At some point, that's got to impact somebody's confidence in Microsoft."
More on The Seattle Times site...
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Thursday, June 29, 2006
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Neuxpower Solutions announced new Server and Desktop versions of NXPowerLite, a presentation compression tool, at the C3 Expo in New York. NXPowerLite radically reduces the size of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations , as well as StarOffice and OpenOffice.org presentations saved in the PowerPoint format by compressing the graphics and embedded documents contained within them, making them easier to manage, distribute and use.
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In a unique move, Microsoft has put up a trial of Office 2007 online on their site that uses a Citrix browser plug-in. It seems like a novel idea -- so rather than download or get a CD of the beta, you can play with it through an online experience.
News24.com reported that the goal of the online preview is to let people play around with the software without going through the trouble of downloading the large beta versions, which are less reliable than final products. Still, to use the online demonstration, users may need to download a plug-in and must register with the company.
Ars Technica adds that once the test environment is set up, users can explore a limited Windows desktop running Office 2007. The preview can be described as a series of tutorials meant to highlight the new features of the Office 2007 System. For example, Outlook 2007 launches with a fully loaded inbox and a window devoted to telling you what you should try out.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
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Monday, June 26, 2006
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PowerPoint slides can be visually appealing and informative, but what really makes or breaks a presentation is the person talking you through it, expanding on the bullet points and breathing life into the words on the screen. But what if a company wants to send out its presentation to potential clients? The live and dynamic element is lost: since no one will be there when they watch it; all the client sees is one slide after another, with nothing to link them together.
Tania Hershman discusses Speech-Over Studio on the ISRAEL21c site...
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Sunday, June 25, 2006
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Saturday, June 24, 2006
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Friday, June 23, 2006
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
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Microsoft and non-profit licensing organization Creative Commons said Wednesday that they had struck a deal to allow Office users to add the group's licensing to their documents. Although the two companies have worked together in the past, this latest agreement is the most significant project to date. Such a deal could catapult Creative Commons from a fairly small user base to much wider acceptance as a method for protecting one's work. Microsoft estimates that there are some 400 million Office users worldwide.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
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So what is PowerPoint Live? It's an annual event held in the USA every fall. All sorts of people use PowerPoint to create presentations of every imaginable type -- PowerPoint Live is where all these people get together to learn more and share ideas.
Read more here...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006
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This is just a simple educational presentation on Photosynthesis that we developed in our office as a fun project - download here...
This is a members-only download -- and membership is free! You'll be provided an option to become a member when you download, unless you already have your members-only password!
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Creating a product-development timeline in PowerPoint is well worth the effort. What exactly is a product development timeline? Simply put, it visually portrays the development process of a product from concept to release.
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Howard Cooperstein is Program Manger for PowerPoint at Microsoft -- he along with other Program Managers Ric Bretschneider, and Mark Jaremkohave has put up the new PowerPoint/OfficeArt blog at the MSDN site. Unlike other MSDN blogs, this one has nothing to do with programming -- in fact, this one is filled with splashes of color and design!
Howard's newest post shows how you can create a distinctive 3D title using the new WordArt engine in PowerPoint -- almost like a movie title! Check it out here...
If you look down at the categories, you'll find a new category called PowerPoint 2007 -- I'll add all PowerPoint 2007 related posts to this category.
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Easily the most used presentation development tool on the planet, Microsoft PowerPoint hasn't seen a significant upgrade to its functionality or its basic engine since the Office 2000 version. But with Office 2007 Beta 2 now fully underway, the company's senior product manager for the Professional Plus suite, Mark Alexieff, showed off the completely rewritten graphics engine for PowerPoint 2007, along with its much-anticipated ribbon control, in a demonstration for TechEd last Friday.
More on the TGGDaily site...
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Monday, June 19, 2006
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It's happening again -- self proclaimed soothsayers are predicting the beginning of the end of Microsoft PowerPoint -- and frankly, I have lost count of how many times this has happened before. To give due credit, I quite like S5, the new set of simple standards that is built on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Yes, S5 is the new competition.
So what's different this time? And how is S5 better? Frankly, S5 still leaves many questions unanswered and for anyone who has seen the look and polish of PowerPoint 2007, it really is funny to compare S5 with PowerPoint!
But let us not discount S5 -- it has its advantages. About disadvantages, it's not too easy to create S5 presentations for ordinary folks although some people might tell you that S5 is so easy -- all you need to do is edit simple XHTML files! What about all those who find PowerPoint easy to use -- is the "S5 easy" and "PowerPoint easy" the same? Everyone knows that the answer is no.
But as I want to say, S5 has its advantages -- for simple presentations, S5 has a much better output than PowerPoint's own HTML output that is bloated and slow over not-so-fast internet connections. So what if someone created a S5 output add-in for PowerPoint? That would be the best use of both technologies!
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Sunday, June 18, 2006
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Saturday, June 17, 2006
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In March, Google bought an online word processor, Writely. Recently, it launched the Google Spreadsheet. What's next? Maybe a Microsoft PowerPoint wannabe?
That's what a recent report from Gartner speculates. Actually, the scenario is that Google will buy Thumbstacks, which is a Web2.0 presentation app.
Tom Taulli discusses more on Blogging Stocks...
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Fortinet, a provider of multi-threat security solutions, said that its security research team was key in discovering the latest Microsoft critical vulnerability, CVE-2006-0022, which impacts users of several versions of Microsoft PowerPoint.
These vulnerabilities, the company said, are due to error manipulation of PowerPoint's Record Type and Record Data. Fortinet has advised PowerPoint users to immediately apply the update provided by Microsoft.
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Friday, June 16, 2006
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Thursday, June 15, 2006
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 Cliff Atkinson advises the senior leadership of some of the world's largest companies on how they can engage the organizational phenomenon called PowerPoint. In this interview Cliff discusses his book, storyboarding inside PowerPoint and shares some ideas.
Read the interview here...
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posted by Geetesh
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Microsoft has released the 11.2.4 update for Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac that fixes vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. This update also fixes issues in Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 and Entourage 2004, and it includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates.
Download the update from the Microsoft site...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
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