Software producer Microsoft has finally confirmed that Microsoft Office 2007 punters will get a free upgrade, long after news of the deal leaked over a month ago.We first reported in early February that the company pulled down a blog post detailing a promotional offer for a free upgrade to Office 2010 if consumers buy Office [...]
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Microsoft has announced that the next version of its Outlook email client will feature tight integration with social notworking sites.Through Microsoft’s introduction of the Outlook social connector middleware layer, back-end services such as Sharepoint, Windows Live, Facebook and Myspace will be able to push information directly to your inbox. Last year the Microsoft announced that [...]
THE OPEN SOURCE RIVAL to Microsoft Office, Openoffice.org 3.2 is now available for download.It reportedly boasts faster start-up times, improved Open Document Format (ODF) support, better support for the Microsoft’s Office document files and support for postscript-based Opentype fonts.The release comes after OpenOffice.org hit a milestone of 300 million downloads over the course of its [...]
AMD has finally gotten around to releasing open source drivers for its ATI Radeon HD 5000 “Evergreen” family of GPUs.Phoronix reports that the xf86-video-ati DDX driver branch has user-space mode-setting support for the Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs. The ATI kernel mode-setting support is nearly finished but has not been published.The current open source ATI [...]
OPEN SOURCE OPERATION Mozilla has put out a release candidate of Firefox 3.6, which suggests that the final version should become available soon.Today Mozzarella said that the preview software built on the Gecko 1.9.2 engine has already been released to beta users and is available for download through its web site. According to the accompanying [...]
DESPITE HAVING SAID that a recent court ruling would not disrupt its sales of Office, Microsoft pulled copies of the software from its own website yesterday.The Vole had said it would release a version of Office that did not contain the custom XML features that a court has ruled it nicked from Canadian software house [...]
APPLE WON’T DELIVER Boot Camp for Windows 7 this year.According to AppleInsider, the fruit-themed toymaker is going to miss its target for supporting Mac users who want to use Boot Camp to run Microsoft’s latest operating system.Earlier this year Jobs’ Mob said that it would deliver support for Windows 7 through an update to Boot [...]
When Microsoft announced the Windows 7 Family Pack option, it said that the three-user bundle of Windows 7 Home Premium would be available only for a limited time. That time, it appears, is drawing to a close. As noted by WindowsITPro, supplies are drying up fast. (Credit: Amazon.com) “The Windows 7 Family Pack was introduced [...]