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Archive for the ‘Speculation’ Category

January 16th, 2007

Outlook 2007 - Word HTML vs. IE7 HTML

Just how bad is it that Microsoft decided to drop Outlook’s use of IE7 as it’s HTML rendering engine and move to Word 2007 as the rendering engine?
ForeverGeek has a side-by-side comparison (between Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2007) of an e-mail viewed in both rendering engines. This is horrible Microsoft, why would you do this? […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

January 5th, 2007

Grammar Edits - Calling all English Teachers

Okay, here’s a quick question to everyone out there. How many of you use the grammar checker provided by Microsoft in Word? Here’s a screen shot of a recent correction suggestion for an e-mail I was working on in Outlook 2007.
I think my high school English teacher (Hi! Mrs. Craig) might be proud of me […]

By Jason -- 2 comments

December 18th, 2006

Access 2007 Error Details Report

Working on a client project today and Access 2007 keeps crashing whenever I try to enter “Design View” on a report that’s developed in Access. When I submit the error report and click the link to get more information on what caused the error, I get the message above.
Granted, I probably shouldn’t be completely relying […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

December 15th, 2006

Microsoft Office Apps Lite

As I was writing my last post about my experiences with Google Spreadsheets, I began thinking of some options for other solutions. If Microsoft wanted to shore-up some market share and make sure that webtop apps didn’t cut too much into their core business of packaged software delivery, they could offer a free, but stripped-down […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

December 7th, 2006

Adobe Reader 8 Bloated As Always

If you haven’t seen it yet, Adobe latest version of their pdf reader software is available in Version 8. It’s over 20MB in size, so don’t think you’re getting a nice trim and fit piece of software to use. Why oh why oh why couldn’t Microsoft have been allowed to keep PDF file options in […]

By Jason -- 1 comment

November 10th, 2006

Excel in Gmail via Google Spreadsheets

Did you notice it? That new little link in the footer of your Gmail message? You’ll only see it if you’ve got an Excel spreadsheet attached. There’s a quick link to open the document in Google Spreadsheets instead of just downloading it and opening it with Excel.
I just had a thought that I wonder if […]

By Jason -- 3 comments

October 31st, 2006

Office 2007 Packaging

Here’s the new packaging you should be looking for when you’re browsing your favorite software retailer shopping for the next version of Microsoft Office suite.
I’ve been running Office 2007 now for about 6 months or so across the various iterations. I’ve been pleased with the new features and organization of information. It does take a […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

October 31st, 2006

Download Microsoft Office Accounting 2007 FREE!

I’ve been using Microsoft Money ever since I’ve had money and a computer to track it with, but Microsoft has a new product out and now you can download the full application for free here. It’s called Microsoft Office Accounting 2007.
I’ve been looking for something like this for awhile. Of course there was the deluxe […]

By Jason -- 7 comments

October 26th, 2006

Running Office 2007 Full-time

Yesterday evening I installed the full Office 2007 beta on my work laptop. This is a big step, but I figure it’s a good one to really pound out and test Office 2007 in the real world for me. I also figured it would help me get some more information and posts to get included […]

By Jason -- 0 comments

October 12th, 2006

Vote for your favorite ad

Hey there! A new poll has been added to the site. I’m really curious what’s the favorite Mac ad for everyone out there! Be sure and vote over on the poll to the right in the sidebar. If you need a recap of which one each ad was, just visit the Mac ad site here.
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By Jason -- 1 comment