[updated to correct grammar in title - thanks to Warren Jacobi for pointing it out to me] I have been hearing about these at work - I don't have them yet, so can't comment on them, but apparently they will be going to trial soon and then out via updates. 938979 Vista Performance and Reliability...
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on Mon, Aug 6 2007
Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Support and Tools, beta, Windows Client, System Update, Application Compatibility
I saw a blog entry at Susan Bradley's blog about her now deploying Office 2007 with a classic menu . It was worth of a blog link for all those who want to stick to the old, old ways where you search for items over multiple menus (especially if you turn on personalised menus which hide all the things...
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on Mon, Jul 23 2007
Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Microsoft, Office 2007, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Application Compatibility, Office 2003
[updated 24th January 2009 with new download location for x64 systems] [updated 31st December 2009 with Windows 7 information] I have been asked this question several times and finally dug into the system to make it work. N.B. while this will work with Windows 7 the "agent" will have a pink...
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on Mon, Jul 23 2007
Filed under: Windows Client, Tips, Application Compatibility, Office 2003, Windows 7, Vista and XP
I have been asked this many times following up on the blog entry Installing Office 2003 and Office 2007 on the same system where once people have removed the problem with the End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) appearing every time they start Office they then get the dialogs below every time they switch...
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on Sat, Jul 21 2007
Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Office System, Support and Tools, Windows Client, Vista, Office 2007, Documentation, Word, Tips, Application Compatibility, Office 2003
I have been using and referencing standards for a long time. They are great. C# is an ECMA standard for example as are parts of .Net which is how project Mono has managed to come great strides in delivering part of the .Net experience on non-Microsoft platforms. Also my 1st job out after University was...
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on Fri, Jun 29 2007
Filed under: Office System, Office 2007, Application Compatibility, Open XML, Open Standards, If you only read one post today
I was browsing the UKSBSG Yahoo Group (a group for UK Small Business Partners) when I noticed Alistair 's post in response to slow Vista systems and I thought I had to share: Hi, Just from experience, I had similar issues on Outlook 2007 and, to a lesser extent, Vista in general - especially on boot...
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on Thu, Jun 28 2007
Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Support and Tools, Windows Client, Vista, Application Compatibility
I have to thanks Lauren for bringing this to my attention. She had found my posting on how to update Exchange so that this did not happen, but she could not get the SBS / Exchange Server updated. Her research said that using Firefox would fix the problem , but to me this was just a huge sledgehammer...