[updated to correct a typo - 10:48 27th May 2007] I get lots of mails similar to the one below as a result of the blog entries on the EULA not going away and the Office 2003 on Vista and in some cases the issues have been Vista, sometimes the CD and sometimes non-genuine software that someone has been...
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on Sun, May 27 2007
Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Windows Client, Vista, Application Compatibility, Office 2003
I saw this was released and thought I had to share it - finally a resource will logo'd ready and community opinion on application compatibility for Vista. It states: Welcome to the Windows Vista Application Readiness Beta site! The central place to find and share information about software that runs...
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on Fri, May 11 2007
Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Support and Tools, Community, Windows Client, Vista, Documentation, Partner, Application Compatibility
I have already discussed on this blog what is and is not support for Office on Vista (any version from 2000 on) here . However there is always the question of licensing what is actually allowed and what would be piracy. I am going to try to make it very simple here. · If you have the Home and Student...
[updated 16:42 9th May 2007 with url for MS Support of this] [updated 9:45 22nd July 2007 with url to fix for install dialog coming up with word] I was recently asked in Office 2003 and Office 2007 can co-exist on the same system. The answer is yes, except for Outlook which as in previous versions get...
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on Wed, May 9 2007
Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Office 2007, Word, Tips, Application Compatibility, Office 2003
I saw this over at the The Official SBS Blog and thought I had better tell everyone about it given the traffic on the web page. Once you apply this patch you might get an BCM (Business Contact Manager) error if you have installed it - to fix this, go look at My BCM Updates Post and grab the one about...
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on Fri, May 4 2007
Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Office 2007, Outlook, System Update, Application Compatibility, BCM, Business Contact Manager
Just a quick note to say that if you have a SBS customer who has some PCs with Vista then you will need the updated ISA firewall client. You will need to go to this page - ISA Server Firewall Client Firewall Client for ISA Server Brief Description Firewall Client for ISA Server installs the Firewall...
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on Fri, Apr 27 2007
Filed under: SBS 2003, Support and Tools, Security, SBS 2003 R2, ISA Server, Application Compatibility
I get asked this question quite often, so I thought I would point out the download location for the tool to make files work between Office 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007. Just to cover off some details - Office 2007 can save in Office 97-2003 file format as well as the new Open XML and PDF file formats. Using...
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on Sun, Apr 15 2007
Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Office 2007, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Application Compatibility, Office 2003, Open XML, Getting Started