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Office upgrade could trap many businesses
Due to a patent dispute, companies will have to use tweaked versions of Microsoft Office XP and Office 2003 when they install the software on new machines. Although companies are not required to go back and update already installed copies of Office, many companies have policies that require all machines...
Tags: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Access
Discussion threads 2006-02-07
Patent spat forces businesses to upgrade Office
Caught with hands in cookie jar??Interesting that MS finally gets nailed for doing what it has been accused of all along - incorporating other's technologies into it's products w/o permission. How many small companies have gone belly up over the years when their proprietary product's features are suddenly included...
Tags: copyright, DR-DOS 6.0, infringement, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft MS-DOS, Microsoft Office, oldjags, patent, programming, Stac Electronics
Discussion threads 2006-01-31

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Microsoft wins again in Eolas patent dispute
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Tags: Web browsers, Intellectual property, Eolas Technologies Inc., office action, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent
Technical articles 2004-08-19
Microsoft FAT patent falls flat
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Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, patent, Microsoft FAT, Microsoft Corp., Linux, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Technical articles 2004-10-01
Microsoft file patent faces exam
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Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Technical articles 2004-06-14
Google wins patent for search results page design
coolI wonder if I could patent my haircut?Sorry FrylockAs I understood the article, your barber could, theoretically, but not you. You are the purchaser of your barber's design.It does make you wonder what they will come up with next.Sure you couldApparently yes, so long as you design it, document...
Tags: Frylock, patent, barber, patents, off-topic, Google Inc., Starbucks Corp., search result
Discussion threads 2006-12-14
Office standards battle grinds on
Office standards battle grinds onarticle rootOffice standards battle grinds onStandards body Ecma International has created a technical committee to standardize Microsoft Office file formats. The Microsoft-led committee is a key defense against a multivendor power play to use document standards to loosen Microsoft's control over desktop software.Be honest: Where does...
Tags: hardware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Standard, Sonja Thompson
Discussion threads 2005-12-13
Microsoft and Novell: the other shoe drops
Well, well, well.. that didnt take too long, did it? You may recall the Microsoft Corporation and Novell and their Linux division SuSE announced they were going to be working together on various project to help their respective products work better together. In a nutshell, Microsoft announced...
Tags: Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsofts, Novell, Novell Inc., Open Source, operating system, Windows
Blog posts 2006-11-17
A look at Office Productivity Application options for SMBs
Trivial, superficial article based on incomplete research.This article covers almost none of the main points of interest to organizations considering MS Office alternatives, such as the fact that it's harder to train a user when "upgrading" to Office 12 (2007) than to Open Office. It misses entirely the significant other...
Tags: Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Jim-MN, feedback, microsoft, software, office suite, odf, open standards, alternatives, Sun Microsystems Inc., small and medium business
Discussion threads 2007-02-27
Ballmer security pitch leaves skeptics unswayed
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Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, security, Steve Ballmer, Linux, vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
Technical articles 2004-10-25
Microsoft registers trademark--19 years late
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Tags: Microsoft Office, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Stacy Drake, Savvysoft, Microsoft Excel
Technical articles 2004-11-12
Week in review: Spyware, cost cutting, Kevin Bacon, and member discussions
Now that the election is over, California can return to normal. Of course, for the typical IT pro, normal often means staying too busy to keep up with everything that happened in the rest of the IT world. Here's some of what you may have missed:David: 1, Goliath: 0News.com reported...
Tags: Eolas Technologies Inc., John Sheesley, Kevin Bacon, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, password, spyware
Technical articles 2003-10-10
Windows XP to fall off retail and OEM lists in 5 weeks
?? that no one wants to deal with ??I don't agree at all. XP had its turn, and it is over. Vista is just different, and people are afraid or just lazy. Spend some time investigating the product instead of blindly attacking it. Have a try on VLite before trying...
Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, VISTA IS, Microsoft Windows XP
Discussion threads 2008-05-27
Gosling questions Sun-Microsoft pact
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Tags: Corporate law, Programming languages, James Gosling, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., agreement, antitrust
Technical articles 2005-02-04
CodePlex: Microsoft's open source initiative
Print ThisThe "Print This" button is not working very well - it prints pages and pages. Please consider revising this function so that it does not print the surrounding frames and only prints the article text. Thank you.I'm just waitingI'm sure that Microsoft, being the monolithic enterprise that it is,...
Tags: michael.sanders@..., Open Source Initiative, Microsoft Corp., open source
Discussion threads 2007-06-06
Imitation is purest flattery as Apple, Microsoft battle
Imitation is purest flattery as Apple, Microsoft battlearticle rootImitation is purest flattery as Apple, Microsoft battleThere are a few similarities between the next version of Windows Longhorn, which is still in its early stages of development, and the soon-to-be released new version of Mac OS X Tiger. For example, both...
Tags: Apple Computer Inc., desktop, imitation, Imitation, longhorn, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system, programming, purest flattery, Sonja Thompson, tiger
Discussion threads 2005-04-19
PDF and Office Graphical Attachment Booster for BlackBerry - DocHawk Platinum - One Year (Mobile)
DocHawk Platinum 2.0 provides the ultimate in advanced attachment viewing capabilities. View your e-mail attachments the way you would expect, but could never realize from your BlackBerry: quickly, accurately and conveniently. This solution is based on patent-pending technology and is constructed, maintained and supported by a recipient of Handango's Developer...
Tags: Mobile, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, RIM BlackBerry, EFax, Terratial Technologies, DocHawk Platinum 2.0, DocHawk, Handhelds, E-mail, Hardware, Online Communications
Software downloads 2005-05-12
PDF and Office Graphical Attachment Booster for BlackBerry - DocHawk Platinum - Three Months (Mobile)
DocHawk Platinum 2.0 provides the ultimate in advanced attachment viewing capabilities. View your e-mail attachments the way you would expect, but could never realize from your BlackBerry: quickly, accurately and conveniently. This solution is based on patent-pending technology and is constructed, maintained and supported by a recipient of Handango's Developer...
Tags: Mobile, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, RIM BlackBerry, EFax, Terratial Technologies, DocHawk Platinum 2.0, DocHawk, Handhelds, E-mail, Hardware, Online Communications
Software downloads 2005-03-20
eXpresso Achieves Express Federation With MyOneLogin
eXpresso is an award-winning SaaS provider of real-time document collaboration for Microsoft Office. Its patent pending Asymmetric Collaboration service enables business users to share and collaborate on business documents from any location. The challenge was join partner communities, to comply with federation Standards and to minimize developer effort. eXpresso deployed...
Tags: Federation, TriCipher, eXpresso, Software As A Service (SaaS), Authentication/Encryption, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Security Administration, Emerging Technologies, Security
Case studies 2009-06-23
Microsoft patent case goes to trial
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Tags: Arendi Holdings, Microsoft Corp., Smart Tags, Microsoft Office
Technical articles 2004-09-14
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