News: Microsoft Word and Office sales ban begins

A ban on Microsoft selling certain versions of its flagship products Word and Office has begun. The software firm was made to change elements of the software by US courts after a patent dispute with Canadian firm i4i. Microsoft said that it had complied with the court’s ruling and would now offer “revised software” in the US. The court ruling means that Microsoft must also pay i4i damages of $290m (£182m). However, the firm said on 8 January that it had filed another appeal against the injunction.

More details available at news.bbc.co.uk

News: Microsoft To Start Word Patch Delivery In The US

Microsoft recently lost a patent infringement case in the United States with the court’s ruling in favor of software development company tiny i4i. Many websites and blogs proclaimed after the court’s ruling that Microsoft would have to stop selling Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office in the beginning of January. Experts on the other hand knew that Microsoft was prepared to react quickly if they would lose the case in court. Continue Reading »

Release: The first Release Candidate for OpenOffice.org 3.2 is now available for testing

Announced yesterday the release of Openoffice3.2 RC1, the new release comes with new features and improvements. Note that the final release of Openoffice 3.2 is planned for XX January 2010. The OOO3.2 RC1 release is now available for download and you can download it here.

For feature list check here.

News: Microsoft Office 2010 Set for June Launch

Microsoft Office 2010 in six version glory coming next summer

The most widely used productivity application on the planet is Microsoft Office. Microsoft makes the lion’s share of its money from sales of Office and its Windows operating system.

Windows 7 hit the market recently and has been racking up impressive sales numbers. As of mid-November, Windows 7 had been able to grab 4% of the PC market. It took Windows Vista months to reach the same point.

A new version of Office called Office 2010 is also set to launch — Neowin reports that the launch is scheduled for June 2010. The new version of Office will support ribbons for all products and a new Version of Office for Mac users will launch some time in 2010.

More details available at dailytech.com

HowTo: Graphic styles in OpenOffice.org Draw and Impress

One of OpenOffice.org’s greatest strengths is its emphasis on styles. Some users balk at styles, claiming they are restrictive, but no other feature repays a little organization with so much ease of use and saving of time. Yet even those who are used to styles in Writer tend to overlook the styles used in other applications. That is especially true of graphic styles.

Graphic styles are found in Draw and Impress. They are to a drawing object what paragraph styles are to a block of text in Writer. While you could simply copy and paste an oval primitive when you need another one, by creating a style, you allow yourself the option of modifying all the objects that use the style in a matter of seconds, rather than altering each one separately.

Each graphic style is divided into three main characteristics: Object characteristics, such as line and area (color); Diagramming characteristics, which are used when you create a chart or plan, and Font characteristics, such as typeface and alignment. These characteristics are all spread over multiple tabs in the styles window.

More details available at linuxjournal.com

News: Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Download

The beta of Microsoft’s upcoming Office suite Microsoft Office 2010 has been finished and already been made available to MSDN and Technet subscribers. This leaves the general public who is also highly interested in this new beta with second row seats for now although it is rumored that public Office 2010 beta downloads will be activated by Microsoft in this week.

One indicator that this is the case is the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Download page which is already listing download buttons for the three Microsoft Office editions Office Home and Business 2010 beta, Office Professional 2010 beta and Office Professional Plus 2010 beta. The links are unfortunately not live yet leading to a “The Office 2010 beta will come soon” page instead. Continue Reading »

News: Microsoft releases Six Update

Six security updates Microsoft will be released on November 10 tomorrow. Three of the updates was stated as critical.

This update involves Windows 2000 SP4, XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003 and 2008. Patched holes that would allow a hacker to run code from an already infected system. There was also an important cement of Windows, which can lead to DoS (Denial of Service). Continue Reading »

News: Microsoft Office 2010 Starter Put Ads Free

SEATTLE - Microsoft plans to release Microsoft Office 2010 Starter freely without pay nothing to call. However, when accessing these applications, users will be presented with ads.

The presence of these Office 2010 Starter replaces Microsoft Works, economical version of Office application series which has been impressed with Microsoft covered up. Free applications that will be available in new computers that use Windows operating system in the near future. Continue Reading »

News: Search this site: KOffice 2.1 Beta 3 Released

The KOffice team is happy to announce the third beta of the upcoming KOffice 2.1. This extra beta has been added to ensure the highest quality for the final 2.1 release. The KOffice team has worked overtime and can show a longer list of fixed bugs than ever. See the full changelog for the impressive details. You can grab the source or install packages available for your distribution.

News: KOffice To Be Used In Next Generation Smart Phone

Today Nokia employee Thomas Zander announced in his blog that Nokia will be using KOffice as a base for the office file viewer in Maemo 5. He also sent an email to the KOffice mailing list giving some more details about how this came to be.

“This shows that KOffice has one of the best technical foundations”, says Jan Hambrecht, one of the core developers of KOffice. “It is both lightweight, flexible and very fast, which makes it perfect in embedded environments like a smart phone”.

Nokia has created a customized GUI based on the Maemo 5 touch screen interface on top of the KOffice core. It has also worked on making the support for MS Office documents more mature. Thomas Zander of Qt Development Framework and KO GmbH worked on fixing bugs and enhancing support for MS Office formats.

The first presentation of this work will be at the Maemo Summit in Amsterdam from October 9th to 11th