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A few days late :-| Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx Today, we officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010. In addition, we announced our intent to RTM (Release to Manufacturing) this April 2010.

Oh yeah baby on Technet and MSDN Office 2010 provides enhancements for developers such as expanded platform services, increased tools productivity, and reduced time to solution delivery.

Got an email on Friday .. about time too the Tech Preview is a bit buggy, but you expect that Thank you for continuing to utilize, evaluate and provide feedback on the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview. We wanted to notify you the Office 2010 Beta will be available for you to download next month (November 2009). The Beta release of Office ...

Well what can I say .. have a look here: http://www.office2010themovie.com/

Now available for download .. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b444bf18-79ea-46c6-8a81-9db49b4ab6e5&displaylang=en and on Windows Update The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides customers with the latest updates to the 2007 Office suite (the products that are affected by this update are listed ...

Check this out .. it's the mutts nuts! ... Erik has just posted this excellent post .. basically you can toggle the Office Ribbon by double clicking on the label name. http://msmvps.com/blogs/erikr/archive/2008/05/31/playing-with-office-ribbons.aspx

Well every day is a school day .. Found this and am amazed at a couple of the tips! Source: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/04/getting-the-most-out-of-ms-word/Many of us writerly types spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word, and I even know a few Web designers who like to use it and Microsoft Excel for doing simple site prototyping work. ...

I LOVE OneNote .. I use it all the time as my one shop note taker and with a tablet pc it is even better .. now look we have some new powertoys! Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2007/02/16/new-onenote-2007-powertoys.aspx Word Count. We get asked by some people to be able to know how many words are on a page for articles and ...

Forgot that I Blogged this a while back, but what is cool is that I have just tried to open a docx in Word 2003 and it actually prompts me to download: [Microsoft Offic Word]This file was created by a newer version of Microsoft Word.  Do you want to download a compatibility pack so that you can work with this file?[OK] [Cancel] How does it ...

Ohhh.  With the steady flow of DST information is starting to trickle down to more manageable levels.  MSIT has finally release some additional DST 2007 Guidance. ·         MSIT DST Assessment Checklist (5 page PDF) ·         MSIT DST Enterprise Response ...

You can download this WebCast now for ''offline'' viewing. Go here (https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/msevents/view?id=wc020207) stick in you name and then download the 4mb WMV file.  It would be a great idea if MS made the available automatically via an RSS feed Humm, can't sync the wmv to my Zune! .. says that it cannot convert the ...

Cool, shame it wasn't out a bit earlier! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=03D4251D-370F-486D-BB2F-64FF14C546AD&displaylang=en The Exchange Calendar Update Tool enables administrators to update, using the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft® Office Outlook®, multiple user mailboxes, thereby avoiding ...

Do you know what, some time it plays to read a KB!  I am sure you have checked out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931667.  Under ''Why the Time Zone Data Update Tool is required''  It says ... ''Calendar items are created in Outlook by using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) format. UTC is an international standard 24-hour ...

Okay so I have an Exchange 2003 Virtual Server image and I thought I would see what the deal was. So I created a reoccuring meeting request over the time change period.  Then Installed the Windows 2003 Patch with no problem. Next was the Exchange 2003 Patch.  That wanted me to close down w3wp.exe, MMC and MOMHost.  Interesting as ...

At last!  This slipped out over night.  All we need now is the Exchange version. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e343a233-b9c8-4652-9dd8-ae0f1af62568&DisplayLang=en In order to address time zone changes, this tool will help adjust calendar items in Outlook after the operating system has been updated ...

If you use Exchange and Outlook, then YOU NEED TO watch this WebCast! Why oh Why do the damm times for these WebCast SUCK of everyone outside of the US? This one is at 2100-2200 on Friday 2nd Feb 2007 Source: ...

Okay some more information for you.  Interesting how this coule be a one off as ''Congress retains the right to resume the 2005 Daylight Saving Time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete'' UPDATE #1: Just found this too. it would seem that TWO calendar update tool are going to be avaialble.  It looks like the ...

This is turning into a REALLY REALLY BIG issue.  To be clear the new DST change periods are: March 11, 2007 to April 1, 2007 and from October 28, 2007 to November 4, 2007. New DST Start March 11, 2007(three weeks earlier) Previous DST Start April 1, 2007 Previous DST End October 28, 2007 New DST End November 4, 2007(one week later) ...

.. and dont forget the Mac! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/jan07/01-09Macworld.mspx?source=rss&WT.dl=0 REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 9, 2007 — Microsoft continues to deliver world-class technology products for the Mac platform – as it has for more than 20 years. Founded in 1997, Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) ...

Interesting download! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en Users of the Microsoft Office XP and 2003 programs Word, Excel, or PowerPoint—please install all High-Priority updates from Microsoft Update before downloading the Compatibility Pack.By installing the ...

Not long now! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/nov06/11-062007OfficeRTMPR.mspx REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 6, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft® Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM). This gold code milestone concludes the largest ...

Watch out for this one! Source: http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2006/05/yagnuul.html 8 May 2006: Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have warned users about a new virus that infects Excel files under the camouflage of a fantasy football worksheet. ...

I wonder how much marketing people get paid to come up with names for products? As Office 12 is going to be …. Office 2007! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/feb06/02-15OfficeMoreOptionsPR.mspx REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 15, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the lineup of its upcoming 2007 ...

Eileen has just posted this (http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2006/02/13/IM_broadcast.aspx)… cool! This one had me puzzled for a while.  Scott wanted to send IM to a group from the Exchange Global Address List, similar to the old types of Broadcast that everyone used to use 10 years ago (Netware 3.12 perhaps?). I had to ...

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3fd48098-97f4-4173-9ba7-eef85bf5c935&displaylang=en This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail. This update was released in September 2005.  

Most of these are available via microsoft update too! Office 2003 Service Pack 2 Microsoft® Office 2003 Service Pack 2 contains significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements. Some of the fixes included with SP2 have been previously released as separate updates. This service pack combines them into ...

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4D6D2FF3-6DA8-4B4B-A84C-BCD83AD985F0&displaylang=en The Outlook Calendar Views Add-in makes it easy for you to view your Outlook Calendar appointments through a filter that is based on Outlook labels and categories. For example, you can create a view that shows  you just ...

Found this an thought it worthy of being shared. Downloading it now to see if it’s any good! http://research.microsoft.com/adapt/omm/ We are happy to introduce Microsoft Outlook Mobile Manager 2.0. Microsoft Outlook Mobile Manager (OMM) brings the power of Microsoft Outlook to your portable device. OMM can prioritize your messages and ...

Okay, following on from Scott's session at TechEd today, here is how to enable SCL in Outlook and OWA 1) Save the following text in to a file called SCL.cfg and copy that to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Forms\1033. ;**********The CFG ...

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3dfb3192-622f-452a-8f21-b8106baa8377&displaylang=en This optional update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail. This update was released in June 2005.  

Huh, Why? Source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jun05/06-01OfficeXMLFormatPR.asp REDMOND, Wash. -- June 1, 2005 -- In a move to bring new levels of data interoperability to its customers and new market opportunities to technology providers throughout the industry, Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is adopting ...

Interesting Blog from Michael! Source: http://blogs.brnets.com/michael/archive/2005/04/26/512.aspx ....A question that I've answered three times in the last week: it seems to take a long time for my Offline Address Book to get updated in Outlook. I'm using cached mode in Outlook. How can I force an update to happen? Answer: A good overview ...

Oh wow, didn't know about this until Eileen Blogged it! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8B081F3A-B7D0-4B16-B8AF-5A6322F4FD01&displaylang=en The Personal Folders Backup download creates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2000 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of ...