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A plain computer illiterate guy rings tech support to report that his computer is faulty.
Tech: What’s the problem? User: There is smoke coming out of the power supply. Tech: [...]
Microsoft introduced the .docx file format in its new Office and Word applications and wants it to replace the commonly used doc format. The problem with the change from doc to docx is that many users are still working with prior versions of Word or no Microsoft product at all and face the problem that [...]
Also tagged copy and paste, doc format, docx file format, docx files, format rtf, microsoft product, modern computer, open office, paste functions, trial version, two choices, word applications, word processing applicationI’m a late adopter of Vista for a few reasons.
One, I don’t spend money on unproven commericial software that is fresh out the gate. It’s always got bugs, and more often more bugs than open source software of a similar ilk (comparing many distros of Linux to Vista for example).
Two, I was relatively happy with [...]
Microsoft will release the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 in the first half of 2008 that will have full support for web standards. And the new browser will be known as “Windows Internet Explorer 8?.
OK, I’ll believe it, when I see it. Something from Microsoft that actually adheres to internationally agreed standards that haven’t [...]
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Open Office Extensions
I much prefer Open Office to the Microsoft version. OK, yes it’s free, but if MS Office was such a good suite, I wouldn’t hesitate to shell out the bucks for it. It has some good ideas, and some good integration ideas, but it’s slow, and unwieldy, and that’s on a machine with an [...]
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