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South African TV show evangelises open source
Talkback One example would be open office an operating system developed by open source programmers to compete with microsofts Office packages like XP. Open office has all the functions XP has for example a word processor, e-mail and internet browsers, image...
[January 14, 2005, 10:23]
Sun releases pricing for StarOffice
News Anyone on Office 95 or 97 switching to Office XP is going to have the same retraining cost," Chin said. Microsoft asserts it isn't working on any responses to the arrival of StarOffice -- though it perhaps wasn't a coincidence that the company...
[May 15, 2002, 10:14]
Microsoft investigates zero-day WordPad flaw
News According to Microsoft security advisory 960906, the WordPad flaw only affects users of Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.
[December 11, 2008, 11:53]
Office delay, Licensing 6 customers pay
News But Office 2003 is further behind than was Office XP at the same juncture in the release schedule. Analysts use Office XP's release schedule as a guideline to estimate when Microsoft might realistically ship Office 2003.
[April 25, 2003, 11:51]
What Do We Expect from Netbooks?
Blog Comment I'm running XP on this, so after stripping it down to the bare bones and killing off the drive indexing, it will happily stream video from the likes of youtube and the BBC i player. I find the atom 1.6ghz very capable when running on a debloated XP...
[March 30, 2009, 8:58]
Seizing opportunities to go open source
News MS Office XP You check with one of your favourite software vendors, and you find out that you can get away with upgrading to Microsoft Windows XP (the Win98 licenses are the same price), but you'll have to buy the full standard version of Microsoft...
[November 4, 2003, 10:45]
MS licensing: Pay now or pay more later
News Upgrade Advantage disappears after the deadline, and only the XP versions of Office or Windows would be considered current. In the case of Office or Windows, that is either version 2000 or XP. Companies on older software, such as Office 97 or...
[May 22, 2002, 9:25]
Windows JPEG exploit goes public
News The flaw affects various versions of at least a dozen Microsoft software applications and operating systems, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Office XP, Office 2003, Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, Project, Visio, Picture It and...
[September 23, 2004, 8:45]
Code leak spurs Windows Server 2003 piracy
News With the release of Office XP in May 2001 and Windows XP about six months later, Microsoft added a piracy-fighting tool known as product activation. Two volume-licence code keys also leaked out ahead of the release of Windows XP, but the company...
[April 8, 2003, 7:28]
Office Communicator 2007 review
Reviews We installed the trial version of OC 2007onto two PCs: one was a virtual machine hosted by VMware Workstation 5 and running Windows XP Professional; the other was a conventional desktop PC running Windows XP Professional.
[October 16, 2007, 10:15]
Microsoft sets XP update release date
News Microsoft made a similar move with its Office XP Service Pack 2, which the company released last week. Microsoft on Friday internally released a long-anticipated update to Windows XP, but delayed public availability until later in September.
[September 2, 2002, 8:01]
Microsoft fares well despite PC slowdown
News Anticipation for Office XP office applications may have contributed to slow sales. Microsoft is expected to ship Office XP to its largest licensees later this month. Desktop applications such as Office account for more than 50 percent of income.
[April 20, 2001, 8:33]
Letting in Linux
Talkback A further 5 hours and there was a workable system with Office XP installed and Norton Anti-Virus. I have Windows XP on some of my machines and SuSE 9.1 on others. On the other hand, when I installed Windows XP on my machines, the sound card is...
[July 13, 2004, 21:34]
Junkbox Printer Server
Blog In my position of “homestead-IT-director” I have a couple of users that are starting to need daily access to the HP ink-jet printer currently attached to my Windows XP Pro system. Obviously I need to setup a printer server of some kind to “divorce...
[April 12, 2009, 18:10]
Bizarre Windows 7 Downgrade/Upgrade Policies Coming
Blog Comment Also the IT guy when they first stole my XP Pro desktop computer away from me when I was out of the office and "upgraded" it by installing Visaster on top of the XP Pro created an incredible number of BS folders, shortcuts, "libraries" etc.
[June 22, 2009, 9:44]
SQL Slammer worm wreaks havoc on Internet
News It does not spread through email and will not affect most home users' computers directly, said experts, although PCs that use the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine, such as Visual Studio .Net and Office XP Developer Edition, are also...
[January 26, 2003, 9:58]
Living with desktop Linux
News It was comparable in ease-of-use, features and performance to Office XP. Despite running the software on a machine that is far from top of the line, a 500MHz Pentium III with 256MB of RAM, applications were just as responsive as they had been under...
[July 28, 2003, 16:24]
OpenOffice.org 1.1 review
Reviews We loaded a complex 3.5MB Word document into both Offices on a 700MHz Pentium II computer running XP (chosen as OpenOffice is frequently installed on older computers). Installation under Windows XP is simple: unzip the distribution and run setup.
[October 20, 2003, 9:45]
ViaVoice Pro USB Edition 9.0 review
Reviews Even Office XP's own speech engine can't do this; and ViaVoice 9.0 seems to take dictation faster than the previous version, too. Unlike the speech engine bundled with Office XP, ViaVoice navigates the Web -- through Internet Explorer, Netscape...
[July 18, 2002, 11:56]
Taiwan: Open-source pressure won MS price cut
News Starting 15 March, Microsoft Windows XP and Office XP will see promotion markdowns in Taiwan of between 10 percent to 20 percent. The Redmond, Washington-based company also agreed to sell components of Office XP, such as Word and Excel...
[March 3, 2003, 15:07]
