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Office 97 Will Include Bob-like Help
News Called Office Assistant, the new help facility takes the form of cartoon characters who suggest smarter working tips after the software has recorded user actions indicative of problems, such as frequent visits to help files.
[July 18, 1996, 12:28]
Five Years Ago: Office 97 Will Include Bob-like Help
News Called Office Assistant, the new help facility takes the form of cartoon characters who suggest smarter working tips after the software has recorded user actions indicative of problems, such as frequent visits to help files.
[July 18, 2001, 7:15]
Microsoft Office 97 To Microsoft Office 2003 Migration Issues
White Papers This paper explains the basic differences between Microsoft Office 97 and the Microsoft Office System at a cursory level. It describes some changes a user might see in the menu bar user interface that relate to common functions, and what a user...
[November 7, 2004, 23:00]
Gateway Deals Office 97 Upgrades At £20
News Buyers keen to get their hands on the next version of Microsoft Office are in for a bargain. Gateway 2000 is already offering PC buyers an upgrade voucher that entitles purchasers to a £20 upgrade to Office 97 when it ships early in February 1997.
[December 20, 1996, 11:19]
Buy Office 97 Now And Get Office 2000 Free - Microsoft
News According to a Microsoft memo, those who buy Office 97 or any Office 97 application between January 1, 1999 and July 31, 1999, will be entitled to upgrade to the corresponding Office 2000 suite or application for the cost of shipping and handling.
[January 20, 1999, 15:03]
Microsoft Quashes Office 97 Piracy Fears
News Microsoft has dismissed claims it has encouraged dealers to pirate Office 97 by allowing Dell and Gateway to sell Office 97 upgrades for £20. A Microsoft spokesman said the upgrades were in the form of vouchers for buyers of new systems with pre...
[January 22, 1997, 11:01]
Microsoft Fleshes Out Office 97 Developers Edition
News Microsoft today fleshed out details of its Office 97 Developer Edition (ODE) software which it will release early next year at the same time as Office 97 end-user version. ODE is based on Visual Basic for Applications 5.0, and lets users create...
[November 7, 1996, 16:58]
Hole Opens Office 97 Users To Hijack
News The vulnerable version of the engine was shipped with Microsoft Office 97. If a user with the vulnerability is running Microsoft Internet Explorer and visits a Web page with an embedded Office document (such as an Excel spreadsheet), viewing the...
[July 30, 1999, 16:32]
Five Years Ago: Microsoft Fires Office 97 Into Retail Channel
News Microsoft Office 97, Standard Edition retails at £350, and has an upgrade price of £170. The Gates empire said nearly 25,000 hours had been spent on usability testing for the product which is now available for retail.
[January 19, 2002, 6:31]
Windows '97: Office 97 Gets CD-ROM Training Title
News The release roll-out comes as part of 70 new titles.
[February 27, 1997, 8:57]
MS Posts Cure For Office 97 Conversion Blues
News The firm this week put a suite of tools including file format converters, hints and tips, and extensive documentation on its Web site for free download. Likely to be the most popular tool of all will be a convertor that lets Word 97 users save...
[February 27, 1997, 15:30]
Demo '97: Tool Lets You Be In The Office When You're Not
News His thesis: that he was going to be able to pretend to be in the office, because a Data Race server had been installed there, attached to the office phone exchange. Installation works out around $600 per user; even here in the US, if you leave the...
[February 12, 1997, 11:47]
News Burst: Office SR2 Fixes The Bugs SR1 Couldn't Reach
News Microsoft last week released Office SR2 - a new service release for Office 97. SR2 includes fixes for several bugs in Office 97 not fixed in the February SR1 release, including the Excel 97 re-calculation patch, which solves a bug that can prevent...
[September 21, 1998, 6:59]
A Year Ago: MS Dismisses Office Piracy Fears
News Microsoft has dismissed claims it has encouraged dealers to pirate Office 97 by allowing Dell and Gateway to sell Office 97 upgrades for £20. A Microsoft spokesman said the upgrades were in the form of vouchers for buyers of new systems with pre...
[January 22, 1998, 9:39]
One Year Ago: MS Posts Office Patch
News Microsoft has posted a patch that combines all of the available fixes for Office 97. It also fixes some e-mail problems found in Office 97. The Service Release patch alleviates several glitches that have made it hard to share documents written on...
[August 11, 1998, 6:00]
Office 2000: MS Confirms UK Prices And Eleven Flavours
News Microsoft has confirmed UK prices for the latest version of its popular applications suite, Office 2000, due to be launched on the 8th June. The software giant will be offering no less than eleven different versions of Office 2000.
[May 11, 1999, 11:55]
Born Again: Clippy Returns To Haunt Office XP
News The animated assistant didn't add much value to Office in the first place, he said. Most people using Office are pretty high-end users, and they don't need an animated thing to help them do that. Clippy, the cute but much maligned animated paper...
[June 1, 2001, 9:04]
MS Plans March 9 Ship For Office SME 2.0
News Instead, the firm will tout Office Small Business Edition (SBE) version 2.0, a new release scheduled for March 9. The move should quell fears of a repeat of last year's debacle which saw non-US PC vendors complaining of paying substantially more...
[February 25, 1998, 10:24]
Prize-winning Response Of The Week
News This week the booty goes to Alan Patil for his comments on Gateway dealing Office 97 upgrades at £20 a throw. It's interesting to see Gateway offering a virtually free upgrade to Office 97 and Dell saying it's stupid.
[January 10, 1997, 17:15]
File Formats - MS V OpenOffice
Talkback For older versions of MS formats Microsoft made the National Archives (UK) use Vista running Windows Virtual PC running Windows 3.11 running Office 95 (which all require licences per machine). After blocking older file formats in Office 2003, they...
[January 30, 2008, 8:20]
