Office XP Service Pack Released
News The service pack also addresses a problem with the wording of the German privacy policy and the inability to set Ukrainian as the default language when using the US or Ukrainian version of Office XP. Volume licensees also had to move to the current...
[August 21, 2002, 11:27]
Microsoft Office 11: Access Denied
News Limiting the final version of Office 11 to Windows 2000 and XP would potentially encourage users of older operating systems to upgrade, but it could further erode relations between Microsoft and business customers already stung by increases in...
[October 30, 2002, 8:00]
Major Price Hikes Force Office XP Users To Upgrade
News For Office, that is version XP, which the company won't formally launch until May 31. When asked if XP is the current version for Office, he responded, "That is correct. But because Microsoft doesn't offer version upgrades to Office XP from Office...
[May 14, 2001, 8:17]
MS Licensing: Pay Now Or Pay More Later
News In the case of Office or Windows, that is either version 2000 or XP. Upgrade Advantage disappears after the deadline, and only the XP versions of Office or Windows would be considered current. Companies on older software, such as Office 97 or...
[May 22, 2002, 9:25]
Microsoft Changes Course On Licensing
News A company might pay for Windows XP, but then pay again for the right to access Windows 2000 Server and on top of that for the Office suite's Outlook e-mail and calendar program to access Exchange Server -- after already paying separately for the...
[December 3, 2002, 8:08]
Microsoft Extends Deadline For License Change
News Microsoft introduced product activation with Office XP and extended it to Windows XP, in part to help fight software piracy. This process locks Windows XP to the hardware configuration. The most recent licensing change, announced 1 October, frees...
[October 8, 2001, 11:00]
Norton AntiVirus 2003 review
Reviews Our test system was a Compaq Evo W4000 with a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 processor and 512MB of DDR RAM, running Windows XP Professional. We did not run the Office Productivity portion of the benchmark because it incorporates McAfee’s VirusScan 5.13.
[September 10, 2002, 7:25]
Microsoft Weeds Out Office XP Bugs
News Since late October, Microsoft has offered a reduced-cost, full academic version of Office XP Standard through major retailers, such as Staples, Target and Wal-Mart, among others, for US$149. The same "nonacademic" Office XP Standard version costs...
[December 14, 2001, 10:56]
