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Ex-WP Staff Produce 1Mb Word Processor
News In a wide swing away from the route of their former employer, the staff of Word Place - a Utah-based startup led by former WP CEO Pete Peterson - hope to convince users that a sub-1Mb piece of code is all you need for most word processing tasks.
[June 26, 1997, 9:30]
Melissa Virus: Man Charged
News Bubb, a New Jersey deputy attorney general, said AOL's information led authorities to a telephone number, then to the place where the Word macro virus was posted to the Internet. The technology assigns a unique serial number to files produced by...
[April 6, 1999, 8:42]
Lockdown The Desktop With Policies
News Put those policies through the normal corporate approval policy, publish the approved policies on the intranet and make sure departmental managers in the organisation get the word out to their teams. I can answer that question in just one word...
[April 29, 2003, 10:57]
Business Agility Could Boost UK Plc By £68bn
News It has become a bit of a new buzz word," she said. One of the reasons that agility seems to be bubbling up as a discussion point in business IT and, in Boyd's words, as a both a "buzz word and as a real thing happening in industry" is because only...
[July 15, 2002, 16:06]
Melissa Mutates: Virus Variants Detected
News The virus is largely a simple Word macro -- a script for automating tasks within Word documents. Melissa generally spreads when a user opens up an infected Word 8 or World 9 document -- in either Office 97 or 2000 -- and gives permission to execute...
[March 30, 1999, 11:27]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback The word ‘Navigation’ is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in...
[September 22, 2005, 10:40]
Court Delays Microsoft Vs Lindows Trial
Talkback Presumably this court action is just another stage in Microsoft's bid to own the word "windows", and by extension "window", outright. How can anyone seriously claim proprietorship of such a commonplace word as "window", whether in singular or...
[December 1, 2003, 14:37]
Help Microsoft Stay True To Its Word
Talkback Yeah every day down the pub I here 'the world would be such a better place if we had a word processor format other than Word' :)
[October 6, 2005, 9:34]
Measure Up With The Horizontal Ruler: Set Margins, Indents, And Tabs
White Papers In Word, one can quickly set up margins, tab stops, and paragraph indents in one convenient place: the horizontal ruler. The horizontal ruler is the bar across the top of the Word document with measurements marked out on it.
[May 4, 2008, 0:00]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback The key word here is 200 years ago. Adebayo Omo-Dare : "Under your principle one should be forced to say that the US is a terrilble place because 200yrs ago it used slaves as the backbone of its " Thats the difference between Americ ad Europe.
[January 31, 2004, 16:03]
Clc Travel
Talkback I have just had exactly the same call - word 4 word, so it must be a scam. I will certainly not be calling the number was it after you took place in a shopping survey?
[May 18, 2006, 13:09]
Fortinet Settles GPL Violation Suit
Talkback Keep in mind that analyst has the root word "Anal" in it. This is from the state of thier heads- that body part's placed in their anal canal and solidly locked in place. I've been alternately amazed and appalled for years at the fact that execs of...
[April 27, 2005, 0:16]
More Space And More Time
White Papers In the Oracle world, a discussion of data growth quickly leads to the word tablespace, which designates the logical structure administrators use to manage the placement and growth of data in a database.
[October 11, 2006, 0:00]
MAS 200 Fits Oregon Chai To A Tea
White Papers Using Custom Office, staff members can work directly within MAS 200 to set up new accounts, automatically generate welcome and thank you letters, determine credit limits, explain terms of sale and perform other tasks in Microsoft Word.
[October 11, 2003, 0:00]
Copy And Print Company Finds Complete Printing Solution
White Papers The legal documents also required Bates numbering on each page so the customer had to create a Word document with the Bates numbers at the bottom of the page. After consulting with Ricoh and determining the best approach for both cost- and time...
[October 8, 2004, 0:00]
RightNote
Downloads Features word processing, spreadsheet and source code type notes as well as an in-built full text search engine. RightNote is a note-taker and note-organizer, that allows you to store and organize all bits of different information in a single place...
[April 16, 2008, 8:31]
Judge Rules That Microsoft Must Be Split In Two
News In an order that basically followed a earlier DoJ filing word-for-word, Jackson Wednesday gave Microsoft four months to submit a divestiture plan once the judgment is in place. Calling Microsoft "untrustworthy," US district judge Thomas Penfield...
[June 8, 2000, 16:20]
A Year Ago: Judge Rules That Microsoft Must Be Split In Two
News In an order that basically followed a earlier DoJ filing word-for-word, Jackson Wednesday gave Microsoft four months to submit a divestiture plan once the judgment is in place. Calling Microsoft "untrustworthy," US district judge Thomas Penfield...
[June 8, 2001, 6:28]
Internet Explorer 'most Influential' Tech Product
News Second place in the poll went to Microsoft Word, selected by 56 percent of respondents. Windows 95 was third (50 percent), followed by Microsoft Excel and Apple's iPod in joint fourth place (49 percent).
[July 31, 2007, 16:04]
The ABC Of Open Source In Schools
Leader Sir may not like getting to grips with a new word processing package (assuming he ever mastered MS Word in the first place), but a quick trip to the Natural History Museum should get him up to speed on the perils of failing to evolve.
[May 16, 2005, 14:00]
