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Office 2003

6/29/2008

How to access MS office files online?

Using MS Office, users can now be more productive by viewing, sharing, and editing their Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents over the Internet using a web browser.


6/24/2008

Demo exploits posted for unpatched MS Word vulnerability

A security researcher has released demo exploits for what appears to be a critical – unpatched — memory corruption vulnerability affecting the ubiquitous Microsoft Word software program.


4/21/2008

Microsoft should do this: Exchange plus Hotmail

One of the reasons cited (by Cap Gemini, for example) for investigating Google Apps for Enterprise as an alternative to Microsoft Office is the cost of rolling out Exchange email to every worker in an organization.


4/14/2008

Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Overview

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (VSTO 2005) provides a robust platform for developing solutions integrated with the Microsoft Office System using managed code.


4/4/2008

Microsoft to patch Vista SP1, Server 2008 next week

One of the critical Windows updates scheduled for next Tuesday affects every version of the operating system Microsoft supports, including the just-released Service Pack 1 for Vista and the newest server operating system, Windows Server 2008.


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Info Bridge Framework

1/6/2008

Microsoft Business Process Alliance Grows

"Through the Business Process Alliance, customers benefit from a powerful set of end-to-end tools for automating and optimizing their business processes, without custom integration," said Burley Kawasaki, director of product management in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft.


12/2/2007

Changing Course for 'Oslo'

Oslo won't be a single product. Instead, it will ship as updates to a number of Microsoft products, with code names such as BizTalk Server "6," Visual Studio "10," .NET Framework "4" and System Center "5." Details are foggy, but what is known is that BizTalk Server is going to undergo significant changes.


11/20/2007

IBM Takes On Microsoft With WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli Products

IBM (NYSE:IBM) is stepping up its bid to derail Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)'s unified communications onslaught by unveiling new or enhanced versions Tuesday of its WebSphere, Rational and Tivoli products.


5/5/2005

Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework 1.5 Resource Kit

The Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework 1.5 Resource Kit includes tools, documentation, and sample solutions. The Resource Kit is a useful aid for new or experienced Information Bridge Framework solution developers.


4/17/2005

PART 2: A Complete Walkthrough of the Microsoft Information Bridge Framework

of this article is to expand upon the previous, Part one, walkthrough by incorporating some of the more advanced features of the Information Bridge Framework (IBF). In Part one, I provided a brief introduction to IBF and why it was developed into a product. I also created a sample walkthrough that demonstrated the basic features of IBF 1.5. Part one should have provided you with a good starting point to create a more robust IBF application.


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Research ServiceZ

12/15/2007

MySQL Releases Database Connector Beta

A beta version of MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1 is available, with Unicode support.


12/3/2007

Microsoft Boosts Tools for adCenter, Live Search

Microsoft unveils online ad and search utilities to help advertisers and search engine experts do their jobs better.


11/28/2007

Microsoft's Enterprise Search Server

Experts say Microsoft Search Server Express and Search Server probably will be judged initially as being "good enough" for divisions, departments or workgroups. "Being able to do it for free at an entry level, being able to install it easily makes it compelling to look at," says Jim Murphy, an analyst with AMR Research.


9/17/2004

Microsoft Releases Resarch Development Extras Toolkit

This toolkit contains sample research services built to help you learn how to use the Research Service Development Extras. The samples are provided in Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft Visual C#® languages. You can find them in the Samples directory included with this toolkit.


9/16/2004

Microsoft Launches Research Services Portal

Microsoft is collecting a great collection of research service resources. Check it out.


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Smart TagZ

7/1/2008

Flash Sites Become Searchable

Adobe announced Tuesday that pages inside Flash-based sites will be indexed in search sites such as Google and Yahoo!


6/13/2008

Show Your Data in a Tag Cloud with XPath Expressions

As with many of my other posts, I am using an xml file as my datasource (though you could use any datasource supported by the DataView). My sample xml file (Sales.xml) includes a list of sales people and their sales numbers for a given period.


5/12/2008

Peek at Service Pack 1 (Christin Boyd)

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is not finished yet, but we do have a beta version of the documentation ready for you to read! You can learn about some of the features that you'll see later this year when we release SP1.


5/4/2008

Understanding VSTO Smart Tags and COM Smart Tags (McLean Schofield)

The document-level projects for Excel and Word in VSTO (in Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008) provide a simple object model that you can use to create smart tags for documents and workbooks.


4/14/2008

Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Overview

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office (VSTO 2005) provides a robust platform for developing solutions integrated with the Microsoft Office System using managed code.


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