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With Windows 7 now out in the wild for almost a month, Microsoft has time to unleash another beta product on us for testing.  This beta comes in the form of Microsoft Office 2010.  The Office 2010 beta will feature everything minus the online version, which is currently being tested… Continue Reading »

It seems that ugly looking 18-button having OpenOfficeMouse is not quite backed by OpenOffice. According to the back story here, the OpenOfficeMouse was presented at the recent OOoConference in Italy and that is where the story should have ended, at least with the OpenOfficeMouse name anyway. As I mentioned in… Continue Reading »

OpenOffice, in partnership with WarMouse have unveiled the OpenOfficeMouse. And with that, after I realized that this was not a joke of a product, and after I finished gazing at the uglier than necessary design, I then realized that this is most likely overkill for most users. That said, the… Continue Reading »

Once again Microsoft has come back with the Ultimate Steal for Office Ultimate 2007.  The offer will allow current students (of a registered school) that have a valid .edu email address to pick up a copy of Office Ultimate 2007 for just $59.95. For the purpose of this offer, the… Continue Reading »

Download: iPod version (mp4) | Audio version (mp3) Welcome back to InterrupTech.  Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry.  Unlike other tech shows, we’ve got a clock that tells us when it’s time to move on to the next topic. This week we cover: Microsoft… Continue Reading »

This week Microsoft released a technical preview of many of the features included in its latest version of MS Office.  While Microsoft was showing off all of Office 2010’s bells and whistles, the company quietly ended support for MS Office 2000 yesterday.  The 2000 version was released June of 1999… Continue Reading »

Your cheap little Linux netbook just got a boost in credibility, or will get a boost when Microsoft drops the web app version of Office 2010 next year.  To date, Linux netbooks or anything else running the OS had to rely on non-Microsoft programs to read, edit and save in… Continue Reading »

If you log on the Microsoft Office website, you will get to view a newly posted trailer for the company’s 2010 version of the productivity software.  The trailer teases out the features to expect from the newest Office suite.  Besides viewing the trailer, you can also sign up to get… Continue Reading »

Microsoft has released its second service pack today for Office 2007.  The service pack will provide a slew of minor updates that will improve functionality for the Office program.  Most of the new features will allow for performance enhancements as well as support for more file formats. You can download… Continue Reading »

Some new sources are pointing to a slightly modified release schedule for Windows 7.  Though still unconfirmed from Microsoft, it looks like a Release Candidate version will be available for a select group of testers during April and then made available for public testing in late May 2009. While the… Continue Reading »