Microsoft Office
SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide, 1st Edition
By James Pyles, Christopher M. Buechler, Bob Fox, Murray Gordon, Michael Lotter,...
For any organization that wants to use Windows SharePoint Services to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, this book shows administrators of all levels how to get up and running with this powerful and popular set of collaboration tool...
[Publish Date: September 2007]
Google Apps: The Missing Manual, 1st Edition
By Nancy Conner
This comprehensive and easy-to-follow new book teaches you how to use the new web-based applications from Google that are providing a viable alternative to Microsoft Office for many businesses. While Google's office suite shows a lot of promise, navi...
[Publish Date: May 2008]
Office 2007: The Missing Manual, 1st Edition
By Chris Grover, Matthew MacDonald, E. A. Vander Veer
Quickly learn the most useful features of Microsoft Office 2007 with our easy to read four-in-one guide. This fast-paced book gives you the basics of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access so you can start using the new versions of these major Office app...
[Publish Date: April 2007]
Google Apps Hacks, 1st Edition
By Philipp Lenssen
With 100,000 businesses running trials of Google Office, the venerable Microsoft Office suite has a serious challenger. But can Google's web apps make the cut? With scores of clever hacks, workarounds, and other undocumented tips, this book helps you...
[Publish Date: April 2008]
Microsoft OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog
By Todd Ogasawara
Microsoft announced its Document Interoperability Initiative and the release of version 1.1 of the translator between ODF and Open XML for Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet) and Microsoft PowerPoint (presentation) applications. Press release: Microsoft Launches Document Interoperability Initiative The odd thing is that nothing...
[Publish Date: March 07, 2008]
A Computing Future from Microsoft: Large and Cheap Displays - O'Reilly Radar
By Brady Forrest
Chris Pratley, the head of Microsoft's Office Labs, gave the PICNIC audience a peek into the future they envision when planning their products. What is that future? It was encapsulated in the above video that they made a year ago. Some of the technologies (Augmented Reality and realtime language translation for example) have already come to the fruition (and they are going to need to make a new video soon before it all happens).
[Publish Date: September 24, 2009]
Where everyone knows your name: ODF 1.1 formula support in Office SP2 - ...
By Rick Jelliffe
Aslightly interesting standards aspect to the ODF 1.1 interoperability problems that MS Office SP2 is caught up in. To my mind either the problem is in the short term only and intrinsic to the ODF feature, or the problem does not lie with Microsoft for making their choice, nor with other implementers for making their choices, but with the ratty choice of markup used for this feature in ODF 1.n itself.
[Publish Date: May 08, 2009]
The limits of standards in OOXML and ODF office suites - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Andy Oram
Nobody expected Microsoft to make its proprietary OOXML format really work with products that support ODF. But an office suite has to hook into a huge number of outside pieces in its environment. We're just going to have to live with a fuzz factor.
[Publish Date: May 20, 2009]
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac: What's New? - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Todd Ogasawara
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is out. And, here's what's new... Microsoft really likes to have multiple versions of the same product. There are five versions of Windows Vista. And, there will be eight versions of Windows Server 2008 when it is released. So, we should be happy there are only three versions of Office for Mac 2008 to choose from :-) All three versions come with the five core applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Entourage, and Messenger. Office for the Mac 2008 (which I'll call standard edition here) is US$399.95 (239.95 upgrade). Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition is $499.95 ($299.95 upgrade). And, Office for Mac 2008 Home and Student Edition is $149.95. The Media Edition adds the Microsoft Expression (60-day trial edition available). The Home and Student Edition doesn't have Office-specifc...
[Publish Date: January 16, 2008]
Microsoft Office 2008 ID 502 Installation Issue - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By Todd Ogasawara
I installed Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac over the weekend and ran into a couple of issues. Even though I was aware of the ID 502 installation issue, I was still surprised by what I saw (though I shouldn't have been). I'm still debating whether to sync my Windows Mobile smartphone with Entourage 2008. Mark/Space provided some interesting information about Missing Sync for Windows Mobile.
[Publish Date: January 30, 2008]
Top 10 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Office to Google Apps - Off the ...
By Chad Capellman
Author Nancy Conner offers 10 reasons why you should consider making the leap from Microsoft Office to Google Apps. 1. The vast majority of Google's services are free, as in totally, completely, won't-cost-you-a-dime free. 2. With a Google Account,...
[Publish Date: June 02, 2008]
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.2 Critical Update - O'Reilly Digital ...
By Todd Ogasawara
Microsoft patched an Excel 2008 remote execution problem. So, you might want to go get the Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.2 update.
[Publish Date: August 13, 2008]
