The last Microsoft Office 2003 product was released nearly 5 years ago. Per the Microsoft Support Lifecycle, the Mainstream Support phase runs for 5 years after the release of a product. In accordance with this policy, Office 2003 will leave the Mainstream Support phase on April 14th, 2009. Th.. more »

I know quite a few customers have run into this issue, and we have a fix in the pipeline which should see the light of day in the August CU, but to help just in case others come across this we thought it worth getting this information out there (Thanks Rob).  First some details, and then the suggested workaround. The problem and fix is for P.. more »

The KB article in now live at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971620 and localized versions will be following along.  One thing to mention is that if you have multiple SKU’s installed and you try and re-license you may get a message saying your key is not valid.  This can happen if for instance you try and use a Project Server 2007 key and yo.. more »

A number of Office 2007 language interface packs are now available for several new languages, including, Uzbek (spoken by 20 million people in Uzbekistan),     Assamese (official language of Assam, in North-East India, spoken by 13 million people).. more »

 A few days ago, I discovered an analysis of our Office 2007 contextual speller carried out by Prof. Graeme Hirst, from the University of Toronto:  An Evaluation of the Contextual Spelling Checker of Microsoft Office Word 2007. We have discussed this new context-sensitive speller on several occasions on this blog (as well as here) and it is nice to.. more »

Are you ready to take the next step, and make the move from writing tools that use InfoPath, to writing InfoPath itself?  We currently have open positions in Development, and Test.  To search for positions on the InfoPath team, have a look at these positions on the Microsoft careers site:  .. more »

InfoPath data connections can be one of the most powerful features of the product.  However, sometimes the out-of-box support for various data sources just doesn't seem to cut it when you get out into the field.  How in the world can I get data from an Excel spreadsheet  into my InfoPath form?  A typical response might include externally auto.. more »

Global finals of the world’s largest technology competition begin today in Egypt... more »

One of the cool aspects of being on the MIX Online team is that we get to participate and speak at several conferences. Members of our team have made appearances at various conferences over the past year including FOWA, An Event Apart, SxSW, Web 2.0 Expo, SIGGRAPH 2008, MIX09, PDC08, Google IO and Web Design World (Boston). I'm sure I'm forgetting .. more »

Posted by Mike Hintze Associate General Counsel I wanted to take a moment to highlight an important advance  in protecting consumers online.  The  Self-Regulatory Principles For Online Behavioral Advertising   announced today require...(read more).. more »

Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) worked closely with the Internet Explorer product team to test Windows Internet Explorer 8, and is now deploying it across the enterprise. With Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft IT is incorporating new features such as Web Slices to improve end user productivity, maintaining compatibility with older .. more »

Network Access Protection (NAP), a powerful tool available within Windows Server 2008 which helps protect networks from malicious software and other threats. Microsoft IT (MSIT) uses NAP to manage network health policy compliance. MSIT leverages NAP to institute network access requirements, to create policies that verify those requirements, and to .. more »

Microsoft IT uses Windows Server 2008 to support the file server workload for users worldwide. The upgrade to Windows Server 2008 enabled Microsoft IT to provide higher service levels for performance and availability while significantly reducing server counts, operational complexity, and costs... more »

Although Facebook is publishing some of its own Facebook Connect widgets like the Live Stream widget and the Comments Box widget to help websites be more social, major widget platforms themselves are starting to integrate Facebook Connect in their own more specialized products. Just a few days ago, widget platform Widgetbox soft launched Facebook .. more »

We’ve heard a lot of people say the iPhone’s built-in support for YouTube video uploading is going to make a huge impact on the number of people posting videos online. That number could grow even more now that Facebook’s upcoming Facebook for iPhone 3.0 app is going to include video uploads - especially amongst people who want to .. more »

Live streaming on Facebook is now more affordable for smal businesses and individuals thanks to StreamAPI, a new product from live-streaming company Stickam. StreamAPI is built around Facebook’s Live Stream widget, which was recently opened up to anyone wanting to add a dynamic stream of Facebook status updates around live events on their .. more »

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