Microsoft hits back at Dick bashing

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

On Thursday a scathing opinion piece appeared in The New York Times written by former Microsoft VP Dick Brass who claims Microsoft 'no longer brings us the future'. Dick Brass was a vice president at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004 and worked primarily on e-book software and Microsoft's Tablet PC computing ...

Ban on Microsoft Word and Office sales begins today

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Microsoft has been the center of a legal battle from a small patent owning company, i4i for many months for infringing on it's "Custom XML" patent which is included in Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 and is part of Office 2007 suites. Recently, Microsoft lost the court battle against I4i, ...

Microsoft charges extra fee for Rental Rights Licensing

Monday, January 11th, 2010

In the past, when an organization would rent out computers to an institution, business, or whomever, the company would purchase the computers with standard Windows and Office licenses, and then ship those computers to their renters. According to Microsoft, these companies are in violation of their software license agreements. To alter ...

Office 2010 build 4730 leaks to the web

Monday, January 11th, 2010

An internal build of the upcoming Microsoft Office 2010 has leaked to the web according to Wzor. The build comes in at a staggering 3.51GB which is significantly larger than the public beta build which was at 749mb; the leaked build is tagged with the build number 14.0.4730.1007 There is no ...