MetaFilter posts tagged with microsoft and office

It is a roleplaying game made in excel.

boo_radley — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:35:46 -0800

Arena.Xlsm is the fever dream of a Canadian Chartered Accountant with a love of roleplaying games (Hat tip to Special K over at mefightclub!)

Ribbon Hero

armage — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:04:11 -0800

What's the most unique video game to be released in the past five years? Guitar Hero? Nah. DJ Hero? Uh-uh. Ribbon Hero. Impressions from game designers and the tech press are positive, and praise it for being a truly innovative training tool. (via mefi's own waxy)

Microsoft Office 2010: The Movie

marienbad — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:31:42 -0800

2 Minute Ad for MS office after the travesty of the windows 7 launch party ads, MS gets it right. SLYT

Yes, Sir, this Is War!

Muddler — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:00:48 -0800

Microsoft Office 2010 - for free, on the web. Yeah, you heard me right. "The company also announced that Office Web applications will be available in three ways: through Windows Live, where more than 400 million consumers will have access to Office Web applications at no cost; on-premises for all Office volume licensing customers including more than 90 million Office annuity customers; and via Microsoft Online Services, where customers will be able to purchase a subscription as part of a hosted offering." Not to be outdone by Google, who recently announced it was trying to take a bite out of Windows not to mention Office, Microsoft has decided to offer a web version of Office 2010 for free - and it will even support non-IE browsers.

Big day for Microsoft

bobbyelliott — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:10:12 -0800

Today is a big day for Microsoft with the launch of three key products - Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange Server 2007. User groups are already up-and-running. Vista and Office have been available for some time. But maybe this is just clever viral marketing? In spite of lots of new and improved features, Vista has not been well received by reviewers. But this has been true of every Windows version since Windows 95. One thing is certain, these versions will be the last releases that focus on the desktop rather than the Internet.

Word 97 Users Abandoned by Microsoft?

Joey Michaels — Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:08:48 -0800

Word 97 Users Abandoned by Microsoft? "Microsoft's flagship word processor has for years had a security flaw that could allow a criminal to steal computer files by "bugging" a document with a hidden code." Microsoft will fix the problem for newer versions of Word, but those of us who use Word 97 are more or less out of luck. As it turns out, the Microsoft Corporation page doesn't seem to have any easily accessible information on this issue.

Would the Mac platform collapse without Microsoft?

kirkaracha — Wed, 07 Aug 2002 09:14:56 -0800

Would the Mac platform collapse without Microsoft? BusinessWeek questions the conventional wisdom.

Forbes.com suggests

jhiggy — Wed, 02 May 2001 08:14:35 -0800

Forbes.com suggests you IT people use shareware or freeware office packages instead of that expensive Microsoft stuff.

Clippy dead - news at 11.

milnak — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:01:40 -0800

Clippy dead - news at 11. Anyone who has had to deal with "Clippy" in Microsoft's Office products will appreciate this new spin Microsoft is placing on the animated character.

Microsoft

milnak — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:22:55 -0800

Microsoft announces the product names for the next version of Windows and Office. They'll be called "Windows XP" and "Office XP", respectively.

MacOS X comes of age.

Brilliantcrank — Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:10:01 -0800

MacOS X comes of age. Microsoft has just announced that Microsoft Office will be released for the new Apple OS in the fall. "Analysts had warned that without a version of Office, or similar productivity suite, running natively under Mac OS X, Apple would face problems getting businesses to switch to the new operating system. "

Microsoft's latest security loophole

harmful — Wed, 17 May 2000 07:09:13 -0800

Microsoft's latest security loophole involves the much-hated animated paperclip "Office Assistant". Despite its ability to create or delete files, someone chose to mark it as "safe for scripting", allowing it to be controlled by script on a web page.