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Archive: Microsoft Office

February 22, 2007

Google Apps

Google apps now have a fee version (well, free until April 30th) -- for $50 / year - the 10GB mail option is worth it for a lot of people I bet... Also, check this out -

The 99.9% uptime guarantee for Gmail is offered to organizations using Google Apps Premier Edition.

Google Apps - Link.

Related:

• Google goes after Microsoft with software suite - Link.
• A Google Package Challenges Microsoft - Link.
• Google to launch business software - Link.

The terms of use is like 20 pages, I'm going to try and read it later.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Feb 22, 2007 08:00 AM
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February 15, 2007

Use Microsoft Office Excel to read live RSS stock news feeds

I didn't try this out yet (and it scares me a little, it's an EXE) but if you're looking to get live RSS feeds and stock quotes -in- Excel, here's an add-on (and how-to) to do just that...

You can easily get Excel to act as a live stock RSS news reader with a free add-on. What's cool about this, as opposed to using a regular news reader, is that you can have it update the news depending on the stock symbol you are interested in. Plus, you can also add live stock quotes as well.

And simply by pressing F9, your news will udpate to the latest news about your stocks!

instructables : Hacking Microsoft Office Excel to read live RSS stock news feeds - Link.

More:

Esquotes - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Feb 15, 2007 02:01 PM
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February 14, 2007

March 11 to April 1, all meetings are suspect

The Associated Press warns us all about the dreaded March 11 and April 1 problem...

For three weeks this March and April, Microsoft Corp. warns that users of its calendar programs ''should view any appointments... as suspect until they communicate with all meeting invitees.''

Wow, that's sort of jarring -- is something treacherous afoot?

Actually, it's a potential problem in any software that was programmed before a 2005 law decreed that daylight-saving time would start three weeks earlier and end one week later, beginning this year. Congress decided that more early evening daylight would translate into energy savings.

Software created earlier is set to automatically advance its timekeeping by one hour on the first Sunday in April, not the second Sunday in March (that's March 11 this year).

The result is a glitch reminiscent of the Y2K bug, when cataclysmic crashes were feared if computers interpreted the year 2000 as 1900 and couldn't reconcile time appearing to move backward. This bug is much less threatening, but it could cause head-scratching episodes when some computers are an hour off.

Microsoft warns of calendar problem - [via] Link.

To fix all this, download the "Microsoft Office Outlook Tool: Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook" - Link.

Posted by Phillip Torrone | Feb 14, 2007 07:50 AM
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