Office Archive – The Technopath

Microsoft Project Natal’s tuned down version coming to PC?

Posted by Uzair Sajid on June 12, 2010.

Microsoft is all set to reveal the final version and name of its innovative gesture based control system, Project Natal for the Xbox 360 in two days at E3 2010. While we would finally all the details, including pricing and release dates for the Xbox 360 version, the PC version for Project Natal is still up in the air....

Office 2010 FREE upgrade program for Office 2007 users

Posted by Uzair Sajid on February 5, 2010.

Microsoft, on their Partner Network’s blog have revealed a Free upgrade program for prospective Microsoft Office 2007 customers. According to the promotion, if you buy Office 2007 during March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010 – then you be eligible for a free upgrade to Office 2010 on the following terms....

Office 2010 RC (Release Candidate) available for Download

Posted by Uzair Sajid on February 5, 2010.

Office 2010 RC, the next logical step in the Office 2010 Beta program is now available for download via Microsoft Connect, for all the participants of the Technical Beta program. Microsoft is in the process of sending out invites via E-mail, so if you haven’t received yours yet, then don’t fret because it does usu...

Office 2010 Beta Download now Public

Posted by Uzair Sajid on November 20, 2009.

Update: Office 2010 RC (Release Candidate) is now available for download....

Microsoft’s Next Gen Office Wall Prototype [Video]

Posted by Uzair Sajid on September 27, 2009.

You might be wondering why I’m posting so much Microsoft stuff lately. It primarily because they’re coming up with so much innovation this year that its really hard to pass up on anything. And if they’re able to market even half of these research projects, we’d be well on our way into the digital interactive wo...

Office 2010 Feature: Publish Outlook Calendars to Office.com

Posted by Uzair Sajid on September 7, 2009.

I’ve been playing around with the recent build of Microsoft Office 2010 (4417) looking for significant changes from the previous Technical Preview build. While some features were quite obvious from the screenshots, there was one new Online Experience feature which I couldn’t figure out what it does. While the insta...

Microsoft Office 2010 Build 4417 Beta 1 leaked screenshots

Posted by Uzair Sajid on August 30, 2009.

Update: Office 2010 Beta build 14.0.4536.1000 has been released for public download....

Microsoft Office coming to Nokia Symbian

Posted by Uzair Sajid on August 13, 2009.

There were rumors that Microsoft would be announcing something relating to a deal with Nokia, and as always, there were lots of speculation. Was Nokia going Windows Phone? Well that’s too good to be true. What actually happened is that Symbain would now get an official Office Mobile version....

Office 2010 features: Paste Options

Posted by Uzair Sajid on July 16, 2009.

Continuing the series of posts about the new and useful features of Office 2010, I bring you Paste Options. Paste options have been there almost all along, but Office 2010 organizes them in a more powerful way....

Office 2010 Feature: Protected View

Posted by Uzair Sajid on July 15, 2009.

I stumbled upon a rather interesting feature while messing around with the Office 2010 Technical Preview. Its called Protected View which kicks in automatically when you open a document that came from an outside source, like the Internet. A good measure I must say, which would protect your system from ...