Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’
Microsoft: To focus on Windows Phone 7
Microsoft will not be shipping KIN to Europe this fall and will just be focusing on the development of Windows Phone 7. Their KIN and Windows Phone 7 team will collaborate by making available the technologies in KIN to the future releases of Windows Phone 7. More »
Windows 7 in the Philippines
Today marks the official public launch of Windows 7 in the Philippines. The launch will be done this afternoon at SM North EDSA’s Cyberzone. Windows 7 is the most recent publicly available operating system released by Microsoft after its predecessor, Windows Vista, was released three years ago. Though the official release date of Windows 7 in the Philippines is November 7, a lot of computer retailers are already selling licensed copies of Windows 7.
Windows 7 was officially released in the US last October 22, 2009.
iTable V.S. Microsoft Surface
With all the craze of touch screens and multi-touch technology everyone is just waiting to get their hands on these babies. The iTable and the Microsoft Surface.
Let me just give you a little clarification. The iTable is not an Apple product. It is developed by PQ labs and the Microsoft Surface is well.. Microsoft’s. So which is better, the iTable of the Microsoft Surface?
For now we can’t say much about who truly is better but we can give you a brief overview of why these beauties are to die for.
Microsoft Surface
Already agreed by most people, this multi-touch computer/table is very useful. You can utilize it for pictures, business, work, study, and more. The beautiful result of the touch is just simply amazing. The whole concept of wireless in this device is giving us a step closer to sci-fi technology similar to what you see in Matrix. One of the highlights of this device is the wireless device file sharing. You put your camera and the pictures just come out and Wham! You share your files with a flick of a wrist. We also have the convenience of shopping just by touching and dropping the credit card over the surface. Convenience at its best. More »
Internet Explorer 8 Promises Higher Security
After Google and Firefox released each of their own browsers, it sees that Microsoft is coping up with the second generation browser wars. Microsoft recently released its latest version of IE, the Internet Explorer 8 RC1 (Release Candidate 1), promising its consumers a faster, easier and safer browsing experience.
To compete with both Firefox and Chrome, Microsoft incorporated with IE some features present within the two prominent browsers. They also added several features unique to IE8.
Among the promising features of the new IE are the following: Accelerator, Visual Search, Web Slices, Smart Screen Filter and Automatic Crash Recovery among others.
To learn more about the new features of Internet Explorer 8, you may check the IE homepage here. Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download at the Microsoft’s homepage.
How to convert docx to doc and other files
Some people nowadays are using Microsoft Office 2008 in creating their office applications. The utilization of this new version of office applications poses problems regarding compatibility and portability of office documents. If you have noticed, Office 2008 documents contains and extended character at the end of their file types (docx for doc, xlsx for xls, pptx for ppt). All of these new file extensions are not compatible with the previous versions of the Microsoft Office suite. There was even an instance when I forgot to save my document as an office 2003 compatible document. When I transferred to the workstation which uses an older version of Microsoft Office, I have encountered problems in opening my document.
Last night, I was able to find a way to convert office 2008 files to office 2003 compatible files without the use of any office 2008 applications. These conversion tools are online applications, which makes it more robust in terms of portability.
- Docx2Doc is a web service which offers free conversion of docx documents to doc format. http://www.docx2doc.com/
- Zamzar is another service which offers document conversions. The advantage of Zamzar is its capability to convert not only office documents, but also images, music, archives and videos as well. http://zamzar.com/
- NEW! Thanks to Michael for sharing this resource. TDS Converter offers free conversion of docx to doc. http://converter.tds.lv/
In fact, there are a lot of free online conversion tools available in the net. All you have to do is google your desired keyword for the file you wanted to convert.
