Tag: MICROSOFTWORD

Yes. It's people. We get it. It's also a novel way of addressing complex writing problems. Soylent is an add-in for Microsoft Word that crowdsources tasks, like shortening copy and proofreading text, using Amazon's Mechanical Turk marketplace. You pay a small fee to enlist the hive mind to help you out. You can even assign complex tasks, like changing the tense of an entire paragraph. Video after ...

This week, Microsoft hosted the final rounds of the Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office, during which 50-odd young people gathered in Park City, Utah, and competed to prove which four were the most proficient in Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007, and Microsoft Excel 2003 and 2007, respectively. Those few dozen showed themselves to be the best of the best among a pool of 115,000 entrants. As part ...

Before Microsoft Office 2010 even had a chance to hit shelves Tuesday, online retailers were already slashing prices on the suite. Amazon and Newegg lead the way by cutting the 'Home and Student' edition, which retails for $149.99, to $129.99. Amazon, in turn, marked down the 'Home and Business' and the 'Professional' versions by $40, offering them for $239.99 and $459.99, respectively. ...

Share At a live event in New York City yesterday, Microsoft launched its Office 2010 software package. The ubiquitous productivity suite, available now for volume license holders, can be downloaded starting May 11th, and will hit store shelves in June. The updated package focuses on making Office more mobile and Web-friendly, which is likely Microsoft's response to the growing popularity of ...

Prepare to keep your lays from your lies and make sure everything is well (and not "good"), because today is National Grammar Day. Yes, that is a real thing, and since we don't get a vacation day to celebrate the proper use of semicolons, it's only appropriate to prepare a special feature for the occasion. We know that at least some of you rely entirely on Word's ability to catch your ...

Last summer, when U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis ordered Microsoft to permanently shelve Word (and pay a whopping $290 million in damages), some analysts dismissed the ruling as a publicity stunt. Microsoft just received a swift and powerful kick to the groin, though, as the decision has reportedly been upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals. According to Engadget, Microsoft only has until ...

Leonard Davis, U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, is putting himself in the headlines by issuing a permanent injunction against Microsoft, prohibiting the company from selling "Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files." That, as all geeks know, includes both Office 2007 and the upcoming Office 2010. The ruling is in reaction to a ...