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Along with Office 2003 SP2, Microsoft also released Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) SP2 yesterday. Technical information can be found in Microsoft knowledge base article 887624.

Yesterday, Microsoft released Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
SP2 is basically a rollup of fixes for Office (full technical details can be found in Microsoft knowledge base article 887616) but it also includes enhancements to Outlook 2003’s Junk E-mail Filter to provide protection against phishing attacks, automatically evaluating any incoming message to see if it [...]

I just stumbled across a comment in one of Paul Thurrott’s Windows IT Pro magazine network WinInfo Daily Updates from a few weeks back that the next version of Microsoft Office (Office 12) might be called “Microsoft Office Vista”. If that does happen, I think it would be a really bad idea…
To put it simply, [...]

Last week I needed to view a colleague’s project plan (in Microsoft Project) to make sure I hadn’t been stitched up ensure that all the activities had been captured in the correct sequence and within a realistic time frame. Because I didn’t have Microsoft Project installed on my PC, I had to go through the [...]

Yesterday, I was at a very interesting presentation from Fujitsu-Siemens Computers. It doesn’t really matter who the OEM was – it was the concept that grabbed me, and I’m sure IBM and HP will also be looking at this and that Dell will jump on board once it hits the mass market. That concept was [...]

Having just said that Microsoft needs to be better at innovating if it is to survive another 30 years in business, it seems that the next version of Microsoft Office has surprised everyone with a new, simplified user interface that removes much of the toolbar clutter. The press release includes screenshots for Office 12 core [...]

Microsoft turns 30 today. We tend to associate Information Technology (IT) with a rapidly expanding market of young start-up companies but whilst it is nothing compared to the global giants IBM, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Fujitsu, 30 years is significant.
Microsoft has become ubiquitous – largely through its Windows operating system and Office productivity suite, but [...]

Readers of this blog will be aware that I am a great fan of my iPod Mini (even if I do think Apple is a touch monopolistic in the digital media market). I also like Volkswagen cars. Last year my wife and I bought a Polo; I’ve had a few Golfs (one Mk II and [...]

I often link to Wikipedia as I think it’s one of the best “for further reading” information sources on the Internet; however today I stumbled across Wiktionary – a sister project which provides a online dictionary and thesaurus (although I must confess that at the time of writing the thesaurus category is currently slightly limited [...]

I few minutes back I published some rules for blogging and one of the guidance notes was to post regularly. That particular guidance could be interpreted a number of ways (once a week; daily; fast and frequent; or just whenever there is time) and this blog tends to fall into the latter category but [...]