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     Q&A: Microsoft Announces Availability of XML Schema for Microsoft Office Visio 2003 (Apr 15) Microsoft today announced the addition of the Microsoft Office Visio 2003 XML Reference Schema to its open and royalty-free documentation and license program that was initially unveiled in November 2003. Microsoft Office Visio 2003 is the diagramming and data visualization […]

     Office2PDF Launches Revolutionary New PDF Tools for Microsoft Office. (Apr 1) Office2PDF tools provide PDF functionality and feature control from within Office. Used in conjunction with Adobe Acrobat, Office2PDF tools provide PDF feature management at the source. The initial release brings three key products: DocInfo Pro, DocSlides and Destinations. DocInfo Pro allows the author […]

     Exchange SDK Documentation and Samples March 2004 (Mar 28) The documentation and samples assist developers in building applications for Exchange 2000 Server. Download: Exchange SDK 2000 Documentation and Samples March 2004 Download: Exchange SDK 2003 Documentation and Samples March 2004      Microsoft Office Solution Accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley (Mar 28) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 […]

     Firms urged to rethink spam strategy (Mar 23) IT managers should rethink their spam filter strategy as the market is expected to experience dramatic vendor consolidation this year, Gartner has warned. According to the analyst group, fewer than 10 of the 40 vendors in the market will still be in business by 2005. And […]

     Word 2003 Sample: Creating a Custom Spell Checker with Word 2003 and Visual Basic .NET (Mar 16) This sample file accompanies the MSDN article “Creating a Custom Spell-Checker with Word 2003 and Visual Basic .NET” which demonstrates using the Word object model in conjunction with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET to create a simple spell-checker […]

     Hosted Solution Facilitates Team Collaboration (Mar 12) Overview of how the Global Identity Management Team (GIdMT) leveraged Microsoft IT’s centrally-hosted Windows SharePoint Services collaboration environment to quickly and easily build a team site. By providing the SharePoint collaboration environment to teams across the corporation, Microsoft IT benefits from associated economies of scale and lowered […]

     Do We Get Enough In Innovation for What We Give to Microsoft? (Mar 9) It’s 2004; do you know where your computer dollars are going? One can learn a lot about the computer industry by looking at the breakdown of manufacturing costs in an average desktop PC, as compiled by iSuppli Corp., a market-research […]

     Virus Alert! (Mar 2) Due to an increased rate of submissions, Symantec Security Response has upgraded W32.Netsky.D@mm from a Category 3 to a Category 4 as of March 1, 2004. W32.Netsky.D@mm is a mass-mailing worm that is a variant of W32.Netsky.C@mm. The worm scans drives C through Z for email addresses and sends itself […]

     Latest Mydoom variant deletes files (Feb 25) The latest variant of the Mydoom virus, discovered Friday, is still spreading and actively deleting files from victims’ computers, security researchers warned Wednesday. The variant, dubbed Mydoom.F, not only tries to perform a distributed denial-of-service attack on the Web sites of Microsoft Corp. and the Recording Industry […]

     Question & Answer Session: Microsoft Office 2003 System Team (Feb 20) ActiveWin.com: What was the development time of Microsoft Office 2003? Office 2003 Team: While we don’t have specific dates around when development first started, what we can outline for you is the major milestones leading to launch of Microsoft Office 2003 Editions: Microsoft […]