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Microsoft Wants You to Pay Monthly Subscription for Office and Services You Won't Use

Microsoft is testing a new bundle of fun codenamed "Albany" which rolls Office Home and Student, Windows Live OneCare, Office Live Workspace and some other Live services into a package that you'll pay a monthly fee for. It's this kind of thing, turning software into service you have to keep paying for and never actually own, that makes reports of Windows 7's modularity kinda scary. Here's what "Albany" will ask you to pony up for every month in real-world terms. More »

3:50 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By matt buchanan
12,750 views, 73 comments

Latest by uberfu: Microsoft Wants You to Pay Monthly Subscription for Office and Services You Won't Use This is nothing new_ I have more »

software

Office 2007 SP1 Available For Download

It's no Vista Service Pack 1, but Microsoft's got some bug fixes, improvements, and a new feature that automatically scans Wikipedia and plagiarizes pastes in relevant info for your midterm paper. Get yours now wherever internetterwebs are sold. [Microsoft]

2:49 AM on Wed Dec 12 2007
By Jason Chen
4,817 views, 11 comments

announcements

Coolness Roundup on Sirius: Listener Mailbag

coolness_sirius.jpgTonight's Coolness Roundup on Sirius Stars 102 features Gizmodo's Charlie White along with Stephen Schleicher of Sci Fi Tech answering listener email with questions about everything from Adobe limited-edition messenger bags for your laptop to using Office 2007, and even how to integrate a Windows Vista PC into your home theater. More »

10:10 PM on Thu Mar 15 2007
By Charlie White
786 views, 1 comment

Latest by m3talsyr3n: *yawn* more »

software

Clippy R.I.P. - The World Wasn't Ready For You?

With recent tragedies surrounding our space an pornography programs, one major death has been passed over by the media. We are speaking of the late, not-necessarily-beloved Clippy who was brutally murdered out of Office 2007. Here is what Jensen Harris, Office Group Program Manager, had to say about the recent death.
One of the tenets that we had about the new UI in 2007 was that we only wanted to create one way to get to all features. We didn't want to have menus and toolbars and Clippy as parallel, slightly different ways of getting to the features, so Clippy as a way of helping you decode cryptic menus and toolbars didn't make sense, because we didn't have those cryptic menus and toolbars anymore...Although I think that social user interface wasn't ready for the mainstream yet
At the age of 10, Clippy was just a child at (his?) death. In private, Clippy often spoke of leaving the office behind for a simpler life. We hope that he found it...wherever he may be. More »

12:48 PM on Sat Feb 10 2007
By Mark Wilson
1,339 views, 34 comments

Latest by byronsnake: Good riddance. Have they killed that stupid search dog, too? more »

pcs

Vista Launch Parties Kickin' off Tonight

Yo party animals geeks, it's time to get that freshly dry-cleaned Zelda t-shirt on and head out for a night of Vista release partying. A bunch of retailers are hosting kickoff events all night with sports stars, local radio stations, free prizes, and fresh copies of Vista and Office 2007. Yea, we wouldn't tell our friends we were going out to wait in line for a new OS either, so tell them you're stepping out for um booze.. or something else not so nerdy. Vista is also available for download starting at midnight from the Windows Marketplace. Here's what's in store: More »

10:08 PM on Mon Jan 29 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
311 views, 4 comments

Latest by Vexorg: Shaun Alexander is supposed to be at the Bellevue WA Best Buy, from what I heard... more »

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Microsoft Packaging for Vista and Office 2007 Revealed

Microsoft, planning to lure you into using Windows Vista and Office 2007 for the rest of your life, today reveals the packaging for the upcoming products, going with a rounded design reminiscent of a 1950s toaster. Let's let the Microsoftians damn us with their faint prose:
Designed to be user-friendly, the new packaging is a small, hard, plastic container that's designed to protect the software inside for life-long use. It provides a convenient and attractive place for you to permanently store both discs and documentation. The new design will provide the strength, dimensional stability and impact resistance required when packaging software today. Our plan is to extend this packaging style to other Microsoft products after the launch of Windows Vista and 2007 Office system.
Take a look at close-ups of a couple of the new boxes, after the jump. – Charlie White More »

7:54 AM on Tue Oct 31 2006
By Charlie White
3,912 views, 48 comments

Latest by Bostbrother: Now if I could only figure out how to open the &$#^(#@)* thing . . . .excuse me while I more »

software

Office 2007 Online Preview

Microsoft has put up an online "Beta 2 Test Drive" for people who are on the fence about upgrading. In case you don't want to install the actual Beta for fears that it'll interfere with your older version of office, this preview lets you check out what's new—and what's not. All you need is IE 5.5 or later and the Citrix Browser Plugin. More »

5:10 PM on Tue Jun 27 2006
By Jason Chen
219 views, 9 comments

Latest by agrajag42: We had an onsite demo of it and it was quite cool, however when they mentioned that there will be more »

cellphones

Windows Mobile 5 Successor Will Have Built-In IM, Office 2007 Links

Microsoft is still busy working on push-email for Windows Mobile 5, but they've found the time (and engineers) to develop its successor, code-named "Crossbow". In order to catch up feature-wise to the Blackberry, the new version is going to include built-in IM and Office 2007 compatibility. More »

10:56 PM on Mon Apr 24 2006
By Jason Chen
1,957 views, 8 comments

Latest by Wobbly: I think what (IM client, if any) gets installed by RIM (Blackberry) depends on which operator you're getting the device more »