Microsoft Office 365 Beta Review

office365-logoMicrosoft Office and Exchange has always been the backbone for many corporate and business enterprises. With the launch of Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft is bringing their desktop/server based system to the cloud, enabling professionals to access their emails, important documents, contacts, and calendar from almost anywhere and any device.
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Oomfo: Create Stunning Charts for PowerPoint Presentations

oomfoThe PowerPoint today is more than just a simple slideshow. A great presentation involves more than just presenting facts and figures, but also to impress your audience with fanciful animations and effects. Although PowerPoint offers an impressive array of chart types and options, almost all of them have been used exhaustively in presentations. Therefore when people view a PowerPoint chart, they do not feel that anything new or unique has been added to the presentation.

Offering a solution to this is “Oomfo” – an application that adds Flash-based charts to your PowerPoint presentations.
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LibreOffice – The Likely Future of OpenOffice

libreoffice-logoFor those of you who don’t follow tech news, here’s a brief summary: OpenOffice, supported by Sun, has long been known as a excellent free alternative to MS Office. When Oracle bought Sun, many feared that Oracle’s control might not necessarily be a good thing for the project. Some members of the OpenOffice team decided to create The Document Foundation as a central place for the work to continue in an open community fashion, and even invited Oracle along in the hopes that “we can all just get along”. Well Oracle declined, and the result is that The Document Foundation will soon release LibreOffice, a community-based fork of OpenOffice which has already received backing from the likes of Canonical, Red Hat, and Google. While the final release is not yet available, we can get our hands on the release candidate which should tell us what kind of changes we’re in for.
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How to Open .docx File Without Microsoft Office

office-docx-logoThe previously used .doc format is no longer available in Microsoft Office 2007. Though there is an option in Office 2007 to save a document in the older .doc format, you can not read a .docx file without installing the newer version of Office. While the old format runs fine in the new version, the reverse is not true. This means you can not run the .docx files in Office 2003 or earlier. If you are not looking to upgrade to the new Microsoft Office suite, here are some ways that you can use to open the .docx files without installing the newer Office in your computer.
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