Word documents use a proprietary format. That means that without your spending an extensive amount of time to reverse engineer their file format, any edits that you do have at least the potential to corrupt the document.
Enter the proprietary format that Microsoft based on HTML which they designed for transferring files between their programs. This [...]

Microsoft have finally release the first beta version of Internet Explorer 8.
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It looks like Microsoft did not proceed with the planned forced upgrade to IE 7 on 12th February as they had previously indicated was scheduled. As yet I have found no explanation for why this didn’t happen. Given that IE 7 is actually a major security patch to IE 6 is ought to have been [...]

One advantage that modern wordprocessing software has over anything that preceded it is that it can make some corrections for you automatically as you type. The autocorrect option in Microsoft Word allows you to choose which corrections that you want the program to make for you. Some corrections that you can have fixed for you [...]

After mentioning yesterday about people buying computers with Vista and then reformatting to install XP, the relative difficulty of installing operating systems was the next thing that occurred to me.
The main reason why people run Windows rather than other operating systems is because Windows comes pre-installed on their new computer and so they do not [...]

IBM 1981-1995 - 15 years
Microsoft 1995-2009 - 15 years
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To me it seems like Microsoft is currently in approximately the same position that IBM was in 1994. Back then IBM was top dog on the PC and had been since releasing their micro-computer which they called the PC in 1981. We still refer to PCs [...]

Use of that major security hole of the internet more commonly known as Internet Explorer 6 has fallen since IE7 was released until now where the number of people using it is just below that of IE7 users (at least on my site where Firefox users make up about 35% with IE6 and 7 making [...]

Unlike Microsoft Word, WordPerfect can convert documents into HTML that is almost good enough to use on the web. This article was written several years ago now so the versions of the software and HTML that it refers to are fairly dated but the same situation probably still applies today with the latest versions of [...]