It is one of these products and service you may not look forward to, but knew it was coming: A subscription model to Microsoft Office. Microsoft envisions that more and more users will not own a copy of Microsoft Office in the future anymore, but rent it and provide the company with recurring revenue stream every year, instead a onetime fee.

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Mr Schofield regrettably separated from his wife because of digg blinds.
“It was coming anyway?, Mr Schofield told us, but my design choice for the blinds was pretty much the nail in the coffin. She doesnt understand the intense geek in me. And anyway, the only one shed even heard of was Youtube?”

So he did. As soon as the email came through, the office (the majority of whom obviously spend far too much time on the internet) erupted in a wave of confused laughter. Why? We’ll let you look at the results below. These are…

The official blog of Dropbox, an online storage solution, updates us with the status of Dropbox. They announce the release of the Linux client to be very soon.

-? We’ve had a bunch of new Dropboxers move into the office (photo tour upcoming), and getting them up to speed with how we roll around here has proven both challenging and entertaining (more the latter thanks to…

The government of California wants more ISPs to follow the lead of Verizon, which, at the behest of the New York Attorney general, blocked the entire usenet alt.* hierarchy in order to reduce propagation of child porn.

AT&T doesn't seem interested in adopting this draconian solution, however, and says that it is already actively blocking child pornography on usenet in conformance with its legal obligations. "AT&T has…

While many people believe that they are locked? into using Microsoft Word for all their document creation needs, it simply isnt true. There are many free alternatives to the costly application from Microsoft. Here's ten alternatives to Microsoft Word that you can quickly and easily start using today.

Over the past few years many alternatives have been emerging to Microsoft Word and Office. A notable freely downloadable option is OpenOffice which has been in development in one form or another for almost twenty years. One of the newer and more…

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Ratings -On a scale of 10- : Gaming : 2/10 You will be able to play a few games with low quality and no AA or AF. You will be able to play on a resolution up to 1280×1024. This system is not designed with gaming in mind, this is…

That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle. Almost 30 years later, a few weeks before Bill Gates's departure from Microsoft, the group (looking better) reconvened.

“The photo really does capture a moment of time and the spirit we had in the office,” says cofounder Paul Allen (bottom right), now a media and sports mogul. Signing up for a little company in the then unknown field of PC…

With rising gas prices and cheap airfare getting more difficult to find, companies and individuals are having to find different methods of holding meetings with business partners in other locations. Although Web meeting software has existed for quite some time, there seems to be more now than ever before.

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The free beta version of Acrobat.com provides a good mix of services to help businesses share and collaborate on documents, with chat and conferencing features as well.

Buzzword shines when you need to share or collaboratively create documents. You can decide whether to share a document with anyone who knows its URL or to restrict access to specific Acrobat.com users. User rights–which the person who…

ROSWELL, Georgia (CNN) — More than a decade after the Internet allowed millions of people to work at home, the next phase of telecommuting involves, well, not working at home.

Back in 2005, Web programmer Javan Makhmali said he was "missing the work atmosphere to get me in the zone — to get work done" at his home office in Portland, Oregon. So he and a few friends created a coworking…

Microsoft today broke from its tradition of primarily endorsing in-house formats by revealing that it will add support to Office for a number of universal standards outside of its own. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support the Open Document Format (ODF) touted by OpenOffice, Sun’s StarOffice, and other third-party tools

Analyst: 1 in 4 postponing iPhone buy for new tech…

For greater energy efficiency, Hong Kongs government administration relies on dynamic power factor correction from EPCOS. The typical electrical loads in office buildings are elevators, electronic office equipment and lighting. Because of the nonlinear character of these loads they create a significant amount of reactive power..

For greater energy efficiency, Hong Kong's government administration relies on dynamic power factor correction (PFC) from EPCOS. The typical electrical loads in office buildings are elevators, electronic office equipment and lighting….

The U.S. House today passed by an overwhelming margin a bill that would allow the government to seize a person's computer if the machine has one illegally downloaded mp3 on it. This was passed under the guise of strengthening intellectual property laws and was lobbied heavily by the RIAA and MPAA.

(ii) Any property constituting or derived from any proceeds obtained directly or indirectly as a result of a violation of subsection (a).