Creative Commons comes to Microsoft Office

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that has written licenses that allow content creators to share information while retaining some rights.

Currently, some Web-based tools let people associate a Creative Commons license with information. But Microsoft is the first vendor to embed a license-selection option inside its applications, said Lawrence Lessig, the founder of the Creative Commons and a Stanford Law School professor.

"This is important to us because a huge amount of creative work is created inside the Office platform. Having a simple way to add Creative Commons licenses obviously helps us spread those licenses much more broadly," Lessig said.

Once installed, the license-selection software will appear as a menu option in the Microsoft office 2007 application.

It will generate a Creative Commons logo, a short summary of the license chosen, and a hyperlink to the Creative Commons Web site. People can download the software from the Creative Commons Web site or from Microsoft Office Online.

Microsoft and Creative Commons have collaborated on other projects, but the Office tool is the most significant effort to date, said Tom Rubin, associate general counsel at Microsoft.

"We very much share a common belief that creators of works should be able to express their intentions with regard to subsequent use, and Creative Commons has created exciting ways to have works shared freely or have works reused by others," Rubin said.

He said there are 400 million users of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 applications. Microsoft contracted with 3Sharp, a Redmond, Wash.-based consultant to build and test the copyright licensing tool.

The first document to be created with the Office plug-in tool will be a speech about globalism by Gilberto Gil, the Brazilian musician who is now the minister of culture in Brazil.

Lessig said that Creative Commons continues to explore ways to attach licenses to other types of content such as video and audio files.
However, Microsoft has not yet decided to make a license-selection tool for its Windows Media creation software, Rubin said.

Changes to upgrade to the old Microsoft Office suite

Microsoft office 2007 is available today for business licenses, with the public release coming in June, but we've had a chance to put the review copy through its paces. According to Microsoft, the focus of this major overhaul was on three things: to make work flow more efficient; to effectively use Web applications to make your work available anywhere; and to make collaboration with others much easier.

In our review of  Microsoft office 2007  , we look at the notable feature changes across many of the applications. Microsoft says Office 2010 will let you use your PC, smartphone, and the Web to make your projects come together more efficiently.

From what we've seen, the company might be right, but it will need to work out some of the bugs before the launch in June.

Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007   won't be available to the public until sometime in June, but we've put the upgrade to Microsoft's venerable Office suite through its paces to bring you our review. Read more about expanded use of the Ribbon, changes across all the apps, and much more.

One of the biggest issues with cloud computing is companies' concern about where their data will be hosted.

Microsoft office 2007 doesn't have a datacentre in Australia, which means that any data on Azure has to be hosted overseas. The Redmond giant realises that some companies may feel squeamish about where their data is located.

"The environment that you would have on-premises at a customer site is very similar to the environment that is offered on SQL Azure, which means that you can move applications from the cloud to on-premises or from on-premises to the cloud with very little, if any, changes, because underlying technology is the same. It's .NET, it's Windows Server, it's built using Visual Studio in both cases," Carraro says. "It's really a matter of building the app you need and then deciding if [it should] run on cloud or on-premises.

"This is very compelling for software vendors because some of their customers prefer an on-premises version of their application for various reasons and some customers prefer to have it in the cloud."

Despite this, preference for locally-hosted data leaves the door open for other providers that offer a cloud service hosted in datacentres around Australia. Lacking in scale that Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 mate or Amazon offer, on-premise prices often run at a premium, but customers may be prepared to front extra for the feeling of security.

It isn't just non-critical systems that companies are considering moving. "We're seeing a lot of interest around not just development and testing environments but also around production IT moving into cloud."

McNaught says that when comparing unit prices, a local-based cloud will go for a light premium, but if bandwidth costs are taken into account along with other costs of having an offshore cloud, he thinks it will be on par.

Office 15 has been closed beta 16 Microsoft preparations for the Office

As we all know, Microsoft office 2007 is developing next-generation Office business componentsOffice 15. A vice president of Microsoft's end of last year, has revealed that test Office15 internal beta has been released.

The latest news that Microsoft has already begun to recruit the Office 16 developer.

A Microsoft official mentioned in his blog on January 4, Office 16, and called ondevelopers to participate in March 2011 at the Office 15 Developer Kitchen, Summit.Allegedly, Microsoft plans to use the summit to show Access and Office 15 "advanced technology preview to developers, developers can communicate face to face with theOffice product development teams to help Microsoft" problem "before the release of, and joined the Office 15 and the Office 16 development team.

Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 blog said that the Office exchange summit will be free to the public, butparticipants need to pay the cost to Redmond (Microsoft HQ).

It is reported that Office 15 is scheduled in 2013. Estimated according to the currentspeed of development of Microsoft Office 16 is likely to be released in 2016.


Prior to leak news that the Office 15 user interface will be further improved, and add some new features. Office development team will be based on a new framework ofJupiter developing Office 15, to provide a common application store platform.Therefore, the Office development team will be the new way of sales and services ofOffice 15.

Office2000 deployment management and maintenance

The Office2000 through to facilitate the custom settings and preferences so that the Office tasks easier to adapt to the specific environment. MicrosoftOfficeProfileWizard is an independent tool that can capture all the Office 2007 applications, preferences and settings. Those settings can be the backup to restore in the new user's machine, or spreading throughout the content. MicrosoftCustomInstallationWizard alternative Office97 and 95NetworkInstallationWizard, the custom installation allows administrators to create a personal, departmental or company level. IT administrators can custom installation - Install Now to install on first use, run from the server and does not install, and customize other standard installation of Office on the basis of the functional level.

Office2000 new Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 technology to track the status of those installed, and, and as key components of the program scheduler. When end users on their machines set Office2000, they will benefit from the program's "smart install", it can be based on the existing Office to set up and machine resources available to determine the best installation. The Office2000 show improvement in the migration preference settings from a previous version to completely remove the file. When unlikely events, such as the end user must give up the installation did not complete the installation, the Office2000 "auto recovery" feature will be completely "undo" the installation, restore your system to the pre-installation state. The Office2000 support to browse user profiles and to take special measures to adapt to the Windows Terminal Server.


Office2000 file format compatible with Office97, and exchanged between users running different versions of binary Office documents very easy. Office97 does not require conversion to be able to open any Office2000 files. Specific formatting options available in the Office2000 impassable because Office97 does not recognize these features. The only exception is Access as a result of new support Unicode (the previous version of Access does not support this file format). The Access2000 down stored Access97.

Microsoft's research shows that, especially the huge potential of small businesses

Representing 58% Microsoft office 2007  survey company expects competitiveness and cloud. The key factors are: 71% claimed that the available mobile access them from any method of devices and access points. In particular, two to 10 employees the company was founded, according to research results, they have three years, as a possible use in the cloud: cloud computing, as it is today three times.

SME managers, only 20% of people believe that Office 2010 Professional said that their data will be canceled in the cloud than in the ground. 70% want to know what their data is geographic. 30% claimed that their data do not leave their own country. In addition, because the rule of law or of his own worth, research is inconclusive. 65 percent, is expected to use the latest three years, the cloud e-mail. 56% want to get their IT set up by a single company.

Cloud for small businesses to provide an opportunity for you to become more competitive in a rapidly changing business environment, because less time and money in the IT and concerns of their primary task, rather than - to promote their business, vice president of channel operators in a Microsoft press release the findings.

Microsoft slashes product key allowances for TechNet subscribers

For the second time in two years, Microsoft office 2007 has significantly cut the benefits it offers to TechNet subscribers. Will the newly reduced allotments of Windows and Office product keys really reduce piracy or just annoy Microsoft’s customers?

Microsoft’s TechNet program is one of the best bargains in personal computing. For an annual subscription price of $349, TechNet Professional subscribers get access to nearly every release of every operating system (desktop and server) and Office suite.

The licenses are valid for evaluation purposes only, but the downloadable products and product keys are typically Retail products, indistinguishable from shrink-wrapped products.

Two years ago, a TechNet Professional subscription entitled you to 10 product keys for every version of Windows and every version of Office. In September 2010, citing concerns over piracy, Microsoft cut those allotments to five keys.

Now, according to an announcement at the TechNet Subscriptions home page (link available only to signed-in TechNet subscribers), the number of product keys has just been slashed again:

Beginning in mid-March 2012, subscribers to TechNet Subscriptions (excluding TechNet Standard which are entitled to 2 keys per product) may access a maximum allocation of three (3) product keys for Microsoft Office 2010 Professional  and Windows Client products in connection with their subscription. The allotted keys may only be used for software evaluation purposes. Once the maximum keys have been activated, no more keys will be made available. Additional product keys may be acquired through the purchase of an additional subscription.

In addition to that restriction, Microsoft has also imposed restrictions on the number of keys that can be claimed on any given day. As another support page notes, a TechNet Professional (Retail) subscriber can claim 44 keys in a 24-hour period.