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Microsoft Outlook 2007 ‘non-commercial use’ software

After installing a copy of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 on their machine, a customer found that their version turned out to be something different.

It seems that the machine was originally bought as an Office Ready PC (you can read about the programme here.) had been installed with a FPP (Fully Packaged Product) of Office rather than […]

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Microsoft Office Outlook

I presented yesterday at my penultimate presentation in Farnham which was a lot of fun. Lots of questions were asked, so here’s some answers to some of those asked.
Not sure what version of Microsoft Office you have?
Open up any of your Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc…), click on ‘help’ in the toolbar and […]

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What’s Stopping You? Event | Southampton

A few things came up today which I wanted to post as reference:
Microsoft Office Accounting
I caught up with the product manager Gareth Arnold to find out what’s going on with regards to launching the product through the channel. It looks like boxed copies will be made available at late March/early April. I would expect Action […]

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What’s Stopping You? Event | Business Link Women’s Conference (Part #2)

The spring 2008 sessions of the ‘What’s stopping you?’ event has kicked off again starting in Crawley last week. Again, another great audience who were keen and kept the presentation interactive (yesss!).
Already, I have met plenty of businesses who need help from local Small Business Specialists and so it’s been great to have the chance […]

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Microsoft Office Running Start Tool

Microsoft Office Running Start Tool has been released to serve as a handy shortcut to vital questions and resources so you and your colleagues can get information regarding Office 2007 to help themselves. The tool is available to anyone who is using the Microsoft 2007 Office System.
The downloadable SharePoint and HTML files can be placed […]

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Irish Events: Deploying Vista and Office 2007

“For organisations considering the deployment of either Windows Vista or the 2007 Office system - or both, this interactive training session has been specially designed for Technical decision makers, IT implementers and Infrastructure architects, to show how straight-forward  deploying these technologies can be.
The session will update participants on the proven business, management and technical benefits […]

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How many blog posts does it take to announce the release of Office 2007 SP1?

Lots if you’ve subscribed to a fair number of Microsoft blogs! Well here’s one more.
The Service Pack (SP) will now form part of your automatic updates, but for those who have disabled this and want your own copy to do with what you will, here’s the direct download link. Don’t forget that you’ll need to […]

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Update on Microsoft Office Accounting

Here is the situation regarding Microsoft Office Accounting so far in the UK…

Currently the product is only available from Microsoft as a download in three different versions  (www.msofficeaccounting.co.uk):
Express -which is a free version available to anyone to download for free
Professional - 60-day free trial or £149.99 (exc. VAT) for a full copy (3-user license is […]

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Microsoft Business Contact Manager

I was writing another post when I realised that I was going on a lot about Business Contact Manager. I’ve spoken to a few hundred people in the last few weeks and the pens get scribbling away when I tell them all about something that they didn’t know they had. In particular, Business Contact Manager […]

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Mr. Busy Campaign paves the way for future marketing campaigns aimed at small businesses

The Mr. Busy Campaign will be bidding SBSCers in UK and Ireland a hurried goodbye as he gets replaced by three new campaigns.
Here’s what the Mr. Busy campaign achieved:

101 Partners took part in the campaign within five weeks
24,000 end users were reached
98% of Partners told Microsoft that they would like to see more of these […]

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