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Microsoft Releases Office 2008 12.2.1, Open XML Converter 1.1.1 Updates

Late Thursday, Microsoft released updates for its Microsoft Office 2008 suite as well as its Open XML Converter applications. The new version of Microsoft Office 2008, a 23.8 megabyte download, corrects a problem that prevented Office 2008 from opening some Open XML documents. Office 2008 would, under certain circumstances, display an error indicating that it […]

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Report Finds Running Windows 7 on MacBook Pro Drains Battery Life Quickly

Users hoping that the arrival of Windows 7 will lessen the power drain on Apple’s MacBook Pro notebook may have some hard news to face up to, as CNET’s Eric Lai discovered for a recent article he wrote. Running Windows 7 in Boot Camp caused one CNET reviewer’s battery life to fall by more than […]

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Microsoft Releases Office 2008 12.2.0, Open XML Converter 1.1 Updates

On Monday, Microsoft released updates for its Microsoft Office 2008 suite as well as its Open XML Converter applications. The Office 2008 update (which functions as a second service pack), is a 297 megabyte download that offers the following fixes and changes with a full description of the changes available here: Stability is improved: This […]

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Rumor: Apple, NVIDIA Could Part Ways After Contract Spat

Despite portraying a friendly image for the past several months, Apple and NVIDIA are now rumored to be involved in a spat that could see some GeForce chipsets excluded from future Mac models. According to semiaccurate.com, a report from this past weekend asserts that negotiations between Apple and NVIDIA are now extremely bitter after the […]

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Woz Cites Jobs as “Healthy”, “Energetic” Prior to Scheduled Return to Apple

Joker/dancer/Apple co-founder apparently had the opportunity to speak with Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently and has reported that Jobs sounded “healthy” and “energetic” with a little over a month prior to his scheduled return to the company. Woz’s comments appeared yesterday at on the Wall Stree Journal’s web site, and though Wozniak admitted to having […]