February 11, 2007 by
Jason
Microsoft’s recently announced Windows Mobile 6 software for smart phones is a step forward for the company, offering some important improvements over previous versions of the software. But just how good is the new software?
On Thursday, Microsoft offered me the chance to play with Windows Mobile 6 ahead of the 3GSM show in Barcelona, Spain, next week. The short demonstration, which took place at Microsoft’s office in Singapore, was done using a currently available handset: the High Tech Computer (HTC) S620 smart phone
But enough about the handset used for the demonstration. What about the software? Read More»
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February 09, 2007 by
Jason Along with its new interface, Microsoft Excel 2007 offers several subtle improvements to those spreadsheet tools you use every day. Start with the worksheet size, now in excess of 1 million rows by 16,000 columns. Lists are now called Tables. You now have more color selections for formatting, and Excel’s styles and new table formats take advantage of these. Chart types are easier to read; you can select styles to format charts quickly; and objects such as titles and data tables are easier to find and configure in the Chart Tools tab.
After formatting a chart to your liking, you can save it as a template. When you copy and paste a chart into Microsoft Word, the chart is linked by default so that changes to the Excel version of the chart affect the version in Word. Read More»
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