Microsoft said on Friday that it plans to finalize the code for Office 2010 next month and, as expected, it kicked off a program enabling those who buy Office 2007 in the coming months to get a free upgrade to the new version.
Microsoft Office Word is a word processing software licensed by Microsoft and is usually included in the Microsoft Office suites with other desktop applications like Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. It is somehow also available in a standalone version that’s costs around $200. Since its release in 1983, Microsoft has launched versions of the program that were compatible with DOS, Windows and Mac operating systems.
The Microsoft Office suite must be purchased either from the installation CD licensed by Microsoft or downloaded from the official website.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/default.aspx
So far, there are no free versions of Word available for download online. However, you can choose to download the free trial version of Microsoft Office suite 2007 on Microsoft’s website. However, this free trial version is only available for US residents.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101741481033.aspx
Note: To be able to download free trials of Microsoft Office, the users should also have a registered and activated Windows Live account.
The following is a list of about 100 of the best OpenSource Applications, that actually help make Linux more usable for people. It is my hope that this list shows potential Linux users that there really is a large, effective, productive and usable range of free,
OpenSource applications. For existing Linux users (like myself), I think this will provide a great resource in finding applications that may better suit your needs, or just for fun! Needless to say, this is just some of the thousands of applications available! I develop web sites, so this list tends to focus on applications which support that type of work.
The majority of these applications can be installed by either apt-get or synaptic, however I’ve included the web site addresses of these applications so that you can obtain more information. I’ve tried many of these applications myself – and they are pretty good!
This list took a long time to put together and I tried to keep it in alphabetical order for you. – You might want to bookmark this and come back later. 
Enjoy!
AVG Free provides the bare necessities when it comes to security, but that should be enough for savvy Windows users. You’ll get a combined antivirus and antimalware engine, LinkScanner, and e-mail scanning. AVG Free 9 introduces a few new features, with improvements focused on performance, including claims of faster scan and boot times. One new feature is the Identity Theft Recovery Unit. Only for users in the United States, ITRU is a business partnership with Identity Guard which provides “consumer identity theft solutions,” accessible only from the AVG toolbar in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Some Windows users reported on Thursday that they were getting the “blue screen of death” on their computers when they installed Microsoft’s latest security updates released two days earlier.
Most of the people complaining on a Windows forum said they had the problem on Windows XP, but one person also reported problems on Windows 7. Users posted a fix on the site that they said seemed to work, but that didn’t necessarily quell the anger.
Although some users have been grumbling about a variety of battery issues related to Windows 7, Microsoft says that its testing shows that nothing is amiss.
The software maker initially thought that there might be a problem with the firmware in some PC models causing an error message to appear where one was not warranted. However, Microsoft now says that it believes that the operating system is behaving properly.
In a blog posting on Monday, Windows division President Steven Sinofsky said that the company’s follow-up research shows that those seeing a notification that their batteries need replacing are getting the message because, in fact, the batteries are not performing up to a certain threshold.
Microsoft plans to begin phasing out Unix and Linux platform support for its FAST enterprise search products, as of its next release.
According to a Thursday blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Bjørn Olstad, the team will be “investing in interoperability between Windows and other operating systems, reaffirming our commitment to 10 years of support for our non-Windows products, and taking concrete steps to help customers plan for the future.”
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it is investigating another flaw in Internet Explorer, this time a vulnerability that could result in an unauthorized disclosure of information for users running its browser on older operating systems.
The software maker said in a security advisory that, although it knows of no attacks based on the flaw, the vulnerability could lead to a Web-based attack from either a Web site designed to take advantage of the flaw or from a site that becomes compromised via user-generated text or a malicious ad. Either way, a user would have to actively go to the compromised Web site.
Microsoft patched a critical hole in Windows 2000 on Tuesday that could allow an attacker to take control of a computer if a user viewed a maliciously crafted Embedded OpenType font in Internet Explorer, Office PowerPoint, or Word. Read more…
