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A random collection of news and links about Microsoft Ireland by Tom Murphy

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Microsoft Ireland Wins Repak Recycling Award
At the 7th Repak Recycling Awards last week, Microsoft Ireland won the Best Prevention Initiative Award for the re-design of the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac packaging. The Awards serve to recognise and commend both businesses and schools that are exemplars Read More...
Meteor deploys Microsoft Office 2007 to over 800 users
Ireland’s third largest mobile communications provider, Meteor Mobile Communications has deployed Microsoft Office 2007 to over 800 people across the entire company. Meteor has standardised on the Microsoft Office 2007 system to optimise productivity Read More...
OneNote: The best kept secret for organising your life...
Microsoft OneNote is possibly the most under-rated component of the 2007 Office Suite.  I was reading a post on the LifeHacker blog yesterday that explained the capabilities of OneNote and there are hundreds of comments on the post with the most Read More...
Office Labs introduces a new way to think about presentations
Microsoft Office Labs has released a prototype plug-in for PowerPoint 2007 that provides a new way to think about structuring and delivering your presentations. Rather than the standard linear presentation, pptPlex enables you to create a "Canvas" Read More...
New Microsoft web site and pricing aims to ease the back to school burden...
Microsoft Ireland is today announcing two initiative in the run up to the return to school: The price for Microsoft Office Home and Students 2007 has been reduced from €119.99 to €79.99 A new back to school web site with tips and resources Read More...
Microsoft Releases Podcasting Kit for Sharepoint
The Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS), an open source initiative that helps companies develop and deploy podcasting solutions on Microsoft Sharepoint was announced today at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. According to an April 2008 Forrester Research Read More...
Extended document format support in Microsoft Office announced
The next release of Office 2007 - Service Pack 2 - which will ship in the first half of 2009 - will include expanded support for document formats including XML Paper Specification (XPS), Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.5, PDF/A and Open Document Format Read More...
New Microsoft Ireland Podcasts on Live Mesh and Sharepoint
Martha has published two new podcasts from Microsoft Ireland: Podcast 3 : Discussion on Sharepoint Server with Tom Nugent from Microsoft Ireland Podcast 4 : More information on the just announced Live Mesh Read More...
Microsoft releases DAISY plug-in for visual impaired computer users
Microsoft and the DAISY Consortium have announced the availability of a new “Save as DAISY XML” add-in for Microsoft Office Word which enables anyone to create content and documents for blind individuals. The “Save as DAISY XML” Read More...
Irish Knights Get a New Roundtable
Last week we announced that Irish customers can now purchase Microsoft RoundTable.  It's an all-in-one videoconferencing device that broadcasts synchronised audio and video over a standard Windows-based PC. RoundTable is a tabletop device, not much Read More...
Service Pack 1 for 2007 Office Released
Service Pack 1 for 2007 Microsoft Office system, which delivers a range of stability, performance and security enhancements has been released today, you can download it  here . Other Resources: • Q&A: Microsoft Office Product Manager Reed Read More...
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