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It seems Microsoft just can’t help taking a crack at Apple recently (you gotta love it!)

Last time it was Windows 7 Vs. Mac OS X.  This time Microsoft are comparing productivity suites Windows Live Essentials & Apple iLife.

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According to several online sources.  Microsoft have officially started to work on Office 15.  They have already hit a preliminary internal assembly (Pre-Alpha); MSO_v15_1 & MSO_v15_2.

The sources indicate that new features and direction of development won’t be clear for another …

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Windows Forums member, Ang087, received a Word document that wouldn’t open in her version of Microsoft Word. To fix the problem, she downloaded the “Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats.”

Learn more about the compatibility pack and download it here.

The latest version of Microsoft Virtual PC lets you run applications installed on your virtual Windows XP Mode in Windows 7 without loading the whole operating system in the background. In this guide you’ll learn:

• How to turn on Auto Publish to view programs on Windows 7′s start menu.
• How to run Windows XP Mode applications in Windows 7.
• How to add XP Mode programs to Windows 7′s start menu.
• How to exclude XP Mode programs from Windows 7′s start menu.

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We have a number of new writers on the team lately and, in this article, I’d like to share a little about each of our writers so you can get to know us all a little better.

Here’s a quick overview of the team:

	Name (Username)	Joined Team	Location	Operating System	Profile
	RSVR85	September 2009			rsvr85
	Mike	November 2009			Mike
	Thomas	January 2010			Thomas
	Harry	February 2010			Harry
	Steven Downer (DarkNovaGamer)	March 2010			DarkNovaGamer
	Angel Luis	April 2010			Angel Luis
	Taylor Ling (ghost 301)	July 2010			ghost301
	Deck Hazen (Deck)	July 2010			Deck
	swooper	July 2010			swooper
	Spazz	August 2010			Spazz
	N J West (Nicholas)	October 2009			Nicholas
	ashmsa (Scragg)	January 2010			Scragg
	sergiogarcia9	May 2010			sergiogarcia9
	Rich Robinson (Rich)	February 2008			Rich

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First of all, it is fair to say, that this article is written by a former Mozilla Firefox user of many years and a current Google Chrome user.

Microsoft is planning to release the beta of Internet Explorer on September 15, 2010. Before the beta arrives, we can see many of the new features in the Internet Explorer Platform Preview.

The most recent Platform 4th was released on august 4.

Since the beginnings of Internet Explorer, it’s had two main problems: support of web standards and poor performance.

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