Microsoft started to publicise details of Microsoft Office 2010, aka Office 14*, at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans today. The main news is that Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 “have reached the technical preview engineering milestone”. These are pre-beta versions, not suitable for production use. There should be a public beta later this year, with the final release “in the first half of 2010″. For the first [...]

Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to try to appease European Commission (EC) regulators who are mulling possible remedies in the ongoing Opera-Microsoft browser-bundling case in the European Union. According to News.com, Microsoft’s newest proposal is to offer a version of Windows 7 which strips out Internet Explorer (IE) 8. Not hides it — like is currently possible via a “remove features” capability. The Softies are proposing to sell a separate version, designated Windows 7 [...]