Microsoft Office 2010 programs available separately

Microsoft has announced estimated retail pricing for Microsoft Office 2010 in the UK, but Cyteck only wants one application…. In response to your story about Microsoft Office 2010 priced from free , will it be possible in future to purchase Office 2010 applications as separate programs? I'm interested in Outlook, and I wonder if Ask Jack might be able to enlighten me on that. Cyteck Microsoft UK has just released estimated retail prices for separate applications, so you can assume that all of these will be available separately. Basically they all cost £119.99 each -- that's Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher and Access -- except for OneNote, which costs £69.99. Microsoft Software Computing Jack Schofield guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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Microsoft is cutting the cost of Office, but will more people buy it?

Office 2010 will be cheaper, which could reflect its reduced value in an era where online apps are free, or Microsoft's attempt to expand its paying customer base, or both of these and more…. Microsoft announced the UK prices for Microsoft Office 2010 this morning and, like the US prices unveiled last month, they're down. (For details, see: Microsoft Office 2010 priced from free .) There are plenty of reasons for this, though it's hard to know which have been most influential. The main ones may be the arrival of online office suites and competition from Open Office, both of which are free. Limited as they are, they must reduce the perceived value of Office, to some extent. But there has also been the huge success of the cheap Home and Student version, which you can install on three PCs. At Christmas, this was one of Amazon.com's top three best-sellers. Indeed, Microsoft says Office has been the top selling PC software product, including games, at US retail for the past seven years. That success has led to the launch of the Office Home and Business version at £239.99, which might have the same effect. That is, it could encourage more Office users to pay a reasonable price for a proper copy, rather than use a pirate version. And, to be frank, if you reckon you can't afford to pay roughly £1 a week (assuming the usual Amazon discount) for five top class programs then you're not being entirely honest with yourself. Another factor is the prospect of a reduction in the cost of packaging and distribution

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Microsoft’s Office 2010 review | Technophile

The latest version of Office has lots of new bells and whistles – none of which will make either Adobe or Google happy I'm writing this using the beta of Microsoft Word 2010, part of the Office 2010 suite due to hit the shelves later this year.

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Council house swap scheme continued for three years despite warnings

Whitehall monitoring unit told ministers twice within a year of its launch that project to help tenants move was unacceptable Whitehall mandarins funded a failing multimillion-pound computer scheme for three years despite official warnings that the scheme was "unacceptable", documents released to the Guardian reveal. The homes and employment mobility service, designed to help thousands of council house tenants swap their homes with other tenants around the country, was backed by John Prescott when he was deputy prime minister. The scheme was to be linked to an internet jobs bank so that the tenants could see what jobs in other areas were available. But officials in a Treasury unit warned soon after it started that it was in danger of failing. The unit, the Office of Government Commerce, is responsible for scrutinising the progress of government computer projects to ensure that they are being run properly. The unit grades projects with a traffic light system, with good projects given green lights, and bad ones red warnings. The new documents reveal that Prescott's department, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, was sent a "double red" warning over the housing scheme in 2003. Projects in acute jeopardy are given two red warnings and told to take immediate action to save the project. Spending watchdogs branded two reds as "unacceptable". Peter Gershon, then chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce, wrote: "I am writing to draw your attention to the homes and employment mobility service which has now had two consecutive red [warnings]." He told Mavis McDonald, then permanent secretary in Prescott's department, that there was "an opportunity to satisfy herself that the project is taking all appropriate actions while there is still time to avoid failure and improve the likelihood of a successful outcome". Three months later, McDonald replied: "I have been fully briefed on the issues around [the project] and like most projects it is not without its risks." It had "problems", she added

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‘Highly critical’ vulnerabilities in VLC media player

A pair of "highly critical" vulnerabilities in the cross-platform VLC Media Player could put millions of users at risk of remote code execution attacks, according to a warning from security researchers. The issues, reported in versions 0.5.0 through 0.9.5, could let hackers take complete control of compromised...

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Bank of Ireland: data breach repeat offender

A Bank of Ireland employee lost an unencrypted USB memory stick containing personal information belonging to 894 customers. Stopping this problem requires more stringent government enforcement. by Michael Krigsman

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Obama community blog redirecting to malware

Hot on the heels of yesterday's Obama-related spam campaign comes the discovery that attackers are redirecting people from an official Barack Obama website to malware when they search for anti-virus to address the threat. During the course of follow-up research on the Obama malware blast, Sascha...

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Adobe updates Flash Player 9 to fix six security holes

Adobe has slapped another band-aid on its ever-present Flash Player to cover at least six documented security vulnerabilities that could expose users to a wide range of hacker attacks. The patch, rated "critical" by Adobe, affects Flash Player 9.0.124.0 on all platforms.  Adobe is recommending that users...

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