Configure Outlook 2003 With Yahoo
A common question: How do you set up Yahoo mail with Microsoft Outlook 2003?
Many people use Outlook for email at the office also maintain an outside email account and would like to add their Yahoo Mail account to their Outlook Client on their Laptop or PC.
Others have Installed the Microsoft Office Suite and want to configure it for use with their Yahoo or personal email account.
Unfortunately, you can only set up a Yahoo Mail Plus account for use with Outlook. There is a fee associated with the Yahoo Mail Plus service. The free yahoo account will not work. If you want to set up a free email account with Outlook I recommend that you use Google’s gmail instead.
You will need these settings to configure Outlook with your Yahoo Plus email account. Yahoo Mail Plus Settings
Microsoft Word Banned
As of January 11, 2010 Microsoft will no longer be allowed to sell Microsoft Word.
Last August a federal court ruled that a Canadian company i4i holds the patent rights to how XML code is to be used.
A federal court has upheld the ruling and the software giant must stop all violations of i4i’s patent.
Not only must they stop selling Word in its current form, Microsoft has to pay a $290 Million judgment.
The January deadline is fast approaching for Microsoft to roll out a fix for its Word product which is sold in shrink wrap boxes, downloaded or bundled with other Microsoft products in various versions of the Microsoft Office Suite.
Does this ruling mean that you will no longer be able to use the most popular word process on the market today?
No.
If you have Microsoft word you will still be able to use it as you always have, but Microsoft is definitely under the gun to roll out a work around until they can tweak the word processing software to be in compliance.
You can continue to purchase the software for use up to the deadline, but there will be no more updates with the violating code available for the product after January 11th.
This ruling has serious implications for users and for retailers.
Retailers who have purchased the product will have an unsellable product and manufactures who sell PCs and laptops will have to remove versions of Word that do not comply which will not be simple as most manufactures thought that Microsoft would find a way around this ruling.
There are alternatives for users of Microsoft Word such as the Open Office which is an open source code product that works with Word documents.
If you choose to use Open Office Writer which is similar to Word you may lose some formatting from your word documents, but most of the work will come when first converting you documents.
Microsoft says they will have the fix in place by the deadline as they are already removing the code violation from Word and Office 2007 products.
Word 2010 will be available next year and, according to Microsoft, contains none of the offending code.
Google Announces New Operating System
Search engine leader Google says it is set to change the way computer operating systems work.
This week Google announced its new Chrome OS will take on the rulers of the Operating Systems–Microsoft’s Windows and Mac’s OS X.
This Google video gives an excellent explanation of how Google Chrome will run all of your computer programs on the Internet rather than your computer.
The new operating system will look radically different from the operation systems we have a come to love and sometimes hate.
Google Chrome will turn personal computing upside down.
When graphical interface browsers such as Mosaic were first introduced in the 1990’s they were, and still are today, installed as software programs on top of an operating system.
Google’s Chrome browser, however, will run as the computer’s operating operating system rather than running on the operating system.
Google engineers say the most used software on any computer today is the Internet Browser whether it is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and more.
Google claims that the browser is the first and most important software we use. The Google guys say most of us spend 90 percent of our time on a computer on the Internet reading email, watching videos, shopping online, chatting, reading news, etc.
You will most likely see the first versions of Chrome OS installed on netbooks fairly soon.