Windows 7 users will get notifications from Microsoft about end of support

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With Microsoft pulling support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020, the company plans to remind send out push notifications to its users warning them about this development. End of support means Windows 7 and Office 2010 users will no longer get security updates for their machines. The company wants its users to upgrade to Windows 10 PCs and Office 365. While the push notification won't mention upgrading to Windows 10, it'll remind users that support ends in January and they will be linked to microsoft.com/windows7. The link will encourage users to upgrade or buy a newer PC.

According to Matt Barlow, CVP of Windows, “Beginning next month, if you are a Windows 7 customer, you can expect to see a notification appear on your Windows 7 PC. This is a courtesy reminder that you can expect to see a handful of times in 2019.” When they say handful, we don't exactly know how many times. But it'll only stop once Windows 7 support ends in January. We don't know what the notification will look like yet but it'll be similar to the Windows 10 upgrade notifications.

Source: The Verge

Microsoft pulls some updates for Office because it crashes the apps

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Microsoft’s update woes are far from over it seems. This time around, the company had to pull a couple of updates for Office 2010 suite—specifically KB2863821 and KB4461522, which were released on November 6 and November 20, respectively. Microsoft pulled the update and is asking people who’ve installed it to remove it from their systems saying users “may experience crashes in Microsoft Access or other applications.”

The other update KB4461529, which was released on November 13, is also causing crashes for Outlook but Microsoft decided against pulling this update because it also included security updates that help stop Office users’ from being attacked. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue though and is reportedly telling affected users to access Outlook from the web instead of using the app. Now, here’s to hoping this gets fixed soon.

Source: Tom’s Hardware

Review: Microsoft Word 2010

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The recently released Microsoft Office 2010 suite is not only the latest version of Microsoft’s hugely successful integrated software suite, it is also the first version to come out after Windows 7, which sold a staggering 175 million licenses to date. MS Office 2010 also with a host of cloud solutions as well as overall refinements. We focused on one of the most used applications of this suite, Microsoft Word.

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Microsoft Office 2010 is now available

Microsoft Office 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 software suites are now shipping.  Office 2010 is now available at retail stores across Canada, such as Future Shop, Best Buy, Staples; through online retailers, including Amazon.ca; and direct from Microsoft at Office.com/ca. We've been testing Office 2010 for the past week and have found it to have increased overall speed even on a lower spec netbook running Windows 7 home.

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