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Formula Builder for MS Word - Accounting Edition 2.0.0.1 (Windows)

Formula Builder for MS Word - Accounting Edition is a Word add-in program designed to boost productivity and save you hours preparing financial and analytical reports. It offers an intuitive interface that makes it easy to create formulas in any new or existing Word document. The program includes many time-saving...

Tags: Accounting, Brad Smith, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-13

Formula Builder for MS Word Basic Edition 2.0.0.1 (Windows)

Formula Builder for MS Word - Basic Edition is a Word add-in program designed to boost productivity and save you hours preparing financial and analytical reports. It offers an intuitive interface that makes it easy to create formulas in any new or existing Word document. The program includes many time-saving...

Tags: Brad Smith, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-13

Why we still hate Microsoft

Call it the Clinton effect. I'm not trying to be political here. But what seems to upset most people about Hillary Clinton, and Bill Clinton for that matter, is this habit of parsing. Barack Obama is not a Muslim as far as I know....

Tags: Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp., Hillary Clinton, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-28

Microsoft's Chief Counsel Brad Smith urges open source rivals to compromise on IP issues, co-exist peacefully

Microsoft's Chief Counsel Brad Smith urges open source rivals to compromise on IP issues, co-exist peacefullyJust surrender and it won't hurt at allSeriously, unless/until MS discloses which patents have been violated by which packages, their patent claims and their lawyer should be treated with absolute contempt. Furthermore, inasmuch as...

Tags: IP, Microsoft Corp., Brad Smith, open source

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

Microsoft's Chief Counsel Brad Smith urges open source rivals to compromise on IP issues, co-exist peacefully

Microsoft General Counsel and IP chief Brad Smith got a round of applause at the Open Source Business Conference Monday for showing respect to the open source community -- but he faced some tough questioning from those in the bazaar. One attendee asked how...

Tags: Software, Brad Smith, IP, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Can the Microsoft cathedral really do business with the open-source bazaar?

It sounds like the "show-down" between Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith and a panel of open-source backers at the Open Source Business Conference OSBC on March 25 didn't plow any new ground. Smith extended the same olive branch that Microsoft has been holding aloft,...

Tags: GPL, Patent, Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-26

EU emboldened; Who's next on the hit list?

Now that European regulators got their big victory over Microsoft attention should turn to who's next on their hit list. The EU case against Microsoft market position and anticompetitive behavior boiled down to two items: The ability of Microsoft to bundle its media...

Tags: Brad Smith, Red Hat Inc., Market Share, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Court, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-17

Microsoft weighs options after EU defeat

Updated: Microsoft said Monday it will take the necessary steps to comply with a European Union ruling after an appeal court gave the software giant a stinging defeat. Now Microsoft will have to share code with rivals to ensure interoperability. Specifically, The EU's second highest court backed a European...

Tags: Interoperability, Brad Smith, European Commission, Commission, Microsoft Corp., Decision, Court, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-17

Who speaks for Microsoft on open source?

Who speaks for Microsoft on open source?can't find the needle in the haystack."Microsoft is re-using the IBM playbook of *over* 20 years ago. Almost play-by-play."so are you going to say what those plays are and explain the co-relation or they are all left for someones imagination.Ex CathedraWho speaks for the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Brad Smith, open source, Bill Neukom

Discussion threads 2007-03-26

Microsoft-sponsored lobbyist to the EU: It's a mistake to floss us

Microsoft-sponsored lobbyist to the EU: It's a mistake to floss usThanks for the silver bullet...]:)Intelligent and Elegantshills . . .and the losers lobbying EU, thats considered fairIts pretty evident the business tactics used by IBM. SUN the other big loser who cant compete along with Symantec and McAfee, Adobe (who...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Abramoff, FLOSS, Brad Smith

Discussion threads 2006-10-19

Microsoft: We won't be evil, either

Microsoft has outlined a new corporate philosophy of competition that could be summed up in these familiar words: "Don't be evil". While speaking at the New America Foundation luncheon, Brad Smith, the general counsel of Microsoft said Microsoft had learned several important lessons since the DOJ's anti-trust lawsuit in 1997:"The...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Brad Smith

Blog posts 2006-07-20

Microsoft to regulators: 'OK, we'll let competitors see some Windows code. So chill!'

Microsoft will disclose some of the inner workings of Windows to competitors, in a bid to satisfy regulators both in the US and Europe, the International Herald Tribune reports. While the move may be a "bold stroke," as MS chief lawyer Brad Smith said yesterday, it's certainly not...

Tags: Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-01-25

Additional Resources

E-file flap dings Intuit tax revenue outlook

Remember that flap over Intuit's decision to charge fees for multiple tax returns and its call to rescind them? We now know what the tab was.  In an otherwise fine third quarter, Intuit revealed that the fee issues did put a dent in results. Intuit's consumer tax...

Tags: Revenue, Intuit Inc., Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?

Have we arrived in the post-Windows era?YepThe law of diminishing returns applies and the world moves on. Now to see some really innovative technology, who knows where it might come from but I seriously doubt it will be MS. Just like Sony ruled the world with the walkman (now the...

Tags: Word processors, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., post-Windows era, post-Windows

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

Intuit's chief on economy: Welcome to the 'new normal'

Intuit delivered second quarter results that illustrate that it is recession resistant, but a lot of the game plan revolves around cost cutting and innovating in a downturn. The rub: Intuit CEO Brad Smith doesn't consider the economic landscape a downturn per se, but a "new normal." ...

Tags: Revenue, Intuit Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Intuit's TurboTax printing fees raise users' ire

Intuit's latest TurboTax has only been on the market since Nov. 28, but it has been a rough go for users who are screaming over extra fees. Here's what's drawing fire: Intuit included e-file services for free, but raised its price from a year...

Tags: Intuit Inc., Return, TurboTax, Printing, TurboTax User, Turbo Tax, Desktop Pricing, Taxes, Document Management, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-09

Microsoft says crisis will impact tech

The way economists see it, there's the financial economy and the "real" economy. While Wall Street is in a genuine crisis and there's clearly been a tightening of credit, it's not clear that the collapse of the investment banks has severely impacted non-financial companies yet. But while...

Tags: Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Times repeats Google spin on Yahoo ad deal

Randall Stross, a business prof at San Jose State University, offers a full-throated defense of the Google-Yahoo pact, in the NYT today. Stross is currently working on a book called Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know and has...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Auction, Stross, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Intuit: software and services. Are you kidding me?

I must admit to have been befuddled by Larry Dignan's interpretation of Intuit's current go to market strategy as analogous to Microsoft's software plus services mantra. This is the salient quote from Intuit's Q4 earnings call my emphasis added: We’ve talked about the fact that our growth for the...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Intuit Inc., Payroll, Intuit QuickBooks, Service, SaaS Offering, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operational Accounting, Cloud Computing, Payroll Solutions, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Microsoft talks software plus services; Intuit actually does it

Intuit's fourth quarter brought the usual grab bag: A loss in a seasonally slow three months, solid revenue growth and an outlook slightly ahead of expectations. But Intuit also talked about it view of connected services and the big picture. My epiphany: Microsoft has been talking about...

Tags: Software, Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Corp., Service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operational Accounting, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Financial Accounting, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-22