Kiwi Income quits National Bank centre.

Property fortunes have turned around with AMP NZ Office back in profit.

Microsoft today filed an emergency motion with a US Court of Appeal, asking it to put a hold on an injunction on sales of Word 2007 - and by extension, Office 2007, within which Word is intertwined

An August 15 ruling, by US District Court Judge Leonard Davis , ordered that Word 2007 (and, if you can find it Word 2003) must be pulled from sale in the US within 60 days, or Microsoft face a $US240 million fine.

Employees of the four-storey URS Centre on College Hill, Freemans Bay, will not be able to go into work today after fire seriously damaged their building.

A fire at the building was well underway at the building, which houses architectural and engineering firm URS along with ASB’s regional centre, when the fire service got the call.

Fire communications shift manager Megan Ruru says the fire service was called out at 1.41am this morning and at the height of the fire they had 18 fire trucks and 85 firefighters at the scene.

Microsoft New Zealand has today unleashed a new weapon in its war on pirated software: a pop-up alert tool that installs over the net, then annoys the pants off illegal Office users every two hours for 30 days straight.

Microsoft’s Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) notification app, billed as a voluntary download, is now lurking on the net, ready to install on a users’ PC when an Office automatic online update occurs, or a person downloads a new Office add-on, such as one of the free templates on Microsoft.com.

Microsoft has finally unveilled plans to attack Google's popular online Apps head on.

Google's online applications, such as Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets, and a raft of free or low-cost imitators including Zoho Business, ThinkFree and HyperOffice offer a lot of the functionality of Microsoft Office. The key difference is that they follow the software-as-a-service model, with all their programs, and the data created by them, stored and shared over the internet.